A Good Scare, An Even Better Laugh

The Podcast;
On November 10th my group and I got together to quickly make a podcast. With Halloween just passed we had all been watching a bunch of scary movies- which made for a very interesting topic choice. We each wrote a short paragraph about areas of the school portraying them as a place with a haunting story that has to do with a boy named earnest. Katherine wrote about the room 666, Adam wrote about the elevator, Cara wrote about the rooftop, Vanessa wrote about the laundry room, and I wrote about the tunnel that connects S and R building. The script was really fun to write because the group all had very similar ideas, and very similar senses of humour, and because it had to do with horror and make-believe. We wanted to create a myth for the residence buildings to interest the students who live in residence. It’s thrilling to think about the place you living having a haunting persona. There was a couple times where we found it hard to stay on topic because our imaginations ran off with us.
Cara and Vanessa are smarter with technology so we let them do the recording for the podcast- although we were all present for the recording in case we felt like we needed any revising done. Then we put it into an mp3 in real podcast form.




Podcast Tour of Humber College Residence, formerly the Rexdale School for Boys

RECORDING SCRIPT (effects will be added to the real mp3)

Vanessa: There is one recorded fatality at the Rexdale School for Boys. His name was Earnest, and he was 13 years old. He lived in Room 666, and he was liked by all his peers. He was discovered in his room slumped over his bureau with his history textbooks open. Cause of death: Homework Overload.

Cara: We’re here now at the Rexdale School for Boys today, now known as Humber North College Residence, where we are going to be leading a tour. Please stay with us as we venture through the tunnel that has an unknown history to the students who live here now.

Vanessa: The tunnel, which connects S building to the rest of the residence, was built over a fire pitt which students would use to burn all of their work at the end of the school year. To this day, some students say that they can feel what they can only describe as a hot spot as they pass through the tunnel.

The laundry room was used as the detention room back when it was a board school. Rumor has it that sometimes kids were made to stay in the detention room for over 24 hours. Some students would smuggle in small games to play to help pass the time. Ghosts are said to be seen in the laundry room and jacks have been found in the corner of the room.

Cara: Back when the building was for the Rexdale School for boys, the elevator was only supposed to be used by the cleaning maids and teachers. Some boys that were risky enough snuck into it regularly, just for the thrill of breaking the rules. Often they would ride up to the roof and look out over the landscape, usually a sunset or sunrise. Lets take a look up there now and find out what we can see.

Currently from the roof you can see the other residence buildings, the daycare centre, Hwy 27, and the Humber and Guelph-Humber buildings. At the time of the Rexdale School, most of this area wasn’t developed, so there was really nothing to see except a dirt path and a few trees. But the view wasn’t the only reason to go up to the roof. Professors used the roof as an illegal zone...they smoked and drank like there was no tomorrow. They assumed that no students would see them. However, Earnest and some friends went up to the roof one night, and they found their three teachers drunk, dancing to salsa music. They were horrified, so they ran back downstairs. It is still unknown if the teachers were aware of how their secret was exposed.

Vanessa: That’s it for the tour today. Please join our show next week when we will explore ...