Elementary School Spirits, Something Upstairs & Face in the Asylum | 456

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spk_0 Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporter, Jane.

spk_0 Thank you so much for making the show possible.

spk_0 Welcome back to Paranormal Mysteries, and thank you for joining me as we explore the unknown.

spk_0 I'm your host, Nick Ryan. Tonight, several of the experiences that I'll be featuring are a bit shorter than

spk_0 others. As many of you know, I do my best to read every experience that I receive, and a fair majority of the

spk_0 reports that come across my desk tend to be pretty brief. However, I believe everyone's experience deserves to be heard.

spk_0 So tonight, that's primarily what I'll be focusing on. With that said though, if you've submitted an experience that I haven't

spk_0 read yet, please feel free to resubmit it, or even send me a quick email to verify that I've received it.

spk_0 Sometimes emails can get lost in a shuffle, but it's more than likely that your story is just waiting to be scheduled.

spk_0 Either way though, don't hesitate to reach out to me, and I'll see what I can do. I also appreciate you bearing with me as my voice isn't cooperating with me today, but I'll do the best I can.

spk_0 Now, let's begin tonight's journey with Jamie, who calls their experience. Granma's ghost.

spk_0 Jamie says,

spk_0 The night after her funeral, I was getting ready to go to bed. I started to lay down on the left side, and when I had almost closed my eyes, I saw a shadowy figure that was paper white. It started to move over to me with an arm reaching out.

spk_0 I got super freaked out, and I turned over to my right hand side. A few moments later, I turned back over, and the figure had completely disappeared.

spk_0 To this day, I wonder if it was my grandma letting me know that she was okay.

spk_0 I hope to hear my story on your podcast.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from Brittany, and Brittany's experience is called Ghost in the Window.

spk_0 Hey, Nick, I absolutely love your podcast. My son and I listen to you often, and we always bond and discuss your shows after we hear them. Thank you for always keeping us locked in.

spk_0 My story starts in the summer of 2020. My niece and I decided to take a trip to the Trans-Elegini Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia.

spk_0 The tour did have a guide, and was very informative. It was so awesome to learn the history of this place.

spk_0 During the tour, the guide often told us to just take photos of the windows and doors, and to go back later and go through them.

spk_0 Often, people wouldn't see anything initially, but when they got home and went through the photos, they'd see something.

spk_0 Well, he was right. I had been in one of the big rooms where the residents of the Asylum would gather, such as a craft room or the cafeteria.

spk_0 I'm not sure which one. However, I was just taking photos of windows and doors throughout, and once I got home, I was looking through the photos, and I stopped when I saw a face in the window.

spk_0 I could make out all of this man's features, and still to this day I can see his face.

spk_0 But unfortunately, I no longer have the photo. It was the craziest photo as I had just been in the spot that I had taken the photo, and no one in our group looked anything like this man.

spk_0 I didn't feel scared or unsafe at any point during the tour. However, on one of the floors, I did get a huge scratch down my back that burned for a while.

spk_0 But even with the scratch, it was the best experience and the most informative tour of any Asylum that I've ever been to.

spk_0 Thank you for reading my submission.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from Zane. Zane's story is called, touched by a sailor's soul.

spk_0 Hi, Nick. I've been listening to your podcast since the 24th episode, and I finally have the courage to share my experience.

spk_0 The experience that I'm sharing with you and everyone else is when I was on vacation going from Yere, Pennsylvania to Savannah, Georgia.

spk_0 I am currently in Savannah about to go on an investigation with my paranormal junkie friends.

spk_0 This took place on the haunted USS Yorktown, which is located in Charleston Bay.

spk_0 The USS Yorktown is a CV-10 class aircraft carrier that was going to be launched in April, as well as the ceremony to give the ship good luck,

spk_0 which is to have the first lady smash a bottle of champagne against the hull.

spk_0 The first lady was Eleanor Roosevelt, but while the ceremony to bless the ship was going on, the USS Yorktown launched by itself.

spk_0 So to make sure the ship wasn't cursed, she threw it at the ship with a few seconds to spare.

spk_0 The Yorktown was in a lot of minor battles in the Pacific and was only damaged once, but pretty severely.

