NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. – Emergency services responded to Aaron Hernandez Elementary School within minutes on Tuesday night, but the auditorium was already a scene of utter devastation. “I’m still trying to figure out what happened in there,” recalled Ed Moppet of E. Washington St., uncle of a fifth-grade clarinet player. “There was a stampede to get out of the doors, but I looked back. And I wish I didn’t. Oh God, I wish I didn’t.”
The Holiday Band Concert
At 6:30 PM the auditorium was nearly at capacity for the Fourth and Fifth Grade Winter Wonder Band Holiday Band Recital. Parents, grandparents and siblings filled the seats as the young musicians took the stage, led by first-year Band Director Monica D’Andruzzi. Only the rustle of programs could be heard as the twenty-two nine- and ten-year-olds readied their instruments and began to play the first number, “Deck The Halls.”
“We’re still gathering information, obviously,” said Hernandez Elementary Principal Sonny Ramone, Jr. in a press conference, “and—and a full— We want to send our thoughts and prayers…I’m sorry, I’m going to be sick–”
At 6:33 the band began to play. Immediately, babies in the audience screamed and waves of nausea passed over the other attendees. According to eyewitnesses who escaped, the room was ringing with the sound of twenty-two musicians, each playing a different wrong note simultaneously. It was a foul chord that was unlike anything anyone in attendance had heard before. Director D’Andruzzi put down her baton to start the song over, but the chord hung in the air, vibrating, and somehow growing louder. That’s when the true horror began.
Witness Statements
“I’ve been a structural engineer for forty years,” said “Big” Dave Ellsworth, a fan of youth music with no children of his own, “and I obviously know that every object can be ripped to shreds if you hit the exact resonating frequency. But for that to happen to an auditorium, it’s insane. There was something else going on in there. Do you believe in the devil?”
Ellsworth isn’t the only witness to cite supernatural forces at play. Former New England Patriot staffer John Jastremski, still living in the area, described what he saw: “Once everything started shaking and the lights exploded, just about everyone started running for the doors. But I wanted to see what was going on so I put my flashlight on and went down by the stage. Once you were down there, you could see this crack growing in the floor. It was inky, like looking at the night sky, but the edges of it were like skin–like the flaps around a cut after you’ve been sittin’ in the bath for a while. Super nasty! And it was growin’! The noise was opening that bad Larry up!
“I gave it two fingers, just to say I did, and they came out covered in…something sticky. Like…tar. But it was spreadin’ so fast I had to back away. Right then this thing flew out. Like a wicked big bird, or a shadow, or something–vibrating just like that note. Scared the bag outta me!”
Other witnesses reported seeing a ‘shade’ or ‘wraith’ in the auditorium, and one student described the destruction as “sigma.” No casualties have been reported, but all the Band instruments were broken except for one tuba.
Aaron Hernandez Elementary School was built in 2015 at the intersection of Route 1A and a really terrible ley line.
Ronald Sampson
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