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TELL HIM: The Chalk Message Buried Behind a School Wall
TELL HIM: The Chalk Message Buried Behind a School Wall
A chalk message reading only "TELL HIM" sat sealed inside a school wall for 120 years, pressed hard into slate in adult handwriting; the words were hidden behind a window bricked up four weeks after a teacher was found dead on a frozen pond. Why did the school board vote to brick that window with no recorded explanation, and who was the "him" the chalk demanded someone tell?
In this episode, we follow the surviving records from a small town winter in 1899 to piece together what happened around the death of teacher Ryan Wagner, the…
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