A nun committed suicide by hanging herself in the bell tower. Although the tower has been sealed off for years, she can be seen looking out of the tower on occasion. The tower bell will also sound unexpectedly and candlelight can be seen in the windows.
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| Archbishop Prendergast High School – Drexel Hill, PA |
Prior to being a school, this building was an orphanage. An orphanage with a rather torrid past. Several orphans are known to have been murdered or died there as well. Some say one of the orphans murdered another. A rocking horse can be seen moving on its own. A spirit seems to be irritated if someone lingers in their space too long and the horse begins to rock back and forth.
There are certain areas of the school where some of the original rooms remain, that have major poltergeist activity. Furniture has been found to move around in different areas on their own as if at night some phantom children are very active. Sounds of children yelling and screaming can be heard in the halls at night when nobody is around. It seems the orphans of the Drexel Hill orphanage will never rest.
"Prendie" was always known as Archbishop Prendergast High School after being converted from St. Vincent's orphanage; Monsignor Bonner H.S. is the neighboring building. Your confusion might be in the fact that Prendie opened & operated as an all boy school for its first four years. Once Bonner was completed, it became the boys school and Prendie became an all girl school. In my four years at that school I never once heard the bell chime inexplicably. The rest is regarded as urban legend to the students.
ReplyDeleteI never saw a ghost nun or candle at Bonnor and Prendie.
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My grandmother grew up at Prendie and I never once heard her say anything about any of the orphans being beaten or murdered. Also, I went there for high school and love close to it now. I've never once heard the bell chime.
ReplyDeleteI graduated from there in 1971 and never heard those rumors.
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