School Spirits (2012 TV series)

School Spirits
Genre	Paranormal Documentary
Written by	Mora Stephens
Country of origin	Template:TVUS
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Executive producers	Mark Burnett Seth Jarrett Julie Insogna-Jarrett
Producers	Andrea DeBrito Sandy Green (sup.)
Production location	United States
Cinematography	Paul Marshall (lead) Joel Vietel Christopher K. Dillon
Editor	Timothy Dixon
Running time	45 minutes
Production companies	Realand Productions Jarrett Creative
Original release
Network	Syfy
Release	June 22, 2012 (2012-06-22) – present

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 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.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD and Blu-ray release date
			Season premiere	Season finale	Region 1	Region 2
	1	6	June 20, 2012	August 1, 2012	—	—

Episode Guide

Season One (2012)

Ep. #	Episode Title	Location	Original Airdate
1.1	"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 remember their paranormal experiences of seeing 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 endure frightening experiences and 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.
1.2	"Dorm Room Nightmare"	State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York	June 27, 2012 (2012-06-27)
A former student remembers his horrifying experience with an apparition 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 after he carried out a small ritual to face the ghost once and for all, the apparition finally disappeared.
1.3	"Collision Course/Deadly Dorm Games"	"SHS" (high school), Southern Michigan Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania	July 11, 2012 (2012-07-11)
A deadly car crash in the mid-1980s involving fellow high school classmates on Old Creek Road leaves a woman feeling haunted by the victim, the ghost of a young man in a leather bomber jacket from the local Catholic high school. The ghost of a little girl who was hit by a train in the 1950s during or the ending of the Korean War and and the beginning of the Vietnam War in 1955 near a co-ed dormitory gets the last laugh when she meddles with college roommate pranksters in Mary Green Hall at Lebanon Valley College in 2002.
1.4	"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 become the victims of a ghost story featuring a spectral girl believed to be the school founder’s (Indiana Fletcher Williams) daughter Daisy, who likes to appear to the girls 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.
1.5	"Campus Warning Signs"	Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky	July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)
EKU (Eastern Kentucky University) becomes the site of paranormal activity when Becca, a conservative student sees a man with no eyes in a crowded hallway, a shadow figure in her dormroom and the ghost of a Victorian lady during her freshman year in 2007. When she befriends Stephanie, a fellow freshman who's sensitive to ghosts, she teaches her to better understand the supernatural. They investigate her dormroom and find a black mass forming on the ceiling, sees a little demon girl who harasses them and encounters a bloody woman who was murdered near the campus in the winter of 2011.
1.6	"Frat House Phantom"	Sigma Alpha Phi Fraternity House, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania	August 1, 2012 (2012-08-01)
In the season finale, a fraternity house at Slippery Rock University becomes the setting of a ghost story when frat brothers contact the spirit of a murderer from the town's violent past through an Ouija board in 2006. In 1843, Slippery Rock Township experienced a brutal multiple murder that was called the Wigton Massacre when crime was committed by a Seneca Indian known as "Sam Mohawk" who bludgeoned Peggy Wigton and five of her children.

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