Bath School Disaster Memorial Park- Bath, MI
1927
Andrew Kehoe was a member of the school board and local farmer. A new property tax was levied that would fund the construction of a new school building.
The new tax put Kehoe into financial trouble, or so he believed, and the bank had foreclosed on his farm.
Dude snapped.
May 18, 1927
For the past few months, Kehoe had been hiding dynamite and other common explosives of the time period all over the school grounds. He had also filled his car up with shrapnel, debris, and more dynamite. On the morning of May 18, he put put the plan into action.
The first thing that he did that morning was bash his wife, Nellie’s head in and threw her body in a wheelbarrow. He then tied up all of his farm animals, and used some more of his explosives to destroy the farm. As his farm burned with the animals inside, he got into his car, and drove toward the school. Good thing for him, all fire departments and authorities had their hands full with the farm. That gave him the opportunity to do the unthinkable.
Approximately 10 minutes after the farm went up, the northern wing of the school exploded. I’m not going to go into elaborate details about the carnage that ensued immediately thereafter. Witnesses claimed that very soon after the explosion, there were over a hundred men trying to dig survivors out, and many woman were there weeping due to the loss of their children, thirty-seven children to be exact, between the ages of 7 & 13.
Killing his wife, 37 children and 2 teachers wasn’t enough for Kehoe. No, this guy had to keep going. Around thirty minutes later, he comes strolling up to the school in his car, and motions to the superintendent, Emory E. Huyck. Superintendent Huyck walked up to the car. Kehoe pulled out a rifle, and 
fired it into his back seat igniting the dynamite in the car. That explosion not only killed Huyck, but 3 more innocent bystanders, one of them being another young student. The explosion also killed Andrew Kehoe. In the picture to the right, you can see what was left of Kehoe’s car, not much.
The newspapers had a field day, and Kehoe had a last message for all involved. Officials found a wooden sign attached to one of his fences on his destroyed farm which said, “Criminals are made, not born.”
Field Report
Members of Beyond Paranormal Investigations had visited this location with another nameless ghost hunters group in the area. The other team gathered their psychic impressions, EMF readings, and their pictures of orbs calling the place ‘haunted’.
Beyond Paranormal Investigations returned to RE-investigate the area. Meter readings on the previous visit were debunked due to under ground power lines. Pictures or orbs were captured, but Beyond Paranormal does not consider orbs to be valid paranormal evidence.
The Verdict
At this time there is not enough information to determine if the place is haunted.
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