School Number 4 + Nightmare Basement

Riverside Park School was originally a boxy wooden-frame school house built in 1891 with multiple additions (due to population increase) until it was considered a fire hazard and unstable. Duval County voters passed a $1,000,000 bond issued in 1915 to build more than a dozen new brick school houses. This one was first known as Public School Number Four but later was renamed Annie Lytle Elementary School, after its former long-time teacher and principal. It was started in 1917, Designed by architect Rutledge Holmes, built by Florida Engineering and Construction Company, and Completed in 1918 . It cost over $250,000 and originally overlooked Riverside Park, before the construction of I-95 & I-10 isolated it in the 1950's.

In 1960 the last student passed through those front doors and the school was closed to the public. It was used for office space and storage after that before being condemned in 1971 and abandoned. It may have also been rented out to a catholic school for a year or two in the early 70s or late 60s but is not confirmed. The dominant architectural feature of the school is a Neo-Classic pedimented portico supported by colossal Doric columns at the entrance. Time also has taken its toll on the Annie Lytle School. There was a fire in 1995, the roof on the auditorium caved in and the building has been vandalized for years. It has served as a shelter for the homeless, countless thrill seeking youths, paranormal investigators, gang activity, druggies, and rummeredly even a group of hippies long ago.

On October 29, 1999 Foundation Holding Incorporated purchased the property in order to build "Lytle Place Condominiums" in its place. Due to public outcry and pressure from multiple historic societies Jacksonville approved historic landmark designation in 2000. It has sat in its current state of disrepair as I-95 & I-10 overpass/ exchange was built only a few hundred feet from the second story windows. The cost of rehabbing the structure was deemed too much as compared to demolition and new construction so it is currently back up for demolition with little fight left from the Historical Societies which originally opposed those actions after seeing the projected 3 million dollar price difference as well as only an 85% inhabitable space as opposed to new construction plans with 98%.

Many rumors surround the school that tell of murders, psychotic janitors, suicidal teachers, affairs, and explosions in the boiler room. Police reports only confirm that a rape did happen once the school was condemned and many different counts of trespassing, vandalism, and B&E have and continue to happen.

I went to this school multiple times but I had a camera mishap which left most of my photos unusable but I went back the next day. We made it in the same place I have used multiple other times and explored the schools multiple rooms and stories. As always my favorite places are the Auditorium with one sinking window and this one overgrown hallway on the second story with ferns in the window.

We spent some extra time looking around for a way into the basement which we found two holes. One had a 15-20 foot drop and the other with what looked like a 10 foot drop but actually turned out to be only 4-5. Somehow it created an optical allusion at the hole in the classroom floor. Kuri just went for it and jumped down then was standing there with his head sticking up through the hole in the floor. We laughed a bit then handed down the equipment and joined him. This was an unusual basement not counting that is in Florida. The bottom is sand and the height varies from 3-4 feet all the way to 15-20 feet from either sand filling in the building or it sinking. Unlike most basements it was not one room but many different rooms separated by nice red brick walls and arched entries which created the effect of a labyrinth.

Random pipes or roots jut out from the walls causing you to crawl around almost on all fours the entire time. The longer hallway pictured was 4 or less feet high and left me nearly crawling as I am 6'3. The Size of the basement and the labyrinth feeling that all of the twists and turns gave it makes me think that is extends between the buildings wings and maybe a bit beyond the building itself. We got slightly lost in the catacombs (hehe) below the school and for a bit I was alone taking pictures with no outside light and my Maglight cut off. It was very creepy only feeling the slightly cool breeze in the pitch blackness.

Then I found the archway for under the auditorium which had the creepy BEWARE sign above it and only left enough room to crawl through by myself into the darkness. I found my way into the "Boiler Room" which used to have an outside entrance but it was welded and bricked over. I was greeted with something from every childhood nightmare or horror movie. I could not help but take pictures and use my lights to create evil effects.

Waiting in the darkness for the 30 seconds of exposure to finish on my camera we could not help but laugh and giggle nervously about how creepy everything was and how this was the site where the explosion happened and killed the people above.

All of my light sources got used for effect so we all sat in the darkness with a few shivers going up my neck as I took each picture.

This is defiantly a place I would not go without company. My mind would torture me.

CartLegger: 24th Sep 2009 - 23:38 GMT

Awesome! Lets all sing along: urbex urbex all around/roof please don't fall on me!

Sanzay: 25th Sep 2009 - 01:25 GMT

Those scenes might be a good inspiration for a game designer or writer.

ntatap: 25th Sep 2009 - 01:51 GMT

Very cool photos. Do any of the classrooms still exist?

Peter: 25th Sep 2009 - 03:00 GMT

damn! you get props for this one... i think these sorts of posts are amongst my favorite here.

that first shot is awesome, as are the innards. i love how places like this are always covered with that same sort of random heavy-metal-esque angst graffiti inside, no matter where you go, hahaha.

nice. id love to know more, too...

