![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, the goal was to keep people on school grounds, well within the constraints of safety and yard supervisors, who could keep an eye on you in case you somehow got hurt. I think the whole point of the story was to keep kids from going out in the woods that surrounded the school, which everybody who went there did at one time or another. I suppose this is the kind of story that grown-ups tell little kids (and then little kids circulate among their peers with their own embellishments) to protect them. I recall going into the woods at one point to see if this fabled place was real, but I couldn’t find it. ![]() People were supposedly murdered there, or so the story went. ![]() Back when I was a kid attending elementary school in small-town Ontario, Canada, my classmates warned me in the schoolyard that there was a shack in the woods behind the school that had its walls painted red with blood and had butcher knives and other sharp objects dangling from its ceiling. ![]()
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