The halls of Jimmy Carter Early College High School may be haunted. A janitor claims it’s a child, a teacher is cautious, and a math teacher refuses to discuss it. While its identity is speculative, teachers and students alike acknowledge the existence of something unusual.
Felicia Charles, a biology dual enrollment teacher, first noticed strange occurrences in her classroom. “I would leave the classroom screen on, and when I returned the next day, it would be on Microsoft Edge with several tabs open. It kept happening until we decided to just record it,” Charles said.
Charles and math teacher Agustin Arias set up a motion-sensor camera to record overnight. From 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., the camera captured the screen: folders were opened, tabs closed, and someone—or something—physically touched the screen.
“The technician checked for viruses, and the computer was updated,” Charles said. “I don’t know. We’ve speculated maybe a bug, something hitting the screen.”
Senior Cesar Canche believes it could be an insect, though Charles insists it happens too frequently for that to be the case.
“I’m a woman of science,” she said. “But it’s nice to believe in it, especially around Halloween.”
Arias, however, doesn’t believe in ghosts, suggesting viruses cause the anomalies. Janitor Petty Medina disagrees, firmly believing the ghost is a child.
“We had an experience where I thought it was a ghost,” Medina said. “In the hallway upstairs, I cleaned everything. The next day, I saw traces, but they were very small.”
Medina said this incident occurred 12 years ago in the Jimmy Carter building. The traces convinced her they were from a little boy roaming the halls.
“I think they were from a little boy. They were only going from one room to another,” she said.
Medina claims she sees these traces about once a week. Whenever she or other janitors work after hours, they make sure to stay with a partner.
“Precaution. I’m not afraid of it, but whenever we stay, we stay together as a precaution,” Medina said.
