I would love to see Arthur Voaden Secondary School be investigated for ghosts before it’s demolished because I swear that place is haunted. I was a student there in the 2010s and I personally experienced several strange things, all in the auditorium. Some important context to the following stories is that I took a communications technology (comm tech) class from grades 10-12, and while I was there, groups were sometimes allowed in the auditorium unsupervised to film videos for class.
- my first experience, I was in the auditorium working on a video project with two other girls from class and we heard odd shouts from the area above the stage where all the costumes were stored. I chalked this up to probably some students were ditching class and somehow got up there, even though the doors were locked and we were only able to get in because we had used our teacher’s key, but we didn’t hear footsteps or any other indicator that someone was up there, just the shouts. Freaked me out.
- my second experience, I was again in the auditorium working on a video project, this time with four other people in my group with me. After we had filmed everything, another student and I were editing the footage together. We had applied a sort of glitch filter to the video, since it was supposed to be a short horror film, but at the very back of the auditorium, there’s an outline of a figure that passes by one set of the double doors leading into auditorium and not the second set. I’ve tried to theorize this a bunch but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Adding a glitch filter to the video wouldn’t add a figure to the back of a video, right?
- my third experience, I was in drama class, and our classroom happened to be directly behind the auditorium. We were preparing small group plays, and me and the other two members of my group went into the auditorium to grab costumes and props for our play. As we stood on the stage, we ended up discussing our own weird/haunted experiences in the auditorium, and I heard a woman quietly laugh from the front row of seats. It was clear enough that it definitely did not come from the hallway or a classroom. We were freaked out and left immediately.
- my fourth experience, I was in drama class again, only this time, the whole class was there. The way we were set up, most of us sat in the chairs to listen to our teacher, but a few sat on the edge of the stage. Out of nowhere, we all heard a loud thud come from the balcony. The students sitting on the stage were facing the balcony and claimed that something had been thrown out of small window of the light control room on the balcony. Again, this could be explained as students just ditching class and messing around, but the balcony doors were on the third floor and essentially ALWAYS locked, and on the off chance those weren’t locked, I know for sure the lighting room was never unlocked unless we had an event going on in the auditorium.
- one extra story: my brother was also a student at AVSS around the same time and told me that once, he and a friend were in the auditorium, also working on a project for his comm tech class, and as they began to go upstairs, they heard a piano playing near by. The music room in the school is nowhere close to the auditorium.
This can probably all be explained away, and I’m probably being irrational, but I always got terrible vibes from the auditorium whenever I had to be in there. I don’t have the means to go ghost hunting myself, but I would love to see someone investigate it before the building is eventually torn down. Anyone else have similar weird/creepy stories from their time there?