Lotus in jade well — nguyen thi minh khai high school (ho chi minh

Back in the day, all students were required khổng lồ speak French at all times, & anyone caught speaking Vietnamese would be punished. 

At the height of the anti-colonial climate in the late 1940s & early 1950s, a great number of students at the school initiated and joined citywide patriotic movements.

After 1975, the school was renamed Nguyễn Thị minh khai High School và converted into a co-ed high school. 

One century has passed since the school’s inauguration. The school leaders have managed lớn combine its historic heritage with modern developments và convenience. 

The overall appearance of the school và its buildings have barely changed at all, even though a modern swimming pool has been built & classrooms are better equipped.

Nonetheless, the sense of modernity that envelopes the school seemingly can’t chase away the ghosts of the past.

The spooky stories that happened here

After the school’s name was changed to Gia Long Girls’ High School in 1950, students were required khổng lồ wear purple áo dài as school uniforms. 

For this reason, the school was later called the school of girls in purple áo dài (trường cô gái sinh áo tím). This fond nickname is still popular among local students until today. 

“I heard from my seniors that a student, who went khổng lồ school here a very long time ago, took her own life in the clock tower because of exam pressure. She died wearing her uniform, which was a purple áo dài. The school management organized a worship session for her after that. However, for some mysterious reasons, many students have reported seeing a ghost at the clock tower. Because I’ve heard too many creepy stories about the clock tower, I feel chills down my spine every time I look at it,” – a student shared.

According lớn many students here, the clock tower has remained locked & off-limits for as long as anyone can remember.

Nonetheless, the clock tower is not the only place where students have reported seeing paranormal sightings.

Many have reported hearing creepy sounds coming from empty classrooms & the humming tunes inside vacant restrooms.

According to former students here, the passage that connects block A và block B also has its fair cốt truyện of mysteriousness.

A student shared, “When I was in grade 11, I was assigned morning duties at a block facing Dien Bien Phu Street. Everything went smooth-sailing until my final day. It was early in the morning và everything was still dark. During my shift, my friends asked me to come upstairs to play with them. I let them go first. When I went up, I didn’t see anyone. I called and nobody replied. I thought to lớn myself that maybe they had gone downstairs so I went down again looking for them. 

A while later, I heard that my friends were punished by my teacher for messing around too loud. I felt lucky that I wasn’t with them in the first place. All of a sudden, my friend asked me why I didn’t get punished even though I was also there messing around with them. I was shocked and told them that I was downstairs waiting for them and not involved in their playful activities.

My friend insisted that I was also there with them. Another friend even said that she heard me screaming và having fun, which was absolutely not true. After that incident, I never went to lớn that block again.”

This student is certainly not the only one making such a decision, because this block also gets a bad rap among other students. As surreal as it is, some students have reported seeing doppelgangers and hallucinations when they were at the block.