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Wild Plum Schoolhouse: the exposed hoax

Richardton area, North Dakota

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A 1944 schoolhouse scare involved apparently moving coal, small fires, and a hooded figure. Prairie Public documents that pupils admitted staging the disturbances. This is a resolved case: a useful example of a haunting claim whose explanation was human mischief.

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