"Little Jack Murphy" is the ghost of a boy said to have had locker 237, a haunted locker. He turns out to be just one of Fern's stories, although being slightly based on a real student named Jay Mayberry. After he was assigned the locker, strange misfortunes began happening to him. A black cat crossed his path, he rode his bike into a bush, stepped in wet cement, and got his lunch box stolen by a dog. Strange events continued until, one day, he just disappeared.