Mesquite, Texas is Haunted

Legend has it that the land where Galloway Elementary stands once belonged to a farming family. Their homestead is supposed to be in the exact spot where the school now stands. It seems the family had twin daughters Hannah and Julia. When the girls were eight, they both fell sick with a mysterious illness that claimed the life of little Hannah.

Convinced that her daughter’s spirit was trapped in the house, their mother forced Julia to participate in seances and mirror scrying. When they were unable to reach Hannah, Julia took her own life three years later.

Here’s what I know:

At least one ghost haunts the halls of Galloway. Hannah has been seen in the windows at night wearing a white dressing gown. In what was once the sixth-grade hall students have felt cold spots attributed to her. Plus, during the Charley Charley pencil game, Angelica R. changed the words to “Hannah, Hannah.” The bathroom lights when out and the kids screamed because she appeared in the mirror.

Soon afterward a custodian quit. He claimed that one night when he was alone in the school he heard little girls giggling. When he went to check, he heard footsteps running away. But there was no one there.

The longtime PE teacher, Mr. J. Berger told a class that Hannah didn’t like other girls. That she only wanted to appear to boys. When he turned to walk into his office, an invisible force launched a hockey stick at the back of his head.

Mr. L. Bonner, a former Art teacher refused to come in to get work completed on Saturdays because of Hannah. He explained that he’d heard someone loudly knock on his door and then run away. The problem? He was the only person on campus that day.

Mx. K. Hutson (Price) told Hannah’s story to her 6th-grade classes. One day another teacher, Ms. T. Johnson had a leak, turning the ceiling tile a rusted shade of old blood. Both Mx. Hutson and Ms. Johnson climbed up on desks to remove the tile and get a better look. However, what they found was a porcelain doll in a white dressing gown. The students believed it was Hannah’s, but how could that be? She had been dead long before the school was ever built.

Once they removed the doll, the accidents started. Bloody noses, a broken leg at recess, concussions from falling out of chairs, and even a car accident in the parking lot convinced the teachers to put the doll back where they found it.

It’s been several years since 6th grade has been on the Galloway campus. They opened a new middle school and Hannah’s been quiet since they left. But maybe she’s just waiting for someone to come say hi to her in the bathroom mirror.