Paranormal Playtime: The School That Never Sleeps

Paranormal Playtime: The School That Never Sleeps examines the history and reported hauntings of the British Schools Museum in Hitchin. Penny Griffiths-Morgan sets the building’s educational past alongside the Lancasterian monitorial system, Victorian schooling and the lives of children who studied there.

The later sections recount investigations at the former school, including reports of ghostly laughter, phantom footsteps, unexplained voices and a Victorian desk that appeared to move by itself. Griffiths-Morgan also records experiments involving electromagnetic-field meters, electronic voice phenomena and a school-bell recording, while distinguishing incidents she could explain from those that remained unresolved. The result is a focused account of one historic school building, its educational legacy and the claims surrounding its continuing nocturnal activity.