schoolhouse

“I used to live out in the sticks, you might say,” Jenny told me apologetically, “I mean, it was a small town.  Still is.  And with them small towns like that, they come chock full of stories, I’m sure you know.” Having grown up mostly in small towns myself, I did know.  She was right, small towns seem to have a story of intrigue attached to nearly every family, building, or landmark.  Wetumka, Oklahoma was no different, and had its share of stories, including one about the haunted old school house just outside of town. “Nearly everyone knows about it,” she explained, “Most folk pass it sometime or another – being that it sits nearby the Wetumka Cemetery.  Now, it isn’t the cemetery that makes the school spooky in itself – fact is the school isn’t hardly that spooky at all.  Neither is the cemetery, now that we’re on the topic.” Jenny describes the town, a small farming community near a few bodies of water and rivers, mostly flat grasslands