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Dick Merriwell Absent! or, The Spook of the School (1903) | Tip Top Weekly | Nickels and Dimes

An old tradition of almost all schools seems to be the absolute certainty 

From page 21:

Some time in the night Preston gave an awful cry of terror, like a choking groan, and Marsh awoke to find his companion entirely covered by the bedclothes. When he had dragged the fellow out, Preston was shaking like a leaf, and finally managed to ask:

“Did you see it?”

“See what?”

“The ghost!”

“Ghost--your grandmother!” snorted Marsh.

“I saw it--I saw it!” palpitated the frightened lad. “It was right here by the bed, all in white, and it was looking at me!”

“Nightmare,” said Marsh.

“No, no! I know I really saw it! Hector, I’m haunted! It was his ghost!”

“Whose ghost?” asked Marsh, who had temporarily forgotten the mysterious disappearance of Merriwell.

“Why, Merriwell.. I recognized him!”

Marsh crept away toward the edge of the bed.

“See here, Preston,” he said, “what have you done? How were you concerned in Merriwell’s disappearance?”

“Oh, don’t! I didn’t do anything! I never touched him!”

“Then go to sleep, and don’t be a fool.”

But there was no more sleep for Preston that night. He lay through the long hours, hearing the frightened beating of his own heart, suffering when the wind rose and wailed outside the window, his body cold, his heart like lead within him.

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I know, it sounds insane but! My school is not only old but located in one of, if not the, most invaded country in Europe. And I think that's saying something.

Anyways, what you also have to know is that my schools building is considered a relic, so we for example can't renovate the doors to classes because they're antique.

This leads to strange things. For example doors opening by themselves (while no windows were open in the classroom). The students joke that its the ghost of our schools creator, who shares an uncanny resamblence to a history teacher that no one is sure as to how old he is.

If I ever come back as a ghost, I wanna come back as how I looked in my final year of high school (now basically), not sure on whether school uniform or regular clothes yet, I’ll probably change them over every now and again. But I wouldn’t have the Yr11 jumper, they suck. I want my blazer from Yr10. It had a rainbow button, all my pens and handy stuff, and my Harry Potter flying key badge and my Grandma’s old ukulele badge. Also, I wanna have my my cool black backpack, with the glow in the dark Gengar face, and Totoro keyring with me.

I’ll be a really cool ghost that the students know about, and pretty much all have seen (the nice ones anyway), but the staff haven’t. So I’ll help the good students like; one get an unfair detention, do something to stop it. Things like that.

Or, if one of my faves is being bulllied, I’ll pull small harmless pranks on the bully like locking them in the bathroom stall, or distracting them in class,ect.

But I’ll never cause any unwanted/needed commotion. Everything will have a helpful outcome, and will be thought through.

And the bit about the student knowing, and not the staff, the staff have heard students talking about me, but they’ve never seen me. They,d pretty much think it’s a small prank the students are pulling on the staff, or an inside joke.

Maybe tho, if I did die before some teachers, and they’re still teaching, I’d go to some of my favourite teachers classes, and sit in their lessons. I might reveal myself to them when ready, but they’d have to promise not to tell anyone else.