Apparently the first New Year's resolution for some Leominster residents is to find out once and for all what ghosts and goblins are roaming around town. According to the Sentinel and Enterprise, an A&E film crew will be in our fair city next week to examine a haunted condominium.
Hasn't the old haunted schoolhouse thing been done before? Didn't Haley Joel Osment see dead people in an old schoolhouse in the Sixth Sense? If we're going to be haunted, don't you think we should be haunted by someone or something unique to the city?LEOMINSTER -- Shannon Sylvia said the first sign of paranormal activity in her condo was when her bedroom door flew open on a calm night in 1998.
"It was around 11:30 at night, and I was lying in bed, and the bedroom door just went 'bang!'" she said Friday. "It ripped open so hard that the doorknob put a hole in the wall, and it scared me to death. The windows were closed, there was no breeze and there was absolutely no one there. That's when I started to realize that something was up here."
Sylvia, 32, bought the condo at 593 Main St. about a decade ago. She since learned that her open, two-story loft had been a fourth-grade classroom of the Pierce Street School until the mid-1980s....
Her story and her house were compelling enough for the producers of "Paranormal U," a new series for the A&E television network, who will begin filming an episode there and around Leominster Jan. 11, co-executive producer Alan LaGarde said Friday.
"I think there was something just in her, and the way she told her story," he said. "We wanted to do something that has a little bit of history to it, so the old school house has a lot of appeal to us."
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