It was a dark and stormy night when the young, overworked teacher sat down to grade a stack of essays, only to find an extra paper in the pile. As she began reading the mysterious submission, she realized with a chill running down her spine that it was an accurate recounting of her gruesome demise, dated for the very next day.

The school year had just begun, and it was customary for teachers to assign seats after the first few days, but every year there seemed to be a nameless student who refused to change desks. Week after week, each teacher would vanish without a trace, with nothing left behind but their belongings and the indistinguishable whisperings of classroom 216’s phantom pupil.

During a late-night tutoring session in the seemingly empty library, Mr. Thompson was shocked to see his own handwriting in a book that wasn’t his own. Upon closer examination, he discovered that it contained mysterious dates and events from his life; past, present, and horrifying future events he couldn’t recognize—yet.

Ms. Turner sadly packed up her things on her final day as a teacher at Greenwood High School, reminiscing about her favorite students who had come and gone throughout the years. As she wiped away a single tear at farewell, she found herself sitting behind locked doors in an otherwise vacant classroom; within moments of staring at her blackboard full of heartfelt messages scrawled by students and colleagues alike, all the words began to bleed physically down the blackboard – spelling two bone-chilling sentences: “You can never leave. But we’ll see you…in another life.”

On Halloween night, the adventurous teachers of Oakwood Elementary decided to participate in an after-school ghost tour of their haunted school as a team-building exercise. What started out as raucous laughter turned into terrified gasps when they heard strange noises emanating from empty classrooms followed by chilling whispers of students no longer with them, describing the exact ways their beloved teachers met their untimely end.