spk_0 It was hit by a high altitude timed bomb, and it went right through one of its turrets and severed the legs of a Marine.

spk_0 Then it changed course and exploded in the Marine barracks, instantly killing two men and injuring one other.

spk_0 The man with a severed legs acted fast and applied turnipits to both of his legs to stop the bleeding, but he later died from the shrapnel.

spk_0 That was just some of the history of its action, but now for my experience.

spk_0 We entered the Yorktown and went to the lower decks and made our way up.

spk_0 We all had walkie-talkies in case we got lost, which could be easy because of how big aircraft carriers are, and we moved up and got to a room where the burn injuries were dealt with.

spk_0 So I shut out the lights and I sat in the middle of the room and I started asking EVP questions.

spk_0 Like, are there any spirits that would like to talk to me? Or what is your name, etc.?

spk_0 I got a bone-chilling response on the question, are there any spirits here that would like to talk to me? And it said, help me.

spk_0 The room then got really cold, and I felt something brush up against the left side of me, from head to toe.

spk_0 Then I heard a lot of running down the hall coming towards me, but there was nothing there.

spk_0 So then I left the motion detector doorbell, which works just as well as the fancy ones, but for really cheap.

spk_0 As the investigation came to an end, nothing else happened other than some creaking, but that was probably just the ship swaying on the waves.

spk_0 That is the end of this experience, but I hope that I will have many more to share soon enough.

spk_0 Thanks. Zane.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from Martine, and Martine says this.

spk_0 Hello. I have a story that I'd like to share for your podcast, and it's my most memorable one.

spk_0 I was living in Vancouver, and the house I resided in was being taken back over by the owners. I was the last one to move out.

spk_0 As my move out day was getting closer, the apartment upstairs was already vacant. This happened a few times, and my roommate was home once without me, when this occurred.

spk_0 I was home watching TV when I could hear voices upstairs and people walking around. I didn't think anything of it, and that maybe the property manager was up there inspecting.

spk_0 A few days after this, it happened again and again, in which the commotion was getting louder and louder.

spk_0 Then one day I decided to go and take a look at what was going on as I found the noises to be worrisome. I even brought a baseball bat just in case.

spk_0 As I opened the door, I shouted out, who's up there? What are you doing here? But there was no answer. I then walked up the steps to the living area.

spk_0 Everything was empty, no leftover furniture, nothing in the cupboards or the closets. It was eerily quiet and cold as I looked around.

spk_0 My heart was racing since I had first declared my intention of finding out who was up there, but there was nothing. It was just me, and my whole body was covered in goosebumps.

spk_0 So I freaked out, and I ran back to the safety of my apartment. I decided to ignore this phenomenon, although I did warn a temporary roommate that this was going on.

spk_0 He left it off and said that he didn't believe in such things. Then, though, one night I came home and he was pale as a ghost and frightened.

spk_0 I asked him what was going on, and he told me that he had heard people and noises upstairs, and he went up to investigate.

spk_0 However, he came to the same conclusion that I did, but he couldn't believe that when he came back down to our apartment, these sounds started all over again.

spk_0 It really disturbed him since he knew that it was empty upstairs. All I could say to help was that they were harmless, and that everything was going to be okay.

spk_0 It was only when I lived there on my own that these strange things happened, and hearing floorboards creak with footsteps, took it to a whole new level.

spk_0 Thank you. Martine.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from KINGA, and KINGA had this to say.

spk_0 Hello, Mick. I've wanted to write to you for a couple of months. I'm a huge fan of your podcast. I listened to many episodes a day because of my commuting to school.

spk_0 I prefer listener stories because of the variety, but I know that you do and have done many themed episodes.

spk_0 I thought that maybe a good idea for an episode like that would be something about safely communicating with dead people.

spk_0 There are many stories of being possessed or other nasty things that happen to those who tried.

spk_0 In 2019, my beloved grandfather passed away from cancer. He was one of the best people I've ever met or heard of.

spk_0 You know that one person in a family that is literally iconic? Well, that's the kind of person he was. I really miss him, and since I started listening to your podcast, I was thinking of a safe way to contact him.

