History & local legend
The former Chandler School on Garfield Street in Johnstown's West End had a ghost tradition involving its janitor and lights appearing in the empty building after the power was supposedly off. A contributor added a more dramatic incident to The Shadowlands in December 2006.
An old piano had been left on a stair landing, ready to be moved to the high school the following day. By morning, the account said, it lay broken at the bottom of the stairs. The contributor connected the incident with the janitor story already circulating at Chandler. By 2008, the former classrooms had been converted into apartments.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Pennsylvania, Johnstown/Chandler School, including the dated December 2006 piano account
- StrangeUSA, original August 2008 local comment placing the converted school on Garfield Street
- Greater Johnstown School District, school archive identifying the Garfield Street site as the later Chandler school
- Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Cambria County inventory, Chandler School Apartments at 280 Garfield Street
- Esri, school apartment address point