A particular underpass on Loundsley Green Road supposedly has an unsettling atmosphere. In December 2018, two people out walking nearby reported a sensation of being pushed by waves and feeling slighty nauseous whilst standing near the entrance, but there was no breeze.
Before construction began on the school, local residents would participate in seances in a barn, located on the site of a present car park. After a few months, they summoned two Crimean soldiers, who would stand on an embankment near the barn whenever a seance was taking place. This terrified the locals, so many stopped attending and the barn was eventually demolished during construction of the school.
The following year, some locals started performing seances again, in the middle of the construction site, resulting in black shadowy shapes floating through walls. One young boy who would play football on the construction site stopped after witnessing shadowy apparitions and a man dressed in 18th century costume with tricorn hat, walking a dog. Both the man and the dog suddenly vanished.
In 2011, the school burglar alarm was activated in the Art Department, alerting the site manager. He investigated and found that an infra-red sensor had been activated in Art 2, a downstairs corridor, and on the stairs, within fifteen seconds of each other. It was as though someone had walked from the classroom, along the corridor and up the stairs to Home Economics, but investigation found no sign of entry to the building and no one present inside.
During the construction of another building in the 1990s, unidentified bones were discovered. When working in a classroom in this building one evening in early 2014, a senior member of staff reported hearing footsteps and seeing the store room door being flung wide open, however no one was there. A cleaner has also reported seeing a shadowy figure lurking around the store room between the two classrooms.
In the summer of 2014, a cleaner called "Claire" (pseudonym) was working alone in the Physics Department when she heard the sound of chairs and tables scraping on the floor of a classroom above, as if an entire class of students were being dismissed at the end of a lesson. She was left terrified by this experience and quickly left the building. On another occasion, she has reported hearing the unsettling sounds of a high pitched choir around the block, of which she could not find the source. When working upstairs in May 2018, Claire heard heavy breathing behind her as she entered a classroom. Expecting it was a colleague joking around, she turned around and no one was there. The encounters with the unexplained in the Physics Department were not just limited to Claire. When the site manager was locking up the outside doors of the building one night in 2016, he noticed a light was on in a department office upstairs. He unlocked the doors and went upstairs to turn the light off. However, as soon as he got outside, he noticed the light was back on. He quickly locked up the block and left that area of the site.
In 2015, a pupil was walking through a car park one morning when he noticed a young girl standing by a car. The young girl looked out of place and made him uncomfortable, so he informed a member of the pastoral support team. A few days later, a teacher was reversing his car into his usual parking spot - the area where the girl had been seen - when the reversing sensor began to beep loudly. He found this odd, so got out to look and found nothing there. He got back in and continued reversing before the sensor gave a long, loud beep and there was a thud as though he had hit something. However, upon inspection, nothing was there. In November 2019, a pupil and a teaching assistant were discussing the incident. The teaching assistant pointed to the area it occurred, and suddenly there was a loud bump and a small round object flew off the bonnet of a parked car. Its motion was described like that of a skimming stone. The teaching assistant and pupil could not find the object, the car park gates were locked and there were no trees around. The object's speed and size made it extremely unlikely to have been dropped by a bird.
There are also tales from the Sports Hall. A cleaner called "Sally" (pseudonym) heard a little girl giggle loudly inside a cleaning cupboard and an old man coughing on the corridor. Also, Sally and the other cleaners have heard basketballs being bounced around inside the main hall when it is locked. One caretaker is often apprehensive about unlocking the building in a morning, as on several occasions in January 2018 he heard squeaking, the sort made by friction between trainers and laminate flooring, coming from down the corridor when he was alone in the building. In the school's other Gymnasium, cold spots have been reported by cleaners and disembodied voices heard by caretakers who are unlocking the foyer at weekends for lettings groups.
Reputedly, the most haunted area of the school is the Humanities Department. It was the location of seances when the school was under construction. Some cleaners refuse to work on their own in the block and request to be transferred, after experiencing an oppressive atmosphere and hearing strange whispering. Doors that were wedged open have been seen and heard slamming shut during lessons, when there is no breeze. In one upstairs classroom in February 2017, a desk began vibrating wildly during the middle of a lesson when no one was touching it. At the back of the same classroom several months later, some dismantled metal shelves flew off a wooden cabinet when no one was near them. In a classroom on the opposite side of the corridor, a piano has been heard playing despite the area being empty and no pianos being located upstairs. When locking up in 2016, the site manager witnessed a deceased staff member looking out of a window. Mild poltergeist activity has occurred around the Tutorial Offices, involving filing cabinet drawers being heard opening and closing even though the office is locked. Caretakers have witnessed lights turning on and off by themselves after school hours when the department is locked up.
One morning in November 2021, during his duties opening the school, a caretaker was walking near the Geography Department when he noticed a woman with her hair in a bun standing by the whiteboard at the front of the classroom. He went to investigate, but the department was locked and no one was present.