spk_0 As far as I'm concerned, I don't have many significant paranormal activity stories, only that I keep seeing a person in church who looks almost identical to my dead grandfather.

spk_0 I don't go there regularly because I usually visit the church in a different town and I don't go on regular hours.

spk_0 Despite that, I can't remember a time when I didn't see him there. Any time I see him, I feel like he's looking directly at me, and he's always standing in the same place.

spk_0 There's one more thing though. The way that I acknowledged my grandfather's death was weird. I was at my friend's house and my mom came to pick me up.

spk_0 We said our goodbyes with the friend and her mom after usual goodbye-ish small talk. We then go out to the door, and the first thing that I said to my mom wasn't even high or anything else.

spk_0 I literally said, is grandpa alive? The question weirded my mom out because you would expect someone to say, is grandpa okay, or even how's grandpa doing?

spk_0 That was when my mom told me that he was already gone. I remember not feeling much. His death wasn't easy for me, but even on the day of his funeral, I wasn't feeling sad or melancholy.

spk_0 I actually felt positive, and for a long time after, it made me believe that something was wrong with me.

spk_0 Now I believe that I didn't really believe his passing as it was a huge trigger for me.

spk_0 Now that it's been a couple of years, I feel all the bad feelings that people who have lost someone usually feel.

spk_0 Anyway, I really appreciate your work, and I'd love to hear what you have to say on the mention topic, and I wish you all the best.

spk_0 KINGA

spk_0 KINGA, I think that's an excellent idea, and I'll be sure to put it into an upcoming episode. And I appreciate your input.

spk_0 Before I continue, please consider showing your support by subscribing, sharing, and giving the podcast a positive review.

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spk_0 You can even join my Patreon membership for free, and get access to all of my future updates.

spk_0 And of course, just listening to the show is the best support of all, and I'm grateful to have you here.

spk_0 Now please stay tuned, and I'll be right back after these brief messages.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from Peter. And Peter's experience is called Haunted Home.

spk_0 Hello Nick, I just want to say that I love your podcast, and it makes my commute to work so much better.

spk_0 The experiences I'm going to tell you about aren't my own, but come to me from my mom.

spk_0 For some background, my family is from Laos, which is a very devout Buddhist country. For the first few years of my life, my parents and I shared a bedroom, as our house was fairly small.

spk_0 One day, my mom was sleeping, and suddenly felt like someone or something was on top of her and choking her. Needless to say, she was terrified, and she struggled against whatever was doing this, until the necklace that she was wearing fell out of her shirt, and the choking suddenly stopped.

spk_0 On her necklace, she wears a pendant of the Buddha, and she firmly believed that this protected her, from harm.

spk_0 Another experience that she had was when she was taking a nap on the couch that faces the stairs to the second floor.

spk_0 She woke up and saw a woman completely in white, with long white hair, slowly walk or drift from one end of the upstairs landing to the other.

spk_0 She said a few other experiences, but these two are the ones that stick out the most in my mind.

spk_0 Again, thank you for your podcast.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from KJ, and KJ's experience is called Town Hall Ghosts.

spk_0 KJ says,

spk_0 We live near a small historic town in Canada, and this town is particularly known for its ghosts.

spk_0 My husband, Jay, was working in the town hall with two co-workers when he heard someone singing in the basement.

spk_0 He thought that it was one of his co-workers playing a joke, so he thought that it would be funny to prank them back.

spk_0 So Jay snuck down the back stairs to scare his co-worker, but he found no one there, and the singing suddenly stopped.

spk_0 So he went back upstairs and looked outside, and both co-workers were outside, smoking a cigarette.

spk_0 When he asked them about the singing, they said that they had both been outside the entire time, and they had no idea.

spk_0 Fast forward a few weeks later, and my husband and I were back at the same town hall finishing the job, because Jay didn't want to go alone.

spk_0 We were standing behind the stage, and we started hearing what sounded like the large set of canvases smacked together as if they were tipping.

spk_0 Then we heard footsteps coming up behind us, so we turned around, but there was no one there, but the footsteps continued right past us.

spk_0 Then they sped up to a run as they ran up the wall and all the way down the ceiling to the front of the town hall.

