Something Wicked This Way Comes… This is Paranormal Night Shift, the podcast that brings you the best fan-submitted paranormal stories from the graveyard shift. In this episode, we hear from Heather W., who tells us the chilling story of the wheelchair.
Heather grew up in Western North Carolina, and her grandmother ran a boarding house for workers, drifters, and travelers. One couple had been living at the boarding house for years, and the old man was confined to a wheelchair. One night, a horrible thunderstorm struck the boarding house, and it quickly went up in flames. The old woman was trapped upstairs, and the old man tried to save her, but it was too late. They were found wrapped in each other’s arms on what remained of the second floor.
The only thing that survived the fire was the old man’s wheelchair. Heather’s grandmother and mother put the wheelchair in the attic, and many years later, during another thunderstorm, Heather heard the wheelchair rolling around. The next morning, she went up to the attic to check, and the wheelchair was right next to the steps.
Is the wheelchair haunted? What is the story behind it? Listen to this episode of Paranormal Night Shift to find out!
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Something wicked this way comes.
This is paranormal night shift.
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What’s up, time travelers?
These are your fan submitted
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stories.
Since we are the people who are
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up at the same time that the
critters that go bump in the
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night are, we’ll get right to
it.
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This one’s called the
wheelchair, Heather W writes.
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I grew up in Western North
Carolina, actually, on a road
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that shares your last name, Sir.
My grandmother ran, for lack of
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a better word, a boarding house.
Except for it wasn’t one house.
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It was a series of houses and
trailers that were all kind of
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together in a circle.
She’d rent them out today.
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Workers and Drifters and
travelers.
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Nobody would stay that long
except for this one couple.
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They had been there for years.
The old man was in a wheelchair.
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I never really understood why.
All I know is that he was in the
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war and now he was in a
wheelchair and the lady was nice
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and the two of them seemed to be
so deeply of it was a twostory
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house.
And being that he was confined
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to a wheelchair, my grandmother
always told him that they should
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move to one of the other houses
when it came available.
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But the old woman said no, this
is our home.
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From what we can understand, the
old woman got hurt, must have
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fallen and broken her leg
because that’s what the autopsy
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report showed.
There was a horrible
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thunderstorm.
She was upstairs and lightning
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had struck the house and it
quickly went to a blaze.
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Within a matter of 15 minutes
the house was fully engulfed in
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flames.
There was nothing anyone could
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do and being so rural, there was
no real fire department easily
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available.
By the time the fire department
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did arrive, the house was gone,
burnt to the ground.
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The only thing that stayed was
the wheelchair.
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It was at the bottom of the
stairs, seat belt undone.
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I couldn’t imagine the agony he
went through listening to her
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scream as he climbed little by
little up the steps.
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It must have taken every ounce
of strength he had to try to get
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to her, and that’s how they were
found by the fire marshal,
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wrapped in each other’s arms on
what remained of the 2nd floor.
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For some reason, my grandmother
and I never could bring it to
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ourselves to throw the
wheelchair away, so we put it in
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our attic The other night.
There was a horrible
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thunderstorm and I swear I could
hear it rolling around the next
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morning when I went up into the
attic to check.
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Sure enough, that wheelchair was
right next to the steps.
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That is a great paranormal night
shift story.
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It’s a beautiful story.
Honestly, you asked for the HR
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violation sticker, so we’re
sending it to you.
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Please, if you have other
paranormal night shift stories,
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please send them here.
We’d love to use them.