History & local legend
Bentworth Elementary Center in Bentleyville opened in 1997. A story associated with its construction says a roofer fell to his death and continued to appear on the building afterward. Students reported seeing an unfamiliar man walking across the roof.
Night janitors described hearing footsteps during their rounds, sometimes on the second floor and sometimes above them on the roof itself.
Sources
- StrangeUSA, Bentworth Elementary Center account of students’ roof sightings and janitors’ footsteps
- The Shadowlands, Bentleyville/Bentworth Elementary Center, same roof and second-floor tradition
- Pennsylvania General Assembly, school-building inventory, Washington County, Bentworth Elementary built in 1997 and middle school in 2008
- Bentworth Elementary School, official contact address
- OpenStreetMap, elementary school grounds
