History & local legend
Camp Hill’s present high school opened in 1953 across Chestnut Street from the earlier school. Its ghost story centers on a small metal door on the lower level, about three feet above the floor. According to the school legend, people who managed to look behind the normally locked door found a dirt-floored space with low mounds.
Students explained the mounds as a children’s cemetery left undisturbed when the school was built. The same story accounts for glimpses of little girls running through the halls, the sound of their footsteps, and children’s voices when no children can be seen.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Camp Hill High School, the metal door, earthen floor, and girls in the halls
- Camp Hill School District, original 1907 school and 1953 replacement across Chestnut Street
- Cumberland County Historical Society, Gardner Library, Camp Hill and photograph of the previous school
- Esri, current high school address point