Step into the eerie world of Paranormal Nightshift, where spine-chilling tales and firsthand accounts of the supernatural come to life. In this episode, titled ‘The Screaming Lady,’ we journey to Harrisburg, North Carolina, as Ryan shares a ghostly narrative that has haunted generations.
Growing up surrounded by church activities and childhood adventures, Ryan was no stranger to the legend of the ‘Screaming Lady.’ Attached to their small church was a preschool, its hallway illuminated at night, yet ominously shadowed. The ghostly tale warned against peering into its windows after dark, for you might witness the ghostly apparition of the Screaming Lady herself. The story became an inseparable part of Ryan’s youth, passed down from older kids to younger ones, a chilling tradition that persisted over time.
As Ryan evolved from a curious child to a responsible adult, he found himself in a remarkable position one late night after a Boy Scouts camping trip. Exhausted and surrounded by sleeping scouts in the church’s fellowship hall, the familiar light from the preschool’s breezeway beckoned to him. Torn between curiosity and disbelief, Ryan, now a grownup with keys in hand, decided to confront the ghostly legend that had haunted his past.
Stepping into the preschool, Ryan’s disbelief shattered as he encountered the spectral form of the Screaming Lady. A ghastly figure with fangs, bathed in an eerie light, chased him down the hallway, unleashing a blood-curdling scream. Terrified and shaken, Ryan retreated to the fellowship hall, questioning his own skepticism. Throughout the restless night, he stood guard, ensuring the safety of the slumbering scouts from the unknown entity.
The next morning, haunted by his experience, Ryan confided in a lifelong mentor – the preacher and scoutmaster of the church. To his astonishment, the mentor’s response shattered his skepticism. The mentor reminded Ryan that the tales he had heard throughout his life carried a truth that transcended disbelief – that some legends, no matter how inexplicable, are grounded in reality. They simply demand respect and adherence to their unspoken rules.
As the episode concludes, Ryan reflects on the power of folklore and the energy they acquire through storytelling. Legends, like the Screaming Lady, don’t always require rational explanations; they thrive on the shared experiences of those who dare to venture into the unknown. Ryan now passes down the same warning to his own children, honoring a tradition that unites generations through spine-tingling tales of the paranormal.
Join us on Paranormal Nightshift as we unravel the mysteries that lurk beyond the veil of the ordinary. Listen in, and remember – some stories are more than just tales in the dark; they’re echoes of a reality we may never fully comprehend.
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The Lady in White appeared
Welcome to Paranormal Night
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Shift your home for all things
that go bump in the dark and
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your fan stories told here.
Today’s story comes from
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Harrisburg, NC, and it’s called
The Screaming Lady, Ryan writes
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in.
I kind of grew up like a lot of
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kids down here, just we went to
church, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts,
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Venture scouts.
Everything we did kind of was
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with the church.
We played baseball, soccer, all
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that stuff, but it’s a really
kind of small church.
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We all knew each other.
The older kids would tell us the
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story of the screaming lady.
See, the church had a preschool
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attached to it from like, a
carport, basically a walkway.
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It was illuminated and lit up,
but at night you could see
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directly into the hallway and it
was kind of creepy, just
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everything was very dark in the
hallway and you couldn’t get
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into it, but it was just creepy.
And the ghost story was, don’t
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look in that window at night.
You’ll see the screen lady, but
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we had to pass it to go
everywhere.
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That door was where we go to get
into the gym, where we would go
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to get into the Cub Scout
office.
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You had to pass the door and it
nobody wanted to ever look at
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it.
You’d see even the older kids
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covering their face when they
pass the door because if she
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sees you, she’ll scream at you.
Nobody knows how these silly
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ghost stories and superstitions
start, but it’s the story that
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they told me when I was a kid,
and it’s the story that I got
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told and that I’ve told the
younger kids, and now I’m a dad
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who has kids that are involved
in this Cub Scout troop.
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And I told them the same story.
Fellowship Hall is kind of our
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meeting place.
Everybody goes into the
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Phillipship Hall and then the
scouts go one way, baseball goes
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the other way, but everything is
met in the fellowship hall.
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And of course that’s the door
that leads into the preschool
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where the screaming lady lives.
We were on our way back from a
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camping trip.
Boy Scouts has a thing called
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the Out Island Adventure.
It’s really cool.
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You actually go down to Key
West, FL and basically live like
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Survivor forever.
But we all came back and we got
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held up in traffic in Atlanta
and what should have had us back
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by 10:00 now it was like 2 in
the morning.
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A lot of the parents said, hey,
can’t the kids just sleep there
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and we’ll pick them up in the
morning?
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And I thought it was a great
idea.
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So we just rolled out sleeping
bags in the fellowship hall.
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We had about 1415 Boy Scouts and
a couple adults, but everybody
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was exhausted.
So sleeping bags were rolled out
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and everybody was sleeping in
the fellowship hall.
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And that’s when I started seeing
it.
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The light, the light on the
breezeway.
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The same light that I’ve known
my entire life.
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The same story started running
through my head of the screaming
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lady.
Don’t look in the window, don’t
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look in the window.
Call it exhaustion or curiosity,
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but I actually had the keys this
time.
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I was a grown up.
I could go in there if I wanted
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to go in there.
So I did open the doors just to
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walk around.
I was a grown up, you know, I
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didn’t believe in these ghost
stories anymore.
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I was going to prove myself
wrong because you know, why not?
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Walked around into the
preschool, opening the door, and
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that’s what I saw her.
The screaming lady was there.
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She came down the hallway,
screaming as loud as she could
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at me.
This white floating figure.
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It was real.
It was actually chasing me down,
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this white floating figure with
bangs, screaming at me down the
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hallway.
Get out.
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I freaked out and I ran into the
fellowship hall.
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I’m the adult here.
I’m.
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I’m not supposed to keep these
kids safe.
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What?
What am I doing?
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I stayed up the rest of the
night, just looking.
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Just sitting in a chair right
next to the door to make sure I
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guess these kids were were safe,
that she wasn’t going to come
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through.
I was exhausted.
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I sat there all night just
making sure that nobody went
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into the preschool.
The next morning, a lot of the
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parents came and picked up the
kids pretty early.
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And our preacher, our scout
master, a man that I had known
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my entire life, came to me, said
you hadn’t slept.
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You look like garbage.
What’s wrong, man?
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I saw her.
I went into the preschool last
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night.
She’s real.
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I know she’s real.
I’ve been telling you that your
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whole life.
But it.
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But it’s real.
I know.
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We all know.
I’ve been telling you your whole
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life.
It’s real.
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Why wouldn’t you believe us?
What is it?
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Can you explain it?
No.
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Nobody can explain it.
You just follow the rules and
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don’t go in there.
Legends have to start somewhere.
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They don’t have to have a story.
They don’t have to have an
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explanation.
But the more we talk about them,
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the more energy we give them.
There was a reason that grownups
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were covering their faces when
they passed that door.
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It’s because they knew she was
real.
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I tell my kids the same thing.
Just don’t go in there, man.
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I love this story because we had
something like that growing up,
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too.
Tell me your small town legends.
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Tell me your stories that
everybody told you were real and
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that you just follow the rules,
like holding your breath past
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the cemetery.
Tell me all those stories and
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thanks for watching Paranormal
Night Shift.