spk_0 We had time to look at each other and stand and listen for about 45 seconds. There were at least a few hundred steps.

spk_0 It was not an animal's run, and it sounded like a person with shoes on.

spk_0 We were the only two people there that evening.

spk_0 Our next experience comes to us from Anonymous, and their experience is called Ghosts of Dekusville Elementary School.

spk_0 Hello, Nick. I'm a huge fan of the show, and I wanted to share with you one of the few paranormal experiences that I've had while attending college.

spk_0 In this story, I'm really more of a person retelling others' experiences, but I did fully believe them to be true because of the energy that I felt there, as well as seeing telltale signs of a haunting.

spk_0 The year was 2019, and I was in my senior year of college as an elementary education major.

spk_0 In your final semester, you are with a student teacher and are assigned to a school.

spk_0 I was assigned to Dekusville Elementary in Pickens County, South Carolina.

spk_0 I'm about to share with you what I witnessed and heard in this quiet and dark corner of South Carolina.

spk_0 Upon learning of my assignment, I got to researching the school as we are so encouraged to do, because you want to be mentally prepared, and you want to structure your classroom to your students' needs.

spk_0 In that research, I learned that Dekusville has a very dark, unsettling history, including its elementary school, as that discovered several years back that the school experienced the tragedy in which two students that were siblings were taken home by their mother after school dismissed.

spk_0 They never returned because their mother tragically murdered them.

spk_0 Regardless of learning of this tragic and disturbing news, though, I went into that school with a heart to teach, and the hope to make a positive impact on the students.

spk_0 Every day I would arrive early with the other staff, and I noticed that it was always extremely cold in the building, even when the air was not flowing, and honestly it was just super cold in certain parts of the classroom I was teaching in.

spk_0 It was normal for students and teachers alike to need a sweater or jacket when in the building.

spk_0 Additionally, I always noticed lights, and particular hanging polka dots they had in the entranceway swinging back and forth, but I never thought anything of it because I was not as aware of the supernatural at that point, and I just thought that it was the air conditioning.

spk_0 One afternoon, myself and the teacher that I was working with and her assistant were sitting in just chatting after school, when we randomly got into supernatural topics.

spk_0 I shared my first paranormal experience at what we call Crybaby Bridge in Upstate, referring to a haunted bridge in Anderson, South Carolina.

spk_0 It's another story that I'll share another day.

spk_0 After telling my terrifying tale, they both kind of laughed, and then told me, you know this school is haunted right? And I laughed and said, no it's not.

spk_0 I then saw them both look at each other, and they then assured me that it indeed was.

spk_0 Why do you think it's always cold in the building, and random lights are flickering and swinging, they said?

spk_0 They also told me that even the middle school next door has a ghost of a little girl that they've named Natalie.

spk_0 I was hesitant to believe, but after my first paranormal experience, I knew that these things were very real.

spk_0 Needless to say, these co-workers had my attention. In fact, these ladies were so excited to talk about the subject of the paranormal occurrences at the school, they took me to other staff to hear their stories, probably to show me that they weren't making this up.

spk_0 The school janitors both shared their experiences, with one mentioning staying later in the evening, and seeing a tall man in a civil war uniform going in and out of the classrooms.

spk_0 The other one stayed behind during a fire drill to clean the bathroom, and heard a little scream saying, make it stop, and it sounded exactly like a student that we were teaching.

spk_0 But the janitor knew for sure there were no students in the building, or in the bathroom due to them all being outside during the fire drill.

spk_0 In fact, he was even able to video record the voice, and he showed it to me, and I remember the shivers it gave me down my spine.

spk_0 The last story that I heard about that day was a teacher that stayed behind with her daughter, planning and preparing for a fun lesson the next day.

spk_0 Everyone had gone home for the day. This they knew for sure because the building was locked, known was in the parking lot, and also the staff had made sure when she would leave the building that she would lock the door and engage the security system.

spk_0 While they were wrapping up their preparations, they heard a man whistling a tune in footsteps in the distance of the hallway. The daughters slowly turned to her mother and asked, Mommy, did you hear that?

