Teachers desert ‘haunted’ house

and witches that eat little tots.
Often, the terror of these stories fade early and people live through their lives without a second thought about the horrors that the supernatural can be.
Not so for the community around Nya-matowa Primary School in Mudzi, where people are convinced supernatural terrors stalk them.
Over the past eight years, eight teachers have died in what the community says are mysterious circumstances after occupying a staff house that they say is haunted.
And all the deaths are said to have occurred around March.
The Ides of March, perhaps?
The school headmaster, Mr Teveraishe Tugamba, revealed this while narrating the school’s housing situation to the Zimbabwe National Army’s 2 Brigade public relations officer, Lieutenant Godfrey Gweje, on Monday.
“The school has an acute shortage of teacher’s accommodation, some teachers are sharing houses a situation which is not very healthy as some of them are married and have children.
“There is however, one house which is vacant after we discovered that it is haunted by evil spirits.
“Legend has it that years ago, the house was occupied by an aged headmistress who was not married and had no male companion until she retired.
“Every year a teacher would occupy the house, spend almost a year and around this month (March) the teacher in this house would mysteriously die after a short illness.
“When I took over as headmaster four years ago, four teachers had died and during my tenure the same number of teachers passed away in similar circumstances, making them eight in total,” he said.
Mr Tugamba said efforts to exorcise the house were not sufficient to convince any teacher to move in.
Apparently no one wanted to be the “guinea pig” that would test the veracity of the excorcism.
“One day I was surprised when a teacher who was my close colleague and was staying in that house started acting strange while in my office.
“We later realised that he had really gone mad and it was such a scary and sad event for me and the entire school.
“The school authorities and the school development committee finally agreed that we should just destroy the house to spare our dwindling staff.”
Teachers and pupils refused to discuss the house when asked by this writer and no one dares go near it.