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Although the final graduating class at Norfolk High had only 5 graduates, the 11 room brick school closed its doors in 1958. The school grew up in wealth surrounded by a panorama of glistening oil tanks near Cushing. The school was built in 1922 in Payne County. The school has enjoyed a colorful record, heavily fringed in oil boom wealth of the early 1920’s. Oil strikes and an upsurge in rural population in the area created a need for a high school, and in 1922 a small, frame building went up. In 1925 a fire reduced the school to rubble, and caused the school to rebuild with a more up-to-date building. In 1926 they constructed the still standing brick structure with 11 rooms, gymnasium, auditorium, workshops and dressing rooms. The teaching staff was increased to seven, with a full time superintendent. A full fledged athletic program also was inaugurated and special classroom equipment was installed. Norfolk soon became a school to be envied by its city cousins. Then with the passing of the oil play subsided, and the round-bellied oil tanks ringing the school echoed fading dreams and was closed due to financial problems and low enrollment.
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This school also goes by the name of “satans house”. Its said to be a place of satan worshiping at night. And the main urban legend of this place is that when it caught fire, two children were trapped in the boiler room and died. Because of this, it is said to be haunted by them.
Ok, so after doing a little more research, I found out I was partly wrong. “Satans house” is a separate location, which is actually part of a train loading station from one of the old refineries out there. I believe its farily close to this school. The legend of the children dying at this school still stands though.
Ok we went there when the sun was first setting. Checking everything out to know where we would stay. Me(Kasey) and Ricky stayed in the gym where all the basketball courts were. When It got dark we walked there and turned our lights off and stayed there and sat down. After awhile we started to here things dropping from above us like brick and in one case Ricky turned and a nail fell and hit his shoulder from above. We thought it of as the kids there see it as burning down building and stuff falling from the fire. His father did not hear anything falling we knew it was them hearing it that way. Our father stayed in the basement and after a while herd kids crying “HELP ME” really lightly from the boiler room. We looked over by the window seal to the right and saw a kid peak at us and hide back down under the seal again. Then we looked back and the bushes were moving around with no wind. About 20 minutes later we saw a figure of a man walking out of the school then he turned and stared at us then turned again and disappeared. We got out of there then when we were leaving, at the front gate Ricky saw a little kid figure trying to wave us down then disappeared. I saw a man figure in the middle of the road walking down to where The Principles house or The Superintendents house.
Me and couple friends went there a few days ago and had the same thing happen to us. we were in the gymnasium area and objects started falling from the sky. it was strange because the roof of the gym has no ceiling and the objects were obviously blunt and had some decent mass to them. u could tell by the way it ricochet off the walls. i’ve never been a believer in ghosts but this one got me genuinely creeped out and im beginning to wonder
Hey Adam if you ever check this place out again give me a call or a text at 1-661-361-0493. My friend Ricky Lives there and maybe we could all do this again.
Me and some of my friends used to go out to the school when we wher in high school and I’ve witnessed my fair share of unexplainable things out there. in one instance we experienced one of my friends actually get a brick thrown at him. We tried to come up with a logical explaination for what happend but as u can see from the pictures of the boilier room theres really no bricks missing from the ceiling or the walls so it couldn’t have just fell…..
I went with a group of 5 tonight and I thought that this building was really cool. We decided to go before dark because when we tried to find it last week in the dark, we failed. So we showed up around 8 and found a good place to leave my car and proceeded to brave the brush to find our way to the building. It was bigger than I expected it to be, and there was a lot to explore. The boiler room kind of gave me the creepies, but that is because I knew of the stories going in. Nothing really happened while we were there, but we decided being there after dark might make all the difference.
I don’t know how you guys planned on sleeping there or did anything in the dark! There was glass everywhere and spiderwebs at every turn and it was rather difficult to navigate in the sunlight, I am sure the darkness really played that up. Anyway, it’s cool that there are some people much braver than me out there, but I decided this was worth seeing just for the fact that the building was totally rad.
i have been to the norfolk school, i heard the story a little different, is there any kind of state report on this. my grandma grew up in cushing, she said she never heard of it, is it odd that the place still smells like fire. did it catch on fire since it was shut down? what about the small white building just to the south? was that the superintendants house. i heard it was the ground keepers house. and he burnt the school down because the kids were making fun of him, maybe i just heard from the wrong people please e mail me back with more info, maybe an interview from someone that went to that school.