spk_0 This staff member said that it wasn't two seconds later that they dropped what they were doing, grabbed their things, and they went home.

spk_0 While she was telling me this story, an administration staff overheard, and came up and asked, are y'all telling the student teacher about air a death?

spk_0 It's kind of like Meridaeth, but put an air instead of mayor at the beginning.

spk_0 All the staff enthusiastically told her yes, and she proceeded to tell me, yep, you're gonna see a lot of swinging banners, lights, and polka dot swinging.

spk_0 Aira death is what we call the ghost that hangs on to all the lights. We've even had professionals come out here, and they've all reported, no air flow.

spk_0 I was honestly too stunned to speak after hearing these stories, but my whole time there, the lights definitely flickered and swung aggressively, and I definitely didn't stay long enough in the evenings to find out if there were any ghost sightings, or hear their sounds of eerie whistling tunes.

spk_0 There were more occurrences there for sure, with whatever was dwelling in that school, and there was an undeniable heavy feeling upon the building.

spk_0 As amazingly beautiful of a place as the Greenville, Spartanburg, and Pickens County areas in South Carolina are, they do have an undeniable haunting history and terrifying tales, and this is simply the tip of the iceberg of its haunting past.

spk_0 Our next experience of the night comes to us from Kate, and Kate's experience is called a grateful ghost.

spk_0 Pynik, I've been listening to your podcast for a few months now, and I've binge listened to all of it. I really enjoy people's stories and learning about paranormal phenomena such as the Mothman.

spk_0 I'm a true believer of the paranormal, and I have a few stories to share. Today though, I thought I'd share a story that came to mind when listening to podcast number 341, as the themes were somewhat similar. All the names in my experience have been changed.

spk_0 Some years ago, I used to work in a child protection unit in the UK. I often worked with a friendly police officer named Jane, and we would often chat about our past experiences within our respective careers and home life.

spk_0 One day she told me of a very sad case of a child's death. The little girl was six years old, and had been killed by her mother and stepfather. The death was a shock to everyone, but also the neighbors of the family.

spk_0 The family were considered well to do, and they lived in a very prestigious area of the town.

spk_0 The day after the child's death, Jane was sent to the family home by her sergeant to collect something. When she arrived, the child's clothes, toys, and life possessions were strewn in the gutter outside the home.

spk_0 This shocked Jane beyond belief, and it showed what total disregard the child's mother and stepfather had for her poor life. Jane had also just had a baby girl herself, so this really hit home, and it upset her.

spk_0 Jane decided to pick up a toy teddy bear unbeknownst to anyone else, and she took it to the local mortuary to be placed with a little girl. Jane didn't want her feeling lonely, and she never told her work colleagues about this as she didn't want to get into trouble.

spk_0 Later, Jane attended a spiritualist church with her friend. Jane didn't really believe in all that, but she'd been persuaded to go anyway. When she was in a circle at the church, one woman kept staring at her, and it was making her uncomfortable.

spk_0 When the session was over, Jane went to leave hastily, but the woman caught up with her at the exit. The woman said to Jane,

spk_0 I know you don't believe in all this, but I have someone here who's desperate to give you a message. It's a little girl, and she is thanking you for the teddy bear. She is forever grateful.

spk_0 Jane was dumbfounded and left very quickly. Needless to say, Jane was then a believer. When she told me this story, we both sat there and sobbed. Firstly, at the cruelty of the incident, but then at how grateful this little girl was,

spk_0 it just goes to show that it's the little things that matter the most, even to those who do not walk this earth, anymore.

spk_0 I have other stories here and there that I'll be happy to share at some point, but I hope this story provides some proof that life does go on, and that our loved ones and those around us never truly leave us.

spk_0 Before I bring tonight's episode to an end, I'd like to thank all of our experiences for coming forward with their stories, and as always, I truly appreciate each and every one of you for listening and showing your support.

spk_0 With that said, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your evening, and I'll be back in a few short days, with more tales of the unexplained.

spk_0 Until then, stay open-minded and stay safe, because after all, the next person that comes face to face with a paranormal mystery might be you.

spk_0 The next person that comes face to face with a paranormal mystery might be you.

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