Everett Martin

**Everett Martin** is the leader of the Split River High Afterlife Support Group.

## History

### Death

Everett Martin was the chemistry teacher at Split River in 1958. He died in a fire at the chemistry lab along Janet Hamilton on January 14th of that year in a fire that surviving students reported that he'd set.

### Maddie's Death

Mr. Martin was working with Janet when she repeatedly told him she couldn't do it. They were interrupted when Maddie Nears opened the door. Mr. Martin told Janet not to move, but she ran right into Maddie's body, throwing her back and taking over her body.

### Welcoming Maddie

Three days later, Mr. Martin welcomed Maddie to the support group. He asked her to introduce herself. When Rhonda asked Maddie how she died, he chastised her and reminded the group that she might not want to talk about it. They were all surprised that Maddie couldn't remember.

Later, Maddie came to the group and tried to get them to help her scare a confession out of someone. They told her they couldn't do that. Mr. Martin said they'd all been where she was and talking about it could help her.

When Maddie asked in group if anyone had even been seen by or talked to a living person, Mr. Martin reframed that into asking how they could say goodbye to the living. He also assigned Maddie to write her own obituary, which he said would help her process her death. He gave her sample obituaries to help her, but Maddie had no interest in moving on because she worried about who would take care of her mother. Mr. Martin told her that clinging to what she left behind would prolong her pain and give people false hope.

### Field Day

When Mr. Martin learned that Maddie was struggling with writing her obituary and adjusting to the monotony of her days, he suggested they have another Field Day. For them, Field Day meant getting out their frustrations by destroying things around the school. When Maddie said she was angry, Mr. Martin said that was good, that she'd need that anger.

### Movie Night

Mr. Martin led the group in making suggestions for weekend fun activities. Maddie was upset at them for doing that instead of helping her solve her murder. Despite this, they still planned and held their movie night, where they watched Ghost. Mr. Martin was surprised when Rhonda joined them. She told him she was ready to move on after being stuck there for 60 years. She wanted him to help her the same way he'd helped Janet. He was glad to hear that.

### Homecoming

Mr. Martin led the group in decorating for the Homecoming game, something they did every year to support Wally. At the game, Mr. Martin sat with Rhonda, who was starting to participate in things in an attempt to be able to cross over. While they watched the game, Mr. Martin noticed Maddie watching Claire. He asked Rhonda, but she said she didn't know anything about it. He asked Rhonda to keep an eye out for Maddie as he was worried she was backsliding in the progress she'd made in accepting her death.

### Maddie Straying

Mr. Martin tried to get the support group interested in the Mock Trial the living students were doing, but they were completely disinterested. He suggested they could make up their own case, but Maddie said that wouldn't help her unlock a repressed memory and tried to leave. Mr. Martin got her to stay and said she needed to work on moving on. The rest of the group decided to help Maddie work on recovering her lost memories.

Mr. Martin went to Rhonda, upset that she was helping Maddie. He said it didn't seem like Rhonda really wanted to cross over, but Rhonda insisted that she did.

Later, Mr. Martin watched as the lights flickered, indicating that Dawn had crossed over, something that hadn't happened when Janet left.

### Being Discovered

The other ghosts questioned Mr. Martin about the difference between the two leaving and suggested maybe looking into their past was how they moved forward. He told them it was too painful to do that and then told them he'd died in a fire a student set when he turned his back for a moment. He was able to save his class, but not himself. He also told them he didn't have more answers for them. Wally, Charley, and Rhonda later discovered that he was lying about who started the fire and about who died in it and he trapped them in the fallout shelter.

## Career

He was a chemistry teacher at Split River High School until he died in a fire he started.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Madison's Body
2. ↑ My So-Called Death
3. ↑ The Fault of Our Scars
4. ↑ Dead and Confused
5. ↑ Ghoul Intentions
6. ↑ The Twilight End Zone
7. ↑ Séance Anything