Every Halloween, Rhode Island’s most infamous institution stirs with ghost stories — chilling true accounts of hauntings, poltergeists, and unexplained encounters at the Ladd School. Former staff, urban explorers, and locals recount phantom footsteps, voices in the dark, and vanishing lights, all pulled from the viral Facebook thread that resurfaces each October.

But not everyone is convinced. Through a tangle of belief and skepticism, we follow those who swear they’ve felt the cold grip of the unknown, and those who insist nothing ever haunted these halls.

Music: “Endless Nightmare” by Oliver Garcia, licensed via Motion Array.