School Spirits

School Spirits
Genre	Paranormal Documentary
Written by	Mora Stephens
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Burnett Seth Jarrett Julie Insogna-Jarrett
Producer(s)	Andrea DeBrito Sandy Green (sup.)
Production location(s)	United States
Cinematography	Paul Marshall (lead) Joel Vietel Christopher K. Dillon
Editor(s)	Timothy Dixon
Running time	45 minutes
Production company(s)	Realand Productions Jarrett Creative
Release
Original network	Syfy
Original release	June 22 (2012-06-22) – August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)
External links
Website

School Spirits is an American paranormal television series which airs on the Syfy channel. The first season premiered on June 20, 2012. The series features alleged paranormal encounters told through reenactments that are based on occurrences at schools and universities in America.

Summary

The series focuses on purported paranormal experiences told by students and professors at their respective schools and universities. Each episode begins with the introduction:

What you are about to witness...is based on actual accounts...from students at [enter school]...who experienced paranormal events.

Tagline:

Every campus has its secrets...School Spirits.

Promo intro:

They may have survived their first day. But their next lesson...will be deadly.

Episodes

No.	Title	Location	Original air date
1	"Sorority House Terror"	"Gamma Alpha Gamma" Sorority House, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan	June 20, 2012 (2012-06-20)
In the series premiere, ghost stories from the University of Michigan sorority house that took place in 2007 are featured. Sorority sisters who lived in a former fraternity house claim they saw the ghost of a man named Joseph Jacob Walser, a graduate of the university who once lived in the house with his family in the late 1890s. The sisters are frightened and say they feel a negative energy in the house that they believe was warded off by Walser, who had died of tuberculosis and is believed by the sisters to have returned to protect them. "Gamma Alpha Gamma" is actually the local women's organization Phi Rho Alpha Sorority.
2	"Dorm Room Nightmare"	State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York	June 27, 2012 (2012-06-27)
A former student claims to have seen a ghost who had broken his neck from hanging himself in the same dorm room the student was staying in years ago in Residence Hall C at State University of New York at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo) in 1985. The student believes the ghost had been asking for help and disappeared after he carried out a small ritual.
3	"Collision Course/Deadly Dorm Games"	"SHS" (high school), Saline, Michigan Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania	July 11, 2012 (2012-07-11)
A woman claims to be haunted by the ghost of a young man in a leather bomber jacket from the local Catholic high school who was killed in a car crash in the mid-1980s. College roommate pranksters in Mary Green Hall at Lebanon Valley College in 2002 claim to see the ghost of a little girl who was hit by a train in the 1950s.
4	"Ghostly Girls' School"	Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia	July 18, 2012 (2012-07-18)
In 2007, four friends of Sweet Briar College for women claim to see a ghost of a deceased girl believed to be the school founder’s (Indiana Fletcher Williams) daughter Daisy in their dormitory and at her old plantation house site where she died of antitrypsin deficiency at a young age. The shadowy figure of a tall man thought to be Lucien Fletcher, Indiana's brother and Daisy's uncle is said to terrorize students on campus because he is still angry that the family's inheritance went to an all-girls school instead of to him. The friends believe Daisy's spirit helps keep Fletcher's angry ghost away.
5	"Campus Warning Signs"	Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky	July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)
Becca, a conservative student at EKU (Eastern Kentucky University) claims to see a man with no eyes in a crowded hallway, a shadow figure in her dorm room and the ghost of a deceased Victorian lady during her freshman year in 2007. Her friend Stephanie gives her advice regarding the supernatural. They claim to see a black mass forming on the ceiling of the room, a little demon girl who harasses them, and a bloody woman who was murdered near the campus in the winter of 2011.
6	"Frat House Phantom"	Sigma Alpha Phi Fraternity House, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania	August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)
In the season finale, frat brothers at a fraternity house at Slippery Rock University claim to have used a Ouija board to contact spirits of people involved in the Wigton massacre of 1843.

See also

• Ghost hunting
• List of reportedly haunted locations in the world
• List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States
• Paranormal television

External links

• Spirits at syfy.com
• School Spirits at IMDb
• School Spirits at TV.com
• School Spirits at TV Guide