Ghost Stories Haunting Indiana Middle School

School Named For Former Teacher Who Some Say Haunts The Halls
Pamela Jones
Reporting

(CBS) DYER, Ind. For some, it's like the ghost of Moaning Myrtle in the
Harry Potter tales -- the spirit that haunted the "Hogwarts School for
Witchcraft and Wizardry," unable to rest and unhappy to have left the
living.

CBS 2's Pamela Jones reports that a seemingly similar story lurks in the
halls of Kahler Middle School in Dyer, Ind.
The school is named for Agnes Kahler, who taught there for more than 50
years.

Some believe her ghost hangs over all who enter.
During a late night back in May alarms at the school sounded - and no
one could shut them off for almost an hour.
"Needless to say, it was pretty freaky," Dyer Fire Chief Thad Stutler
said.
Some think the alarms displayed Kahler's cry
for help.

"It was just strange," Stutler said. "I guess there could be ghosts,
[but] we didn't see anything, we didn't really hear anything other than
the thing on the wall that said 'help' and then I find out it's not
supposed to say help and there's no way to make it."

Firefighters and school officials said the problem at the school may not
have been spiritual at all. It could have been an electrical
malfunction, which is a less alarming explanation, and one certainly
less interesting than a haunting.

The new principal here has heard some of the stories, but never a peep
from Kahler.
"I knew that there was a cemetery next door, that's the only thing I've
known," Principal Karen Brownell said.

Kahler's final resting place overlooks the school bearing her name, and
ghost or not, the current stir is conjuring an interest in her legacy.