YourMainParadox: 25th Sep 2009 - 14:05 GMT

Yes there are several pictures of classrooms and the hallways that show the doorways to classrooms.

the group : 30th Sep 2009 - 21:57 GMT

dude im going in their in a few weeks wish me a lot of luck

kr: 7th Oct 2009 - 21:51 GMT

i was looking out the window in pic. number 20 and in the frame you can see a small green blob that looks like a face.

Alida: 11th Oct 2009 - 01:53 GMT

I drove through I-95 in JAX today and this condemned building caught my attention. So as soon as I got home I googled PUBLIC SCHOOL NUMBER FOUR and found these pictures. Wow, they are great. Love the light and spots taken with your camera. It intrigues me more and wish to find more pictures of this building when it was a functioning school. Thank you for the pics.

Diana: 11th Oct 2009 - 18:31 GMT

Wow, amazing pictures. I really want to know the story behind this building!

coolio: 23rd Oct 2009 - 22:30 GMT

omg so awesome you should check out warehouse#31

jaxlover: 26th Oct 2009 - 04:24 GMT

school 4 is amazing truely. try going at like 2am, thats really enough to scare you senseless, lol. but after a few times, it feels peaceful, and i love it. if your driving on I95 if you look on the roof my dads name 'stephen' is written in red. hes one of the few who made it up there, but its hard. i was so scared watching him balance on the tippy top like where the auditorium is, those walls. D: i was so nervous, and props for you actually making it to the basement, mot of these reporters dont go down. and did you see an actual entrance anywheres to the basement?

DOC: 27th Oct 2009 - 01:04 GMT

how would you feel on this building being turned into a music venue/bar/hangout with XBOX's TV's and an art gallery? please email me your oppinions at xxx_angel_of_life_xxx@yahoo.com

anon (adsl-070-145-177-065.sip.jax.bellsouth.net): 22nd Nov 2009 - 23:41 GMT

WOW these stories are soo awesome i want 2 know so much more
and i wonder how it felt bein in a room of dead souls.......
scary !!!!!!!!! i got creaped when i saw / read these pics
/ stories but i REALLY

cory aka purp: 29th Nov 2009 - 09:38 GMT

i went to school four 11/20/09 3am. it was a little scary at first. but after the first floor walk threw you get use to it. we made our way to one of two holes in the floor. it was the bigger one, thats located in a classroom. two of the people we came with stayed behind. and the rest keept goin. we found the fernace in the oppisite end of the bassment from where we came in at. i found a desk burried in the dirt in the center of the biggest room down their, it was kinda wierd because i got to thinking later of why and how it made its way down their. i mean i was the first to disturb it in what looked like 20 years or so. it was burried, for real, i had to dig it up. after that we found the second small hole thats leads up to the auditorium. after that we went upstairs to tryin get on the roof but no such luck. we found a way in one of the classes then to the sub attic but

james: 13th Dec 2009 - 21:28 GMT

i have been to school 4 many times over the years, the boiler room has been flooded for as long as i can remember and the smell adds to the creepiness, i have never been in the daylight but after seeing this i just might have to

summer: 14th Jan 2010 - 01:55 GMT

the story follows this school it was sometime in the 1957 the school was new all the children who went to detention,suspended,or refrells went to a clset and stay there for a day the princalbe will call there mom and say they were staying after school the janioter or somebody take you to a room called THE BOILER ROOM and you burn there one day the fire went up too high and burned every room in the school today they say... the sprits still haunt the school

db: 15th Jan 2010 - 02:32 GMT

been there too many times to count. after a while the novelty wears out but I'll admit I've been creeped out a few times when I first started going.
I live in middleburg now but next time I get a chance I want to go again.

peaceloveandanarchy: 16th Jan 2010 - 20:33 GMT

You do know that there wasn't ever an explosion in that building right?
No one died. I've been in that school over 16 or 17 times, sometimes at night. There isn't anything creepy about it. It's just dark. The boiler room is directly underneath the stage, but I'm sure you knew that. And the hole in which you got down into the basement from, that room was actually the school library. Based upon the floor plans I've obtained there are I believe 17 classrooms, and the property is a total of 1.29 acres.

purplelover217: 4th Feb 2010 - 13:35 GMT

i haven't been there yet but some of my friends have and they say its scary and weird and it smells really bad. ive always wanted to go cuz that would be like wicked awesome nd maybe i will.....yay

jessica: 1st Mar 2010 - 21:40 GMT

So listen, i was just there at that school this past friday and its fun but its intense and we went all up in that place and that is not sand on the basement floor & boiler room my friends that is straight ash dead peoples ashes. deff. dont go there unless u got more than 4 people with you, real talk .

