About:
Lost in the endless mist and fog an undying force will pull you along. Through the abandoned and tainted school, where the principal use to rule. They're all dead now, not who they use to be; resting spirits woken by insanity. But they're trapped at The Westwood, the school of horrors...AND you too will have to stay forever!
In it's second year this 1914 built school is nothing but REAL! From the inside waiting line in the buses to the rats and the roaches. Over 30 live actors take you through the real story of The Westwood. 25,000 square feet of terror take you through the haunted maze!
History:
Several decades ago everything at The Westwood seemed normal. Nobody knew the tragedy that lay just beneath the surface. No one could have ever imagined what would happen that one terrible day.
The Westwood appeared to be a normal school. Hundreds of kids would arrive every day to attend classes, participate in sports and after-school activities. Then suddenly things started to change.
Every day kids were getting sick and teachers were leaving the classrooms. No one knew what was going on or why it was happening. We are just now starting to put all the pieces together and are discovering the hidden reason for the all terror that has taken place ever since.
The water at the Westwood was somehow contaminated with a horrendous virus that is very rare. The water has since become known as “black swamp sulfur water”. Everyone in and around the building became diseased and illness was everywhere. The Health Department had to come and padlock the doors very quickly. Never did they realize that there were still people inside.
The building was condemned and boarded up. The toxic water was eating away at those left inside and they were trying to survive any way they could. There seemed to be no cure for the disease and it spread rapidly among those who remained locked inside.
no outsiders were ever allowed back in. Until Now!!!
What we have witnessed since the doors were opened after so many years is most terrifying. The smell and the decay is everywhere. The way those left locked inside had to survive was horrifying. From the looks of some of the bodies inside, there seemed to be some sort of in-breeding going on as well. The only source of food for these isolated people were the rodents and bugs running around……and their fellow, weaker students and teachers who died before them.
It was a horrendous way to live.....and die....
After much research on this subject, we have only been able to uncover the following article in an archive edition of the Bowling Green Journal (circa 1946):
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December 16, 1946 - Five years ago, Mary Stringer, a beautiful woman of 32, first stepped foot on the Westwood school grounds in order to apply for the position of the schoolhouse secretary. Due to her exceptional experience and kind-hearted demeanor she was immediately hired. Once introduced to her fellow co-workers, she encountered the man who later became the love of her life - the school house janitor.
Norman Breakahart was a short, stocky man that had dedicated nearly 20 years of his life at work for the Westwood School. He was also a married man with three children ages 7, 10, and 13, that attended the Westwood School.
What began as a harmless friendship, turned into a torrid love affair. It ended in great tragedy that would forever haunt not only Norman Breakahart, but also plague the corridors of the Westwood School and the surrounding community of Rudolph, Ohio.
Exactly one year after the arrival of Mary Stringer, plans between the two lovers were set into motion. They had agreed to meet on the last day of school and run off together, in order to get married and live the rest of their lives together. Their intention was to meet the after the last period of the day in the boiler room with their suitcases packed with their wedding apparel . Mary arrived at the agreed time...........but Norman never showed.
The next morning, Norman began his usual routine of checking in on the boiler room and to his surprise he found Mary. Her suitcase was opened at her feet with her most cherished possessions of the lover’s courtship. Mary's lifeless body was dangling from the metal rafters, wearing her wedding dress which was soaked in blood. This would be the last time Norman would ever enter the Westwood schoolhouse.
Several hours later, he was carried off by the police and taken to the local sanitarium. For the past 5 years he has remained there with the constant torture of the vision of Mary’s lifeless dangling body.
Yesterday, December 15, 1946, five years after Mary’s death, Norman Breakahart died a sudden unexpected and unexplained death. The nurses found him flat on his back with his eyes wide open. In the autopsy report, it read that Norman Breakahart died from suffocation due to an unknown black liquid sulfur substance found in his lungs.
the above is from a 1946 article found in the old Bowling Green Journal newspaper that went out of business a few years after this was published.
After speaking with several teachers, administrators and students that were alive and around when the school was shut down, it was said that you can still see visions of Mary wandering the corridors and dangling from the rafters. It is also said that soon after her death the school was shut down due to a black sulfur water plague. Some say that the black sulfur water was the curse of Mary.
So as the story goes, the poisoned tears that she wept in life and death, were oddly enough, the black sulfur water that claimed the lives of hundreds of children and faculty at the Westwood - the plague also consumed the lives of Norman's three children and wife.