Strangetastic: The Schoolhouse Ghost

"The year before I began my schooling, the River Derbane school burned to the ground in a tragic accident, killing one student and leaving several others with terrible scars. My older sister, whose apparent gift of “second sight” I have mentioned before, refused to attend school that day, and later told me she’d had a premonition of the flames. The boy who died, Hosea Bartich, was only a year older than me, but I don’t believe that I ever met him in life. However, my sister claimed that I came very near to meeting him afterward..."