Colegio Salvatierra — the murdered student's ghost in Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur

The Colegio Salvatierra in Santa Rosalía, Baja California Sur, is a school haunted by a tragic legend. According to local accounts, a student was murdered on the school grounds — some versions say by a jealous rival, others by an abusive teacher — and the young person's ghost has haunted the building ever since. Students and staff report hearing crying in empty classrooms, EVP recordings of a young voice calling for help, and the apparition of a student in outdated school uniform standing in the corridors after hours. Santa Rosalía is an unusual town in Baja California — it was founded as a French mining company town in the 1880s, and its architecture includes a prefabricated iron church designed by Gustave Eiffel (of Eiffel Tower fame). The town's French colonial heritage, desert setting on the Sea of Cortez, and isolation in the Baja peninsula create a distinctive atmosphere unlike anywhere else in Mexico. The Colegio Salvatierra's haunting draws from both the town's particular colonial history and the broader Mexican tradition of murdered spirits who seek justice through supernatural manifestation.