The Days Creek football team is hosting Griswold Saturday in the season opener for both teams. Griswold is in the town of Helix in northeastern Oregon and is named for a doctor who founded the school.
The schools don’t have much in common … except that they might each be haunted.
According to shadowlands.net, a web site that tracks ghosts, hauntings and the supernatural, Griswold is “haunted by Dr. Griswold, the founder of the school, and his wife. They can be seen looking in the left window in the gymnasium, although Dr. Griswold has been seen more often.”
Days Creek is rumored to have a ghost of its own, Esmerelda. Her origins are different, depending on who you ask.
“I heard that she haunts the bathrooms,” sophomore Jazmin Estrada said. “They say they hear weird noises. And that the sinks in the bathrooms turn on when no one is there.”
New 5th grade teacher Kim Whetzel said she remembers Esmerelda rumors from her time as a Days Creek student.
“She’s down in the dungeon,” Whetzel said, referring to Days Creek’s subterranean cafeteria.
Junior Sunny Losey said that Esmerelda aims at scaring younger children.
“She haunts the skibidi toilet paper and it comes out when she wants to scare little kids,” Losey said.
Volleyball coach and 2010 Days Creek graduate Rachel Matchett said “The story of Esmerelda was brought down from when they were in sixth grade.” She also said that her coach used to make them go down in the dungeon when they’d get home from volleyball games at night.
The Tiller-Trail Times was unable to confirm if either Dr. Griswold or Esmerelda are football fans. If paranormal activity takes place on Saturday afternoon, we’ll know.
