Nettleton High School Band Room

Arkansas · United States · School

Three students storing instruments in the room under the bleachers heard screaming from a gym that was locked, and assumed a Halloween prank.

The band at Nettleton High School in Jonesboro, Arkansas keeps its instruments in a room beneath the bleachers. The account comes from three friends putting theirs away early one morning, before anyone should have been in the gym. The gym was supposed to be locked and the caretaker had finished cleaning.

As they were storing the instruments they heard screaming. They ran out of the band room and into the gym, and found it locked, with no way for anyone to have got in and out.

They went back to the instruments. What makes the account worth keeping is that they had already talked themselves out of it. The band's Halloween party was the following day, and all three assumed one of the others had arranged a prank. Then it came again, and their description of the second scream is what changed their minds. Teenagers are the most sceptical witnesses in any school building, because they know exactly who would be capable of setting something like this up, and the timing here worked against belief rather than for it.

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Where is Nettleton High School Band Room located?

Nettleton High School Band Room is in Arkansas, United States.