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True Scary Story

The Scream on the Radio: An Event That Haunted Me for Life

True Scary Story

Scary Stories

Society & Culture, Arts, Personal Journals

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

When a curious teenager dares to visit a haunted asylum in Illinois, she has no idea she’s opening a door that will never fully close. Over the years, unexplained events follow her across states, homes, and generations from a possessed family campsite to a haunted workplace in D.C. In this chilling true account, one woman wonders: what if something from that first night decided to stay with her?
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0:00.0

It started with a scream from a radio outside in a bandit asylum,

0:05.0

but that night didn't end when they drove away.

0:08.0

For years, something unseen followed her through homes and generations.

0:13.0

My name is Edwin, and here is Wendy's true, scary story.

0:30.1

I would say my first experience with the paranormal really started in high school.

0:36.6

I grew up in a really small town in central Illinois. They have this very famous, I guess, for the area,

0:41.7

abandoned insane asylum. And people know in that area know that it's a haunted place. That's

0:48.4

kind of the place to go if you want to see something kind of creepy and haunted.

0:57.0

So one night, my friend and I, we were driving around trying to decide what we wanted to do, and we decided,

1:03.0

and let's go check it out. We've never done it.

1:06.0

We were driving up, got close to the building, and it looked exactly like what you would expect

1:12.9

in a haunted, abandoned hospital to look like.

1:16.9

Run down, barely any windows, it had a fencing all around it, and it just definitely looked

1:23.0

scary.

1:24.0

So my friend had turned his radio completely off in his car and he had said out loud,

1:31.1

wow, that is so creepy.

1:33.9

The second that he said that, my friend's radio clicked back on, full blast,

1:41.8

you could hear a woman screaming through the window. Also at the exact same time, I got this

1:49.1

intense cramping in my foot. I truly felt like my foot was breaking. I pulled my shoe off,

1:58.6

looked down at my foot, and my toes and foot were completely twisted as far as they would go.

2:04.6

It was like the worst muscle cramp you could ever get.

2:07.6

I started screaming because it hurts so bad.

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