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Northwestern High School

Blue Lucy Takes the Stage at Northwestern High

The dark-roofed Northwestern High School building beside Harthan Way and the athletic fields, viewed from above.

History & local legend

Northwestern High School in Albion, Erie County, has an auditorium ghost known to drama students as Lucy. An alumnus writing in February 2008 recalled looking through the auditorium doors and seeing a long-haired woman at center stage, apparently illuminated by blue light.

Other drama-club accounts describe a girl in a blue dress in the lighting room above the stage. During one rehearsal blackout, a director called Lucy's name without success. A performer then made a familiar Lucille Ball joke, demanding an explanation from Lucy, and the lights returned.

Sources

  1. StrangeUSA, Northwestern Senior High School Auditorium, firsthand recollections by an alumnus and drama-club cast members, preserved November 2011
  2. Northwestern School District, 2020–21 professional directory identifying the senior high school at 200 Harthan Way
  3. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association, Northwestern Senior High School address
  4. OpenStreetMap, named high-school footprint
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agriculture Imagery Program, 2022 · License