St Mary's School for the Deaf

New York · United States · Church

The nuns are seen going to ring the church bell. The bell has not worked in years, and the students could not have heard it in any case.

Students and staff at this school on Main Street in Buffalo, New York have reported nuns on the third floor, in the old dormitories.

The nuns are seen going to ring the church bell.

The bell no longer works, and the students are deaf, so they could not have heard it ring in any case.

That is the whole of it and it is one of the most striking entries in this archive, because it explains something about the reports themselves. There are no accounts of sounds here. Everything witnesses describe is visual, in detail, and the pattern holds across every report from the building.

A site where the witnesses cannot hear produces evidence of a kind almost nothing else in this collection does: it removes at a stroke the entire category of creaks, settling, voices and misheard noise that accounts for most of what is reported everywhere else.

The school is in use and is not open to visitors.

FAQ

Where is St Mary's School for the Deaf located?

St Mary's School for the Deaf is in New York, United States.

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