lindsey: 5th Mar 2010 - 03:02 GMT

we passed this place on the bus going to a tennis match & looking at your pics & reading your story just make me wanna go even more!!!!!

clint: 5th Mar 2010 - 07:55 GMT

NO LIE! Lived in jax my whole life and went to school 4 twice. Once with 2 other guys and 3 girls at about 16 yrs old. Pried the wood blockade from the ground level window in the auditorium jumped down to sand floor shined light down right where i landed was a newspaper dated 1983 being about 26 yrs old but totally intact. Walked around with 5 others up to the classrooms with some having old blackboards and i recall chairs or small desks. The basement is the craziest part of the place. It is sand floor with concrete archways u walk under and pitch black except 2 flash lights. One memory i will never forget!! AFTER SCHOOL 4, OUT TO KINGSLEY PLANTATION TO THE OLD SLAVE QUARTERS AFTER 3AM. AWESOME TIMES

Christynn : 20th Apr 2010 - 21:04 GMT

My husband and I wanted to go. What's the best way in?

toni: 22nd Apr 2010 - 21:08 GMT

i do not want go public school number four there said is haunted. And i scared of spirit i even afraid of my grand parent spirit. And second it to dangerous to go in you can get hurt meet a gang member anything. i been look a show call A haunting. if the school is haunted it probably a entity in the school maybe a demon or something

geraldine kim hammond: 24th Apr 2010 - 14:49 GMT

I think that the school is very much haunted and that it was wrong for all the childen to die.But they have the right to haunt the school!!!

Christynn : 27th Apr 2010 - 15:54 GMT

Hey Toni, proofread. You sound like an 'I can has cheezburger' cat.

Charlatte: 30th Apr 2010 - 07:51 GMT

wow! thats weird i seen the green blob in the window in image 20 it is a face. maybe its a ghost of a student that got killed in there. ive heard so many stories about this school i wonder if there true.how will anyone ever know the real truth about what happend in this school number 4? i guess only god knows the real truth.

Charlatte: 30th Apr 2010 - 07:54 GMT

oh and by the way ive never been to school number 4 and im to scared so i will not ever go to school number 4.

Brady: 3rd May 2010 - 19:29 GMT

I went last Saturday night at midnight. Its a very cool place. Very scary and authentic. I highly reccomend going. You can walk right in. There are several doors with no doors in them so you walk right in. There is also a hole in the fence. I was surprised how easy it was to get in. Well worth it, im so glad I went!!

Kelly C: 5th May 2010 - 16:35 GMT

I went there about 10 years ago when I was in high school. It was super creepy but I was with a few friends. Some others had come to join us later and we didn't know. They hide down in the boiler room and were making scary noises and banging on pipes. I almost peed my pants :)

blakebohman85: 8th May 2010 - 04:36 GMT

me and my girl friend just went their tonight. and luckily when we pulled up these other teenagers were their and gave us a tour around the place.
i will say that the place is not haunted in my opinion. its very clasutriphobic tho in the basement, being that im 6'4" and having to crouch the whole way ringed my back lol. i have seen video on youtube and video that my friends step brother recorded. in the video you see numerous times a young black kid peeking around the corner and him looking like hes saying shoooo... you also see what appears to be a very skinny white male just standing near the bathroom.
i did my own evp work and came up with nothing. probly because the ppl we were with were loud. but this is a cool place. if you really want to be scared go to black creek cemetary or the slave graves.

THICKMADAME04: 16th May 2010 - 05:42 GMT

WHERE IS BLACK CREEK CEMETARY OR SLAVEGRAVES?

Enesird: 1st Jun 2010 - 14:32 GMT

I just went there yesterday during a thunderstorm. Snapped some photos but none more disturbing than this one I put on my flickr page. http://www.flickr.com/photos/50613823@N05/4659984446/

Carissa: 10th Jun 2010 - 22:23 GMT

I live in Texas now... Used to live in Florida, when i drove on the bridge almost right above it, i asked my aunt, she took my to the library and we looked it up... There are legends that say if you actually enter the building, you will get killed. I just thought about this, so i looked it up and here it is... It really does bring back memories, cause i am adopted. When i lived in Florida, i had nightmares about this place every night. Probably going to have one tonight... Grrrrrr.

