What Happened At El Segundo

What Happened At El Segundo is an extra content page dropped in the transcript of Seeled on January 28, 2022. It is currently offline.

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This page was written by Eidolon García and discusses what happened at the boarding school El Segundo Academy, where Mabel Martin went to school. The site itself is a summary of how El Segundo came to be and eventually burned down. It focuses on April 3rd, 2003, in which the entire school burned down in unexplainable circumstances. It also discusses Maribeth Parker and her role in the school. Now, past Curator was like "haha, no point in summarizing it again!" but actually this is a free excuse to talk about ESA! Let's go!

Background (Pre-2003)
El Segundo was a "pseudo-therapeutic, borderline militaristic" school for troubled girls located in California. It was founded by Gertrude Edgeworth, who used to experiment on kids in the '40s and '50s. It engaged in unhealthy punishments for its teenage residents. In the 2002-2003 school year, only 54 girls were enrolled, living stuck together in two dorms meant to hold only 40 people total. A former student named Elizabeth Hook was found dead by an ESA sophomore in September. Everything continued to get weirder from there: the music department floods; students become trapped by a circled group of wild foxes; a student named Talia Moore has a red oak fall on her; strange sounds echo through Meredith Dorm; eggs are found full of stones; part of the school collapses.

As if the school environment can't get worse, girls began to regularly pass out in assembly and the school's horses went missing. The school's director, Ron Newman, also went missing and was found covered in black mud five days later. Rattlesnakes were found in his office. His spot at the school was never filled after he went to an assisted living facility, which meant that the three kids who stayed at ESA over winter break were left alone during a blizzard.

After winter break, the 38 remaining ESA girls are all crushed into Meredith dorm, sleeping four to a room. Vines began to grow into the building. Two freshmen-- Laura Jeung and Kinsey McAllister-- got into a fistfight and their dorm monitor burnt all of their personal possessions. Kinsey got third-degree burns while trying to grab a stuffed animal from the fire and was taken out of El Segundo by her parents.

April 3rd, 2003
At 9:18 A.M, Callie placed a call to the Jericho fire department. She was terrified that someone was going to find her and hung up before the switchboard operator could figure out what was going on. Two Jericho police officers, Officer Holbrook and Officer Avila, were sent to ESA after the call was traced. Maribeth Parker-- the vice-dean of students-- refused to let them in. When the cops were about to leave, a window exploded with black smoke, and they forced their way into the building past Parker. Avila died and Holbrook received severe burn wounds. Meredith dorm flooded while the main ESA building (and the running field) burned for 17 hours straight. Maribeth Parker disappeared and strange artifacts were found in her office.