The Halloween season has the Northwood School community reflecting on whether or not the school is haunted. This article, written by Khaly Barry ’16, was produced for the Making Radio Spring Program in May 2014. See more content from Making Radio. It first ran in The MIrror on October 28, 2016.
Are there ghosts at Northwood School? Lots of people, including students, faculty, and alumni who have lived on campus, say the school is haunted. Mr. Tom “Brody” Broderick, longtime history teacher, Assistant Headmaster and Dean of Students, is the school’s unofficial scholar of all things supernatural. Correspondent Khaly Barry ask Brody and a few students to share ghost stories.
“Do I think Bergamini is haunted? Yes.”
“There’s a belief that this girl’s ghost is walking around the attic.”
“Is that ghost roaming around? Who knows?”
Gusikoff: Faces of ghosts appeared in our pictures.
Sophomore Stephen Gilligan has also seen the photo, and he saw a ghost at 4am one morning on freshman hall.

Evidence of a ghost? The photo that Gilly and Travis refer to has convinced some, but it has left others with doubts.
Matthew Headland also saw the ghost on freshman hall: “It made me widen my horizons to the idea of ghosts.”
“It was really creepy”
“That’s what he told me, and it’s pretty scary.”