Question of the Day!

The primary school I attended, and later taught at, was large. They have a wooden external building which stands on stumps and holds 4 classrooms. They used to have a heap of portables as well, but they are long gone; the wooden building - that's been there since 1969.

So its stumps are around 3' high (1 metre). They are surrounded by wooden slats to prevent children getting underneath, nut they are not exactly tight - you can see right under.

And there has been a pile of canvas bags under there since I was a student in 1975... and they are still there. When I was a teacher there, I discovered they cover an old well (the area used to be farmland). Allegedly.

Anyway, as a kid we were told that it was where "Gary" slept. My sister, seven years my junior, was told it was "Geoff." It was "Gavin" at some stage. By the time I was teaching there, "Gary" was back.

To this day, in the area (many don't leave), people still think a person lives under the external building. The fact that the canvas bags have been seen moving (at one stage a family of cats apparently took residence there, at another some rats) and that the canvas bags are replaced at times (the old ones rot and they do cover something), and this urban legend has legs.

Last summer, around January, I bumped into an old school companion at the local supermarket and we got chatting. He mentioned the "guy under the school building." He told me his kids heard about it (they are students there right now). He thinks it's real. He's not the only one.

That's ours...