Sean: 16th Jun 2010 - 05:06 GMT

i went to school 4 the other night with my friend if you look at the southside facing i 95 my friend and i kicked out a wooden window and another one in a classroom on the northside they havent fixed it yet but anyways im from south florida and everyone from jax tells me bout school 4 so my friend and i ran in with two by fours and started wacking everything we found some gothic kids on the roof doing some demon shit i ran up there and told them i was the demon they sumoned they all ran like rats the creepy thing is i saw floor but then fell from a ledge luckily i graped the edge and my friend pulled me up another creepy thing i encountered was when i sat alone in the auditorium i could here someone breathing i walked over to thw hole or the basement and heard some kids laughing ive never been down there but i wana go next time

brittany: 27th Jun 2010 - 04:24 GMT

First time going to the school i was a little skeptical on what is believed to be paranormal and 99% chance i believe it has a lot of paranormal I went it to the building all there was is writing on the walls my friend took a picture and there was an outline of a teacher or administrator walking she was old and colored with glasses i was pretty freaked out and i got voices on my phone i recorded the whole time I also noticed i had 3 big scratch's on my leg it looks like someone clawed me i diddnt have them before i went in so yes and we were alone me and my uncle and his girlfriend she was in front of me and i heard a faint guy voice say " hi there" creepy and my uncle 10 sec later he said did you hear that and i was like what and he described the same exact thing im not stupid i know what i heard if you wanna know more email me brittany_katelynn@yahoo.com well let me hear your story. im going back thats for suree ( : bye

Brittany: 30th Jun 2010 - 17:47 GMT

third time going there im never ever going back i got hit in the back by a wooden board and there was no one behind me we went in the boiler room scary room you can smell the resin from the fire its gross they did so many satin worships there i felt so effin weird when i got home it felt like there was someone watching me very scary dont go there

Andrew: 1st Jul 2010 - 13:04 GMT

I was at school 4 last night at about 10 pm. Me and two other friends were there for about 30 minutes. We walked around the school, the auditorium, the lower level and the boiler room. Nothing really special there except maybe the auditorium and the lower levels where the boiler room is. A lot of cool graffiti but I didn't experience anything scary or paranormal. The lower level was indeed eerie and creepy because it was pitch black and very wet and humid(from all the bad weather we have been having). The boiler room is kind of eerie because i think its the lowest lever room you can get to and you basically have to crawl or walk with your head down in the lower level due to all the hanging pipes and stuff. And after you approach the boiler room, you see a beware sign and someone wrote hell with an arrow pointed the hole(very silly, yes i know). Anything being the type of person i am, I, of course, went in to the hole(boiler room) with a friend. Just an old broken down boiler and yet again a bunch of graffiti all over the place and a weird yet disugsting smell filled the boiler room most likely from all the humidity. Thats about the jist of my experience at school 4. I would go back anytime if someone could meet up with me there and prove me wrong. But after what i experience, not haunted, not possessed, it is just another broken old comdemned building withering away in the sands of time. www.myspace.com/str8rippin904 if you would like to hear more details of my story =]

Harriet : 1st Jul 2010 - 14:28 GMT

I have never been there, but my friend and I have been wanting to go before she left on vacation. We where supposed to go with her mom, these stories only makes me want to go even more. The only one that sorta makes me think twice is the experience that Brittany had.

jamie: 25th Jul 2010 - 21:28 GMT

are u kidding harriet? wht brittany said makes it feel more real. i think it would be awesome!!!! i wanna go so bad

Fred Padgett: 1st Aug 2010 - 21:02 GMT

I have many fond memories of school 4 and riverside park. I grew up down the street from the school prior to the interstate system being developed. It was such a nice area of town to live in. 1950 -1956 I believe the school should be torn down and the bricks sold as special memory keepsakes to those of us who still remember when the world was a much nicer place.

j.sanford: 2nd Aug 2010 - 03:53 GMT

I have great memories of this place, it would be a shame and a loss if this place was torn down!!!!

austin: 3rd Aug 2010 - 20:48 GMT

I went to school 4 on 08/02/10 at 2:30 wit a couple of my friends and we were goin to try to go through the front but we could so we walked to the back of the building and then there was a guy .we went through the window wit a rope on it and then we got in and a couple of my friends went in to the boiler room and my friends dad would let us so we walked through the whole building Stoping to look in just about every room.i would like to see pictures when the school was still in service.this place is verycool

Tristan: 6th Aug 2010 - 21:16 GMT

In the third photo the name above the door frame, Anthony Pianus?
I've known that kid for a coupla years now LOL

jr: 20th Aug 2010 - 01:48 GMT

i went to school 4 and i was looking for the basement entrance but just found a big hole in the ground but other than that it was freaking cool

Danielle: 26th Aug 2010 - 17:19 GMT

My husband used to go there and play paintball with his friends and he said one time him and another buddy of his were on the second floor and he saw a shadow run in front of him, he thought it was his friend, but when he shot at the shadow it went straight through and hit the wall. After a second he yelled out to his friend to ask if he'd seen it but he saw his buddy running down the stairs, when my husband got outside with his buddy he ask'd why he ran, he said he saw a ghost! LOL crazy, but eerie!

josh: 8th Sep 2010 - 05:15 GMT

your story and photos suck i would do a much better job

josh: 29th Sep 2010 - 19:04 GMT

you know the silver 4:20 clocktower on the chimney... yea thats my homies, try and smoke a blunt there.

