School Spirits Season 3 Embraces Darker, More Horrifying Lore

School Spirits has long mixed comedy with supernatural drama, but its third season takes a deliberate turn toward horror by digging into the town of Split River and the high school's haunted past. The series shifts its focus from isolated ghostly antics to a deep, disturbing backstory that reshapes the stakes for both the living and the dead.

The season opens with Maddie Nears returned to her body and Simon Elroy trapped among the ghosts, and soon reveals a church beneath Split River High where children drowned after the river was split in half. Alfred Van Heidt, a colonizing figure, had locked those children in the church and killed them to break the townspeople’s spirits; the site has since drawn multiple ghosts and tied into other tragedies, including the bus crash that killed Quinn.

Earlier scares — like marks that replay a ghost’s death and the unsettling possession of human bodies by figures such as Mr. Martin and Janet — now sit alongside darker, more supernatural forces.

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