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Haunted Elizabeth V. Edwards School will be Demolished.
Inside Elizabeth V. Edwards School, there is not much indication of life. Since the final group of students left the building in 2004, it has stayed empty. However, some school administrators think the structure, which has housed both a high school and an elementary school since it was finished in 1930, is still inhabited by a ghostly spirit.
People who used to work there claim that the “good ghost” spends her time slamming lockers, turning lights on and off, and playing 1940s music for no reason, along with perhaps a few of her deceased coworkers. The Syfy network’s Ghost Hunters, known for looking into reports of paranormal activity across the country, have taken notice of the Edwards School’s reputation as a haunted location.
The school district’s maintenance worker Art Walshe believes the ghost might be real. He claimed to have seen a ghost that appeared to be a woman wearing a floral-print dress and having her hair piled high on her head. He claimed to have seen the same woman at a different time along with a pair of khaki pants next to her, but he could not identify the person who was wearing them.
Walshe declared, “I think I spotted Ms. Edwards.” Edwards, who served as Barnegat’s first schoolmarm, was a well-known educator in the community until her passing in 1965, according to Cox.
The walls of the Edwards School are currently peeling paint. Lockers are vacant and open. The last thing left in the quiet school hallways is a stack of tangled chairs. Two of the school’s windows have the word “Help Me” inscribed across them, and voices may be heard echoing through the abandoned and haunting building. When Cox started working there in 2006, there were stories that the Edwards building was haunted. His office is just next to the defunct school. The retired New York City homicide detective dismissed the idea at the time.
“I guess I was a little bit of a skeptic,” Cox said. But, today, he’s far less skeptical.
According to Cox, Barnegat school administrators ceased hosting lessons at Edwards in 2004 because maintaining the structure…