Columbia Paranormal: 2nd Oct 2010 - 08:05 GMT

We were at that school back in 2008, its not that creepy just a few weird things such as a phone ringing, a child laughing, one person had their hand grabbed like a child wanting to hold on, folks not showing up in pics on the stage area, and no critters of any kind even spiders. the boiler rm was not scarey ata ll or the tunnels either. our pics are on our facebook site at columbia paranormal research society.

libbyann johnson: 14th Oct 2010 - 21:46 GMT

me and three of my closest friends are planning to go there and spend the whole night in the boiler room...i really hope all those stories are just rumers...i cant wait to go there. we are gonna be doing research and calling out to the 'ghost' that may be there.....so excited!

Aubrie: 17th Oct 2010 - 19:33 GMT

i dont get what is "soooo" scary about it... or is it not supposed to be? it looks just like an abondoned school( which it is) but u go nside and whats supposed to happen? is it supposed 2 b scary or sumthing?

joey: 17th Oct 2010 - 20:21 GMT

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matt: 17th Oct 2010 - 22:51 GMT

I went to school 4 a few years ago with 3 buddies. We found a weak spot in the fence and used that to crawl under. Once on the property we went around the back of the building to the north side. There used to be a window that had the board removed and all you had to do was shimmy between the building and a tree and hop up to the second level. Anyways, we didn't make it down in the basement, im a big dude, and that's a small hole lol. From what I understand after the school closed it actually became the school department for a short time. I don't believe the school is haunted with the spirits of the "dead" but there has been a lot of satanic worship and rituals performed there and I think over time, they may have pissed something off. The auditorium was way creepy at night because all you could see of the stage was the front edge, everything beyond that was pitch black. The scariest thing that I experienced was what looked like a shadowy serpent crawling along the back wall of the school as we made our way out. When we got back to campus, a wican friend of mine told me that was a symbol of satan and that she wouldn't ever talk to me again if I went back. That was enough to scare me out of the place for a while. Im gonna try to go back during the day with my sony digital SLR camera and snap a few shots. Im worried they're gonna tear the place down before someone can document some of the awesome graffiti ... and cause I hope to have some more creepy experiences. We also made it up tothe roof through a window in a second floor classroom, nothing too eerie up there other than the pentagram waaaaaaay up on the smoke stack. OH OH OH!!! And on our way out thru the window we came in thu, we found a fresh wet puddle of blood in the doorway. Creeped us way the fuck out especially when we saw the serpent thing on the back wall. We bolted under the fence and saw a little blood splatter outside of our car, and next to the dumpster in the parking lot across the street from the south side of the building. Email/aim for more info mhm87@aol.com

Aubrie: 18th Oct 2010 - 00:38 GMT

how do u get there? i need to no cuz me and my best friend r goin the nite b4 halloween and her mom is taking us how do u get there?

matt: 18th Oct 2010 - 18:17 GMT

I take I-95 north to the park street exit. Once you get to the botom of the ramp, go straight thru the stop light and the school is directly ahead of you. The road curves right and there's a parking lot on the immediate right. Good luck!!!

cole mcgill: 29th Oct 2010 - 12:04 GMT

my sisters friend went there and they said they saw lights behind them so they ran they thought it was cops so they get home and there doors and windows slam open and close there terrified of that place now thats crazy if its true

Maxi: 29th Nov 2010 - 04:08 GMT

me and a group of friends went inside. two girls and five guys. we all were rdy because everyone from school has alrdy been. the girl driving almost wrecked getting there because the sheer creepiness of it. we all went in and all had our fair share of shivers and giggles. fun night

Ariesss.: 11th Dec 2010 - 19:03 GMT

hahah, the last pic has the words 'snow bunny' written on there. i forgot i put that there a while back.

brian maysonet : 19th Dec 2010 - 23:22 GMT

bro i just past by the high school number four while my uncle was takin pic of it and that chiz looked scary.

zandria: 10th Jan 2011 - 17:31 GMT

im doing a paper on school four. and me an my friend want to go an get pictures but we dont no what will happen if we get cought. but we are still going no matter what. i have been obssessed with this school since my dad told me stories about it when i was yonger.

Catholic School Attendee: 10th Jan 2011 - 21:16 GMT

I attended school there in the 70's when it was a Catholic School. It was creepy then, I remember my class room being to the right of the large front doors, maybe the first or second window. We had nuns who would take us to the auditorium where we had recite from the bible and sing... I wasn't Catholic. It was an odd experience, but my teacher was recommended to my parents at the time. I was taken out after about 1/2 year in, not wanting to go back and crying for them not to send me back to that school.

zandria: 11th Jan 2011 - 12:29 GMT

@catholic school attendee

do you remember any weird things happening while you where there. i would like to use you in my project. is that ok?

caleb: 12th Jan 2011 - 19:22 GMT

my friends brother went there and they said they heard voice saw sacrifieced animals on the auditorium stage and saw that grim reeper doll in the window. they were chased out by a kid carrying a metal pole that looked like a santanist i saw the pics they are creepy!!!

