Kate Hackett
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A girl in my Econ Class lost her dad but a rumor started going around that he didn’t die…he was arrested as a serial killer. Turned out to be true and was featured a few years ago on “Evil Lives Here” show.
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In middle school, there was a rumor my 7th-8th grade Social Studies teacher owned a pet donkey. Turned out to be true. The donkey’s name was Pedro the Donkey.
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In Elementary (about 15 years ago), our favorite school teacher didn’t come back after a summer break. He was awesome… Just a great role model to have around when you are a kid.
Rumors went round that his wife and daughter died in a car accident. No one believed it. It was just what kids said on the playground. Then I went to the local grocery store with my Mom… [and] saw my old teacher. He was a shell, a wreck. I asked parents of my friends, and they confirmed the rumors.
[H]e committed suicide a couple of years ago. Same bridge that his wife and daughter died on all those years ago.
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There was actually a rumor like that at a college near where I live. Turns out the rumor was confirmed a while back when there was a serial stalker who would sneak into the girls’ dorm rooms and jack off while they slept. I wish I was making this up. When he inevitably would wake them up, he’d jump out the window (they were all on the first floor) and run into a back door that led to the steam tunnels underneath the campus. It was how he was able to get away so easily when the cops tried to do a sting operation.
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We had heard an underclassman (she was 15-ish) was sleeping with a local army guy, but nobody really believed it until the day our school got locked down bc her boyfriend showed up with a knife. The boyfriend (in his thirties) was intending to force her go get an abortion, but our principal was a badass who locked her in his office, then took the boyfriend DOWN and held him in a headlock until the cops arrived.
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It wasn’t really a rumour, more of an open secret. One of our English teachers was in the IRA.
One of our history teachers once showed us a documentary about the early years of the Troubles, mainly the Civil Rights Movement. And sure enough, in the film, you can see our English teacher standing holding a rifle without even a mask on him. At that point it wasn’t really a secret anymore.
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That a specific history teacher was a Vietnam vet and had severe PTSD just waiting to be set off. One day we watched the D-Day scene (beaches of Normandy) from Saving Private Ryan while studying WWII. That day, class was 20 minutes of movie, and 35 minutes of him sobbing under his desk while everyone sat there awkwardly in silence… All his other classes for the rest of the day were cancelled and he “took some vacation time” for a month or so after that.
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A very popular, older man that taught Honors History at my high school — he looked like Doc Brown from Back To The Future and was just as eccentric. There was always this rumor though, not to piss him off, as he was like Bruce Banner and could go Hulk in a second.
Well, one day in between periods, a massive fight broke out in the hallway. [Four] of the toughest guys just kicking the [expletive] out of each other. We all stop to watch of course. Then, out of nowhere, Mr. H just appears and starts cleaning … house! In about [five] seconds, [two] kids on the ground, and [two] pinned up against lockers.
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There was a rumor that this kid helped murder a guy during a robbery.
It was a small town, and the day after the robbery/murder it seemed like everyone at school was talking about this kid being involved.
Someone else was convicted, an older former student, and the rumor sort of faded out. We all graduated, some of us moved away, and the rest of us avoided the psycho.
A decade or so later, he was arrested and convicted of the murder when his accomplice flipped on him to get parole.
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There was a rumor that there were tunnels underneath the school and that they went across the whole campus.
There were, in fact, tunnels underneath the school. My dad and his buddies found an entrance covered by some bushes when they were throwing around a football. The thing was bolted up with chains, so they drove into town, bought some bolt cutters, came back, and found their way into the tunnels.
The tunnels spanned most of the school, and were relatively clean, as he tells it. They mostly just led to janitor closets and storage rooms around campus. He used them to pull pranks when he attended. Wasn’t ever caught, but the administration figured that him and his crew knew about them, at least.
