bedtime stories: appalachian haunted mansion
Rattled & Shook
Tenderfoot TV & Audacy
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The first episode of our Bedtime Stories Tuesday series!
Settle in as host Meredith tells you a creepy true story about a haunted mansion-turned-school.
Thank you to Juliana E. for the story!
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Host: Meredith Stedman @meredithstedman
Original artwork by Puppyteeth
Original Music & Ending Theme by Makeup and Vanity Set
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Tenderfoot TV podcast. |
| 0:07.8 | Have you ever fantasized about going to school in an old haunted building filled with bats and ghosts and questionable tunnels? |
| 0:17.7 | I have a story for you. I have a story for you. I'm haunted by the mansion I grew up across the street from. |
| 0:44.5 | I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the Appalachian Mountains, and across the street from my house was my preschool through eighth grade school. |
| 0:52.3 | It was originally built by this man named John C.C. Mayo. |
| 0:56.3 | My mom was the principal of the school, so we had access to the building whenever. |
| 1:01.7 | It was essentially an extension of my house. |
| 1:03.7 | It was a 30,000 square foot mansion with 40 plus rooms. |
| 1:08.3 | In the basement, there was a tunnel that connected to the church that was across the street. |
| 1:12.6 | My family always knew the building was haunted. I heard a lot of stories of paranormal events, but |
| 1:17.7 | none of them ever claimed that there was a bad spirit there. They just let us know that they were there. |
| 1:25.2 | One summer break, bats kept flying through the attic of the mansion. |
| 1:29.3 | My mom had me go up with her to nail shut the window that wasn't closing. And after she nailed |
| 1:35.3 | the window closed, she hit the head of the nail to the side so that it was bent. Then we spent the |
| 1:40.2 | rest of the evening finding the bats and getting them out of the building. The next morning, when I went to go help my mom in her classroom, we entered through the side |
| 1:48.6 | entrance of the school and there were at least 15 bats hanging on the steps that we had walk up. |
| 1:54.5 | So I got my gloves and started getting the bats and afterwards I went up to the attic with my |
| 1:59.0 | mom to find out what window we'd missed. |
| 2:07.2 | All of the windows were closed, except the window that we had nailed shut the day before, |
| 2:13.0 | which was open again. And laying on the window sill was the same nail my mom had nailed in the day before, except now it was perfectly straight. Another weird time was when I was in sixth grade. |
| 2:19.3 | I left my classroom and went to the third floor of the building to go to a bathroom that was never used on that day |
| 2:24.3 | because there weren't any active classes on the floor then. |
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