Dontworryboutit: 30th Jan 2011 - 21:34 GMT

I went by myself at night snd it was pretty scary. I kept hearing footsteps. I even heard a little girl voice saing help me. The whole place is pretty intense.

Ravegirl: 1st Feb 2011 - 02:16 GMT

@caleb can you email me and tell me more about that please cheyenne_dewitt@att.net

Blahblahblah: 12th Feb 2011 - 22:48 GMT

Really wanting to go to this place, seems very interesting. Then again, I am into all the paranormal activity.. if there isn't, don't really want to go. Anyone ever got caught for traspassing?

bradley williams: 14th Feb 2011 - 00:21 GMT

i found this very interesting. ive been there a couple times and ive experienced some weird things. but nothing that will make me think this place is haunted or anything like that. well i like how u keep it straight and to the point. you didnt say it was haunted oranythingyo just said that youve been there and made a website. thnx

Jax No More: 16th Feb 2011 - 20:47 GMT

Hate to say it but there are no ghosts, no Satanists, no gangs, just the occasional hobo. Lived in Jax for longer than anyone ever should and reconned this place fairly well in the late 90's. I'm just surprised it is still standing.

Stacychick: 19th Feb 2011 - 08:38 GMT

My brother used to go there with his buddies an they used to all trip on acid a shrooms there an stuff ..lol I wouldint beable to trip in a scary place like that.. Wat do y'all think is under an burried under all the sand.. An I'm pretty sure a couple homeless ppl died there too.. My bro got caught truspassing there about ..4 or 5 monthes ago had to pick him up at like 2 in the morning ..has anyone brought a quji bored there yet??? I prolly would aha:P email me if u gots an answers (starshinestacy@yahoo.com)

jaxretta: 20th Feb 2011 - 04:41 GMT

dude i went in there when i was like 17 and im 33 now there is no way i would ever go in again...i know it probably was my mind playing tricks but when i heard those metal doors slam ....I still get the chills when i ride by there. my friends tried to tell me it was the wind that probably blew that door but we were on the second floor and it was the auditorium doors where the hell the wind come from anyway i believe there is something not of this world residing in there and i would never go back....

bonnie: 24th Feb 2011 - 21:58 GMT

road by there the other day so i could get a good look at the school, and i saw 2 police cars parked outside so i just went passed it, i always wanted a better look at the place maybe one day i will get my chance if there is no police cars parked by it

anymous: 1st Mar 2011 - 01:55 GMT

wow is it creey heres a reccomendation if youre a thrill sekker spend the night there on halloween

Shay: 4th Mar 2011 - 16:09 GMT

I live like right down the street from this place, my friends all tell me it's very haunted.

Tyler: 16th Mar 2011 - 01:28 GMT

This school is awesome the first time i went was in the dark and have never went during the day. Thats what made it so scary i guess. It was a thrill. the friends i went with have been plenty of times and they screwed with me the whole time but it was awesome...

TG: 17th Mar 2011 - 22:14 GMT

WOW!!! There is a green face in pic #20. I tried to go in recently but could not find a way. I think they have it all boarded up. =-(

Trey: 31st Mar 2011 - 02:23 GMT

This Place Is Crazy ! I've Drove Past It So Many Times When I Was A Kid, Going With PLENTY Of Friends(10+). Should Be A Fun But Serious Experience For Us.

kathryn rogers: 7th Apr 2011 - 04:35 GMT

I've Always Wanted To Go There But Never Able To !!! It Looks Really Creepy From The Pics And The Few Time I've Passed It Over The High Way. Hope I Will Be Able To See It Close Up And Go In Side One Day Soon.... :)

Leah: 16th Apr 2011 - 09:22 GMT

I've been there multiple times.
10-20 times.
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we always went around 3 (witching hour)
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the first time I went I was scared pooless.
A few times later (of course) it got alot easier.
Till one day we finally went down in the "catacombs" as they called it
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I had a very unusual expierence.
Before we went down there I always seen a little girl in a white dress.
She either had a red ball or a puppy.
It was later told that it was the devil's daughter
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If she left the room
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you did go with her or the 7 servants surrounding
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protecting her would kill you.
But the night we decided to go into the "catacombs" we were doing great.
Didn't get lost or anything.
Been to the arch where it has "beware" painted above it
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we crawled in there
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that was the last thing I remembered.
(I was told this because I didn't member anything so please give meh a break if you think I'm crazy or something. I do not do drugs at all. I didn't drink before I went either. 100% sober.)
I had 5 or 6 people surrounding meh asking meh questions.
They were asking meh stuff like "What's your name?!?!"
"How old are you?!?!"
Simple stuff.
I wouldn't answer any of their questions.
Then my friend Jose asked meh what his nickname was
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for the life of meh I couldn't member it.
(I was the one who gave him his nickname.)
They had to pretty much carry meh out of the school.
I could breath.
I couldn't talk.
I couldn't even walk.
They thought something had possessed meh
&&
that was the reason I couldn't member anything.
I do not remember coming to until I was in Wal*Mart a few hours later leaning up against a shelf.
I was told that I was very mean
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had the most horrid, evil look
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smirk on my face.
Let meh remind you that I was told all this.
But I very much remember crawling under the archway with "beware" painted over it then standing in Wal*Mart leaning against a shelf.
Haven't been back since.
Only because I moved waaaaayyyy away.

