Mary Moore- The ghost of Wykeham Colligiate

When I first came to TWC in grade five, I asked my friends who the lady in the painting in Geekie Hall was. They told me that Mary Moore had been murdered, and the knife was still in her desk...Then a few of the older girls managed to open it (not saying who!) and found nothing in it. But there is still a ghost........One time when I was sleeping over at school for a sort of camp, last year, we went to go shower etc in the BE, and then I was the last one, and I went down Geekie Hall as a shortcut. I looked at the painting. The eyes DO follow you, I normally avoid looking at it! That night, I did and I looked behind me and saw a white figure floating and glaring at me. It was standing still, though. I walked side to side and the eyes followed me.......I ran away back to where everyone else was, and it turns out that very few people have actually seen it, but people have, which proves it real......

School ghost

In high school, the principal's son was a good friend. He had a master key to the school, and at night the school was our playground. In the dark it is VERY creepy. Ons night we rolled a large metal ball bearing down a 100m dark passage. 10 Minutes later when we passed the place the bearing was rolled from, the same bearing came rolling out of the darkness and came to rest EXACTLY at our feet. We were sh*t scared!

St Johns

Hi 'SJC',

Thanks for the comment! The story is actually about St Johns DSG which is a girls' Anglican School in Pietermaritzburg.

But I'm sure both schools are equally haunted - please share any stories that you may have.

Warm regards,

Kelly :)

Mother Margaret

At the risk of attracting puerile comments from some sectors, can I ask whether the "St John's" referred to is the most awesome and fantastic school in all of Gauteng, possibly even South Africa, situated in Houghton, Jhb? If so, why would the story refer to 'Jenny' sleeping in a 'junior dorm' and 'older, younger and naughty girls'??
SJC is a boys school, with girls allowed at post-matric level.
As for hauntings - SJC has some of the most impressive old buildings, but also had the Crypt chapel, underneath the main Chapel, the Delville Wood Cross in the main chapel, and many dark passages and eerily quiet (at night) day/boarding houses.
Stories of hauntings are not uncommon AT ALL

My Old School

I grew up in Ladysmith (KwaZulu Natal) back in the 60's and 70's. The old Ladysmith high school was haunted, and I believe until today it's still haunted (too scared to go back and check). We used to sit in class and you could hear soldiers marching on the wooden floors and the slate stoep's, and you would get that hairy feeling in your neck. I would still love to go back and check my old school, and have a chat to those old soldiers.

woodridge college

I went to woodridge college just outside PE, over looking Vans Stadens bridge that is infamously known for all the suicides that have taken place there. There is one host there, Carted House, that is just next to the bridge and can be seen from alot of the dorms. Many of my friends that stayed in the dorm say that late at night when you listen, you can hear the screams of people jumping. And when staying alone in the dorm, many people have head foot step and banging on the walls. Very creepy! :)

some kid hung himself at my

some kid hung himself at my old hostel

stirling high school in east london in the eastern cape

they say he did it because of ill treatment by the super intendent of the hostle and his wife the matron

Krugersdorp High

I was there too, but I hate to say it - there never was a hunched back maintenance guy who died in the back stair well. It was just the seniors messing with our heads. Terrified juniors are obedient juniors...

hauntings

I used to go to St John's in the 70's and early 80's. I was a boarder there and knew only too well about Mother Margaret. We even had a Mother Margaret night where we dressed up and ran aroound the dorm petrifying each other. One year I hid under my bed because I was so scared

PBHS

Pretoria Boys High School is over a hundred years old and was also used as a field hospital during the Boer War. Gamtoos is apparently one of the ghosts that roams the school. I was in boarding school for five years and didn't come across much, but the school is filled with so much history there is bound to be some spirts/ghosts! Pupils and masters fought in the first and second World Wars and I'm sure we''ve got a few of them walking the corridors of the school building and the boarding houses!

forest

forest high school, no-one would go swimming at night in the pool. let alone walk around in the school at night.

Haunted schools - Krugersdorp High

I went to Krugersdorp High School which was built in 1903 and it has a hostel where the ghost nicknamed "Hunchie" roams the dorms at night. Room 13 of the girls hostel is also apparently haunted after a student died there in the early 1940's. Really interesting stories and legends are told of Hunchie's excapades.