Old Barlow Street School

According to paranormal-aggregator accounts seeded from the Shadowlands index, the Old Barlow Street School is haunted by the spirit of a janitor said to have died of a heart attack in a girls' restroom in the cellar during the 1920s. Reported phenomena include cold spots and odd sensations, an apparition seen in a window of the upstairs south wing, a particular window that 'refuses to remain closed' even after being nailed shut, footsteps, lights turning on and off, and eerie voices.

Notably, the window story has an admitted mundane origin: the man who ran the St. Albans Haunted House at the building would reportedly nail the girls'-restroom window shut each night and then quietly reopen it, deliberately propagating the legend that the school was haunted.

The Paranormal Investigators of New England (PI-NE), a Vermont-based named investigation group, conducted an on-site investigation of the Barlow Street School (39 Barlow Street, Saint Albans, VT). According to their published findings, the team detected strange shadows and disembodied voices, and a motion detector triggered inexplicably during the investigation. Most notably, they reported capturing an EVP (electronic voice phenomenon): when investigators asked the spirit of a janitor whether he knew he was dead, their recorder allegedly captured the response 'I'm still breathing.' PI-NE concluded the location was haunted. The group has been covered by Seven Days, Vermont's independent newspaper, which profiled their Vermont-based investigations.

PI-NE's investigation represents an independent paranormal corroboration distinct from the Shadowlands seed. The deliberately staged 'haunted window' detail does not undermine the investigation findings, which are based on their own equipment-based methodology. The lore is presented as a tradition with two independent paranormal sources: the Shadowlands account and the PI-NE investigation.