papapa: 27th Apr 2011 - 13:20 GMT

i am going this weekend. i am soooooooooooooooooooooo freaking scared

Cacti: 17th May 2011 - 17:40 GMT

i've always seen it from the big bridge and then exactly a month ago, today, i went to Jacksonville for a concert, and then on monday morning(concert was on a sunday) my aunt and i went down to see it :) lol she was freaked out by it, which surprised me a little bit, to be honest, but i loved it! :D

MissModelFlaca: 14th Jun 2011 - 17:39 GMT

I am soooo doing a photoshoot here and CANNOT wait :)

Jim: 16th Jun 2011 - 00:25 GMT

I went in that school many years ago a couple times with a group of friends. It must have been in '90 or '91. (I am now 42) We saw a couple harmless homeless people sleeping, and I took a bunch of B&W photos. (one of a homeless person that didn't seem too thrilled to have a flash go off in his face) It is definintly a creepy place, but I am glad I can say I did it.

Lei: 2nd Jul 2011 - 00:30 GMT

Just passed Public School Number Four and I just had to look it up. Very scary, and peculiar looking...something I would suerly love to check out but since this little documentary mentioned that druggies and homeless peole stay there... I figured that the risk may be too great wjen it comes to safety. Thanks for sharing!!!

MR.Boz: 8th Jul 2011 - 19:16 GMT

i love to visit this place i have for real seen a lot of crazy things in this place i have done a lot of research and found out its was a really nice school i some times wounder what it would be like to be in class there when it was up and running

abortionrock: 24th Jul 2011 - 11:32 GMT

I played a concert there on Halloween 2008 in the auditorium. Acoustic of course...
I could've sworn i heard someone whispering during the second song we played!

first video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb1Eb7Yx_xY

myspace.com/abortionrock

FlKrissy: 4th Aug 2011 - 16:15 GMT

Was just there July 31st... had always heard things growing up but had never been. Was a lil creeped out going in but after getting in there realized it wasnt that big of a deal... most of the stories arnt real.. looked up the history and checked some police reports and was disappointed that it didnt live up to all the hype. Did get some cool pics though...

kim pinette: 25th Aug 2011 - 17:14 GMT

man i went in with a friend in the day light it was still so dark in there but we walked around in there for ever and we seen things felt things and even have pics of people even a old man it was cool to go in and take pics and also just the feelings you get from just being in there (verry creepy)

ashley rhue: 29th Aug 2011 - 16:48 GMT

I was wanting to know more about this school i been in it like three times and never really went on but something keeps pullin back in like to where i wanna spend the nite there...but then i get cold and turn around for sum reason but i dont believe in ghost or what ever but i know sum thing bad is in that school

Brittany Kitchens: 1st Sep 2011 - 00:48 GMT

Me and 2 other people went to school four twice very strange vibes in that school. but not enough to make me run the other way experiences i have occurred when i was in there with evp but i unfortunately dont have any more evps i lost them but i plan on going back to take more. but like I was saying I have been hit in the back while crawling back from the boiler room and i still have lower back pains from that It had felt like a board hit me on my lower back hurt like a bitch. and more things i was standing in the hall way across from the other building which you cant get to because it has no stairs saw a pair of glowing eyes and it was not a cat they were like green very light eyes. i have felt a little girls presence and actually got her on camera yes i did it was sad but if you listen to my words i say i was taking a video and like i said i dot have it anymore it was like a year ago and i caught a girl hanging she had skull like bones no eyes stringy hair very upsetting i cry ed because i felt helpless i wanted to go back and comfort this little girl and all her pain i got scratched on my leg three times and i got possessed for 3 days after coming back right when i noticed it my mood was changing and i had a real bad attitude which is not me. I have heard several weeps and i have heard someone behind me say hello and i said to scott my friend did you just say that he said no but i heard it also i was seeing if you noticed it very strange its just really sad how some teenagers dont give a shit and write on the walls and it very disrespectful i am a teenager as well but come on have some respect for the school and the people who died in the building like i said i am very vaurnable to being possessed because i can feel the atmosphere in the room and i can take that in and understand the pain I wanna have my own business in the paranormal it has always been my dream and im going to achieve it so if you guys have any questions or wanting to know more about my story i have alot of things that have happened im in a rush so dont judge me on my punctuation email me anytime maybe we can investigate together email me at brittany_katelynn@yahoo.com

