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Blackwood Academy
California Informer. January 21st, 1979. Blackwood, California--
Two weeks ago, a seventeen-year-old girl disappeared. The girl, a student at Blackwood Academy, located in Blackwood, Southern California, simply vanished from campus two weeks ago, leaving all her things. Campus security reports that no one without a student or faculty ID was on campus at the time of her disappearance. Furthermore, not even her roommate noticed anything strange. The girl lived in the women's dorms, which are supposedly very secure in the middle of campus. An investigation by the local police turned up no sign of her in Blackwood or any of the surrounding towns. She simply vanished into thin air.
This incident is another in a string of incidents, tracing back nearly a hundred years. The most recent disappearance was twenty years ago, in 1958, and the boy was never heard from again, nor was a body ever found. Strange things seem to happen in Blackwood, and no one has any answers.

Blackwood Academy Owl. January 23rd, 1979.
Sarah Parker has still not been heard from. She disappeared more than two weeks ago, and no one has been able to find her. Though current theory states that she ran away, the Owl staff has received numerous complaints from students who say they can't walk near the east stairs without getting a chill. The last person to see Sarah said they saw her walking down the east stairs
The Owl staff has as of yet been unable to obtain access to the confidential files on the students that disappeared in the past, but they are still trying. The staff, was, however, able to obtain two letters sent to Sarah in the days leading up to her death, reproduced below:

We're coming for you, Sarah. You can't run and you can't hide. Join us, its your only chance for peace.

Do not dare and defy us!

Other issues of the Owl have reported other victims as receiving similar messages.

California Informer. May 16th, 1995. Blackwood, California--
A few days ago a mass grave was discovered by a dog, who was apparently looking for a bone. The owner of the dog, a Ms. Lorraine Jameyson of Blackwood, California, reports that she dog has been digging at that same spot since she bought the house five years ago. She bought a house close to the school for her children, but reports she is moving. Some of the bones appear to be more than one-hundred and thirty years old.
The grave is unusual for many reason. First of all, the grave is very very deep, nearly twenty five feet down, and very wide. It would have taken a lot of manpower to dig a grave that deep. Second of all, none of the ground around the grave appears to have been disturbed, and the 50-year-old tree growing right over the center of the grave never looks like its been uprooted or moved. Third, the bodies range from one hundred and thirty four years old to no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. Yet all of the bodies seem to have been laid in the grave at the same time, and while still alive. There isn't a bone out of place anywhere. Lastly, these seem to be the bodies of anyone who has disappeared from Blackwood Academy, ever. DNA testing have confirmed some of the more recent bodies.
Right now, the school has not been indicated in either the bodies or knowledge of the grave site.

Blackwood Academy Owl. May 16th, 2005.
Ten years ago today, the California Informer did a story on the bodies found just outside of school grounds, in Ms. Jameyson's back yard. Since that day, has anyone noticed that things around the school are a little eerie? Like when strange things happen, and they get hushed up instead of reported to the press? Like when Haydn Rosenberg went missing and we were all just told she went home, when in reality no one has heard from her since and all her stuff seemed to disappear after she was gone? It feels like the school has been trying to hush incidents up for years.
Article removed from finalized paper May 17th, 2005. Deleted from archives May 18th, 2005.




Blackwood Academy. Just your regular, average, everyday school, right? Sure. The students take any class any other student would, the school is dominated and divided by different social groups, the students all drink underage and go out on the weekends and have a good time they way they would anywhere else. Sure, they go to school in a building almost 140 years old, but everything has been updated and modernized for convenience. The campus is beautiful and filled with lots of little nooks and crannies that make a prefect place to curl up with a book. There are huge fireplaces in some of the main building areas, which are often lit and make great places to hang out with your friends. Just a picture perfect place with picture perfect views and picture perfect people.
Right?
Wrong.
Even on opening night in 1873, things went wrong. Students complained of feeling a presence that seemed to float in and out of their rooms and examine them; people stumbled upon trap doors and tunnel systems behind wall panels, and some people seemed to simply disappear. Ever since, people have been disappearing with no valid explanation as to why. Many receive threatening letters, but other's don't. Some are girls, some are boys, some are popular, some are not. The victims have nothing in common other than the fact that they go to Blackwood Academy.
These disappearances went on for 120 years before even so much as a single clue was discovered. Back in 1995, a dog digging in its back yard managed to find a mass grave which contained nearly 500 bodies, a number never released to the press. The grave was immediately linked to the school, but no single person could be indited in these heinous crimes. The oldest body was so old, no living person could have killed them, and certainly no one person could have dug this huge mass grave. The case was finally dismissed as an open investigation and put on the shelf, after three years of searching to no avail.
Ever since, students have been complaining of places where the climate seems instantly colder and of feeling a presence floating around. A fair number of students have gone missing, but the school keeps telling students that the missing student simply "went home" or "was expelled". Strange things have been happening all around campus, but everything is always hushed.
As for the students, they stand divided. Half of the student population ignores the strange goings-on, sighting them as faulty heating or any number of other theories to keep them at peace. They're referred to as the social-climbers. The rest of the students are much less easy to pacify, and have been doing research and the like to find out everything they possibly can about the strange activity that seems to take place at their school. The two groups are each headed by a king and queen, and the couples are at constant odds with each other.
At Blackwood, one never knows what they'll find. The whole campus is littered with secret areas, the school administration is up to something, and everything you find is a clue. Can you solve the mystery of Blackwood Academy?