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THE HAUNTED LEBANON SCHOOL HOUSE · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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  Speaker 3: I do stutter. And doing this you know a week
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  Speaker 3: I have been finding new ways of communicating and ways
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  Speaker 3: you know, out in the field help my dad. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, sometimes you get a little tired and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: I can, you know, think of things. But as I
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  Speaker 3: friends' hometown ghost stories, you know, they came up with
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  Speaker 3: guys for sticking around all these years and continue to
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  Speaker 3: stick around with me. For the future because it's only
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  Speaker 3: getting bigger and better. And without any further Ado, I
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  Speaker 3: also look at one news, one good news. I'm hoping
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  Speaker 3: it'll pan out and send out a request to investigate
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  Speaker 3: this one place that we're going to talk about tonight,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm hoping they call me back because I would
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  Speaker 3: love to go in there and see how it is,
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  Speaker 3: see if we catch anything. So until then, I'm waiting
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  Speaker 3: to hear back. But until then, tonight's episode is going
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  Speaker 3: to be really cool. And so without any further Ado,
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  Speaker 3: let's sit back in those chairs, cuddle up with that
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  Speaker 3: loved ones, grab that bag of popcorn because.
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  Speaker 4: It's bites out everybody. As we start tonight's episode. There's
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  Speaker 4: something unsettling about old schools because they were once filled
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  Speaker 4: with sounds of hundreds of children, voices that echo through
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  Speaker 4: the hallways, footsteps racing across polished wooden floors, teachers calling names,
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  Speaker 4: school bells ringing. But what happens or the noises never
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  Speaker 4: truly leave. Tonight we're traveling into the mountains of southwestern Colorado,
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  Speaker 4: just outside a quiet town of Dolores, to a lonely
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  Speaker 4: building standing among fields and old cottonwood trees. A schoolhouse
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  Speaker 4: built more than a century ago, a place where history
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  Speaker 4: and legend have become impossible to separate. This is the
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  Speaker 4: story of the haunted Lebanon Schoolhouse. In nineteen o seven,
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  Speaker 4: a one room school house was built for one tiny
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  Speaker 4: farming community of Lebanon, just outside of Dolores. It wasn't
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  Speaker 4: just a place for education. It became the heart of
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  Speaker 4: the community. Church services, holiday celebrations, town meetings, school plays.
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  Speaker 4: Children gathered where almost every day. Generations grew up inside
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  Speaker 4: those walls before the school finally closed in nineteen sixty three. Later,
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  Speaker 4: the building was restored and even operated for a time
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  Speaker 4: as a bed and breakfast, preserving much of its original character.
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  Speaker 4: But old buildings remember, or at least that's what the
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  Speaker 4: stories say. Visitors began telling them strange tales, not terrifying
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  Speaker 4: at first, just odd late at night, when every guest
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  Speaker 4: had gone to bed, they would hear children laughing, not outside,
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  Speaker 4: not down the road, inside, sometimes only one child, sometimes many.
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  Speaker 4: The laughters echoed through empty classrooms before disappearing the instant
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  Speaker 4: someone opened the door. Some guests searched every hallway, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: no one, only silence, And yet moments later the laughter returns.
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  Speaker 4: From somewhere else. Reports of unexplained laughter have become the
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  Speaker 4: school's best known ghost stories.
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  Speaker 3: Then came the footsteps, slow measured, heavy walking across the
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  Speaker 3: second floor, even when there was no one else was
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  Speaker 3: staying in the building, step step step, as though through
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  Speaker 3: an unseen teacher, still talk or still walk between the desks,
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  Speaker 3: making one last round checking homework, keeping order. Guess would
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  Speaker 3: climb the staircase, flashing flashlight, shaking, only to find an
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  Speaker 3: empty hallway with the footsteps never seemed to stop. They
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  Speaker 3: simply moved into the room behind them. One woman reportedly
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  Speaker 3: claimed she was awoke in the middle of the night
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  Speaker 3: because someone whispered classes starting. She opened her eyes, standing
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  Speaker 3: in the doorway was a silhouette of a person, motionless watching.
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  Speaker 3: She reached for the bedside lamp. The figure vanished, the
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  Speaker 3: room was empty, the door was still closed. Paranormal investigators
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  Speaker 3: have long been fascinated by abandoned schools. Children leave behind immenstress,
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  Speaker 3: emotional energy, years of memories, laughter, fear, joy, loneliness. Some
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  Speaker 3: believe those emotions in print themselves upon a place, like
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  Speaker 3: fingerprints pressed forever into the old wood and brick. Wherever
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  Speaker 3: you believe that or not. The Lebanon Schoolhouse certainly inspires
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  Speaker 3: the imagination. Its original classrooms, aged hardwood floors, antique chalkboards,
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  Speaker 3: and isolated location create an atmosphere that may many visitors
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  Speaker 3: described as eerie long before the ghost stories begin. Now,
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  Speaker 3: let me tell you about one of the creepiest local legends.
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  Speaker 3: It says, if you entered the schoolhouse alone just before
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  Speaker 3: midnight and quietly write your own name across the old chalkboard,
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  Speaker 3: you'll hear another piece of chalk writing behind you, not loudly,
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  Speaker 3: just enough to make your heart stop. When you finally
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  Speaker 3: turn around, the chalkboard is empty except for one word present.
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  Speaker 3: No one knows who supportedly answers the roll call. No
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  Speaker 3: one has ever proven the legend, but according to local storytellers,
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  Speaker 3: those who hear it they never forgot the sound. Other
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  Speaker 3: tales claims that the stormy night. On stormy nights, the
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  Speaker 3: old playground becomes alive. The swings move without wind, and
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  Speaker 3: invisible children run across the yard. A merry go round
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  Speaker 3: turns and turns ever so slowly, though no one was
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  Speaker 3: there to push it, And if you listen carefully, you'll
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  Speaker 3: hear a teacher's voice calling line up everybody then silence.
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  Speaker 3: But of course there's another explanation. Old buildings settle, what expands,
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  Speaker 3: wood whistles through the forbidden cracks. Our mind filled the blanks,
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  Speaker 3: especially in places where history lingers. The Lebanon Schoolhouse has
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  Speaker 3: no document record of the tragic events often found behind
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  Speaker 3: famous hauntings. Its ghost stories are best understood as local folklore,
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  Speaker 3: pressed from visitor to visitor to visitor over the years. Still,
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  Speaker 3: if you ever find yourself driving the quiet back roads
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  Speaker 3: of Dolores and the sun begins to disappear behind the
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  Speaker 3: San Juan Mountains, you might notice a lonely schoolhouse standing
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  Speaker 3: in the fade of light, its windows dark, its halls silent,
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  Speaker 3: or perhaps not quite silent. But if the stories are true,
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  Speaker 3: the final bell never rain, and somewhere inside class is
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  Speaker 3: still in session. You know, I'm hoping that I get
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  Speaker 3: into this place because I want to see some of
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  Speaker 3: these things happening, and it's gonna be really cool if
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  Speaker 3: I do get into this, So a crossing my fingers
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  Speaker 3: and get a hold of someone that will let me
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  Speaker 3: do an investigation. I really would love to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm hoping that it'll The facts are true. If
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  Speaker 3: you enjoyed it's journey into Colorado's haunted history and folklore.
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  Speaker 3: Remember this, sometimes scariest places ain't the abandon because they're empty.
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  Speaker 3: They're abandoned because something never left. I hope you liked
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  Speaker 4: Keep it spook my friends.
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  Speaker 3: Until then, this is Joe the Ghost Guy. You're from
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  Speaker 3: a neighborhood investigator signing off. Goodbye my friends, and God
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