Brittany Kitchens: 1st Sep 2011 - 01:15 GMT

I have updated my story i have wrote a review on here my very first one and i forgot to list my second one Please Beware of the little girl in the white dress. she has no eyes bones she is very scary and will possess you no lie. it sounds very cleshay but honestly just wait you will see her she is on the second story i have been possessed by her. i used to live in a trailer and when we moved in it was so peaceful but ever since i went to that place dude i came back my trailer was upsidedown from voices to discomfort to unexplained scratches shadows it fucks with your own home now i live in an apartment and shit is starting to happen here and these are brand new apartments. wtf. i know right just please be careful it is very dangerous.

Nettam: 4th Sep 2011 - 20:22 GMT

Tonite my senior class will be going in da building to see wat its all about!

L: 6th Sep 2011 - 01:25 GMT

Haha, how was it Nettam?
And any advice for us newbies?

tannie: 12th Sep 2011 - 08:22 GMT

i just went tonight a no shit i did get a pip on camera of a apperition of a child in white clothing...im moved last month to florida from detroit n i am not scared in the slightest but when returning home i downloaded pic n seen dor myself....creepy. my husband went in boiler room a heard banging on it.. he got out quick lol

Nick: 16th Sep 2011 - 18:51 GMT

I live very close to this place and have been there once.

Nick: 16th Sep 2011 - 18:51 GMT

I live very close to this place and have been there once.

tanner: 3rd Oct 2011 - 01:18 GMT

wow i wanna go there for halloween this year ... anyone else wanna come with me?

candylsraven@yahoo.com: 4th Oct 2011 - 04:12 GMT

my name is j iv spent a lot of time in the old school as it was my home for a year or so in the i was a heroin junkie clean now for 17 years the school is haunted but only by bad memories and lies its a sad thing to lose this place it means a lot to meas it was my home in some real bad times if any one can stop it please keep it standing

Mark : 7th Oct 2011 - 00:52 GMT

The last time I was in School number 4 was back in 1999 or 2000. I got so freaked out, a bum chased me with an 8 inch knife it was crazy! But I made it into the basement underneath the school. Talk about cold air under there and it was the spring/ summertime. I want to go back and check it out again and see if it really is haunted. Has any ghost hunter type of people ever been to this school to see if it's actually hanuted?

Ashley: 8th Oct 2011 - 19:06 GMT

this place is haunted and the old man you see is the janitor that was actually a child malester when it was a nice school litte kids died there and they still haunt that place one of my friend went in there and he said that when he walked in he felt things tugging at him and trying to push him out the door and then he heard a voice say "GET OUT YOUR NOT WELCOME HERE" then something ran at him and he then left

Nicole : 20th Oct 2011 - 23:06 GMT

hi my name is nicole i went there in i was freaked out im telling you if u go in there if u sleep there or stay there in hour u will die i herd tht and my best friend neviah she wuz my bff she stayed there for an hour and she disapeared until she was found in the basement full of blood i told her to come its been 3 years she said GET AWAY !!!!!!!!! ITS DANGEROUS PLSSSS I yelled as hell shes like plsss never come here again or else u will be haunted i called the cops and the school a janitor pushed me again in i almost died till the cops came but my friend died by the janitor and i never got to see her she had blood everywhere tht u would get scared plss dont go to this school plss

neviah: 23rd Oct 2011 - 13:41 GMT

What Nicole said she was lying. I am still alive and that place is not really hunted all my friends went there with me and we slept there and nothing happen all we heard was noise but that was just wind. So all you people commeting your liers!!!! I stayed there for 12hr and NOTHING NOTHING!!! Happen!and plus people dont haunt u they are good people if they where mean and evil the they are somewhere called HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

WWWWWW: 23rd Oct 2011 - 13:46 GMT

ummmmm tht place is so not haunted and neviah is rite shes not lying u guys all u want is to scare kidz well if u r STOP IT its annoying when people scared others is just a school build in the 1800s or somethin stop lying none of the schools are huanted and stop lying its gettin people sick why lying if people aready know u r BYE!

RANDY: 23rd Oct 2011 - 14:09 GMT

wwwwwwww is soo right and neviah nicole ur a fucking liar nicole just talked

neviah: 23rd Oct 2011 - 14:42 GMT

see nicole everyone said ur a liar thanks alot im not ur friend

neviah: 23rd Oct 2011 - 14:42 GMT

see nicole everyone said ur a liar thanks alot im not ur friend

nicole: 23rd Oct 2011 - 14:43 GMT

what the fuck it i doooooo i only said tht cuz neviah seems dead to me :p