Premise; Welcome to Villanova Preparatory School, located just outside of Cambridge, New Hampshire. Set high atop Hawthorne Hill, the beautiful school that is Villanova Prep overlooks the small town of Cambridge. Villanova is a fairly large school, housing around 5,00 people, including staff residences. Villanova Prep offers and education for all students from grades k-7, which is the lower school and 8-12, being the upper school. Having their own separate buildings, the upper and lower schools very rarely interact.
Before becoming a school in 1914, Villanova was previously an insane asylum. One of the first facilities of its kind, it was a housing facility for those who couldn't take care of themselves, those who needed others to take care of them. Not just the mentally insane, but those people with disabilities. It was a place for their families, who were ashamed of them to just dump them to be forgotten. The Granville Asylum, was also one of the top places on the east coast for mental 'treatment', specializing in lobotomies, and shock treatments. Being the most advanced of it's time, many people with mentally insane or disabled family members sent them to Granville. At the asylum, the workers weren't exactly the most friendly of people, actually tormenting and taunting the patients that were there. Often times if a patient escaped, nobody would bother to look, with the asylum being surrounded by woods, they didn't feel the need or think that the escapee would survive. If the workers did decide that it was worth it to find the escapee, they often used tunnels built under the building to find them. Those very same tunnels still exist to this day. After a patient would die at Granville, they were buried in an unmarked grave in the old cemetery behind the building. The graves were often marked with just a number, adding up to 500+ unmarked graves in that cemetery in Granville's 60 years of running. When Granville closed it's doors to the mentally unstable in 1912, due to not enough space, the patients were just left to find their own way. When closing that same year, all the patients left in the facility were left to fend for themselves and find their way out. Most of the patients were left there, not being picked up by their families.
Just two years after closing, Villanova opened. After Granville closed it's doors, nobody wanted the building to just rot. The developers decided it would be good to erect a private school. The tunnels still remained, as did a few other remnants of the old insane asylum. The unmarked graves were torn up messily, and new grass was planted over. Over the years many rumors have circulated, stating that the big building atop Hawthorne Hill was haunted. During its 94 years of being a school, there have been quite a few suicides committed. The school, having very rich students attending, the parents of those few how have killed themselves, often over compensate the school in hopes of covering up the scandal. You would think that parents would actually care a bit more, but really their reputations are the only things kept in mind. Even after these suicides, and a few disappearances, Villanova has kept its doors open, and every year new students pile in.
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