The Shadow Child in the Mine | Real Ghost Stories CLASSIC
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4.2 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A tour of the Lackawanna Coal Mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania is supposed to be history—hard hats, rail tracks, and stories from an ex-miner guide as your group descends roughly 300 feet underground into tunnels carved generations ago.
But for one listener, the mine felt different the moment they approached the airlock section—an area once tended by young boys whose job was to open and close heavy doors to protect ventilation flow.
Without warning, she felt an intense pressure and heaviness—so strong she thought something had gone wrong with the air underground. Then the guide cut the lights to demonstrate the mine’s total darkness.
When the lights returned, she saw it: a child-shaped figure—blacker than black—ducking behind a support beam like it was hiding.
She didn’t feel fear… just awe. And an unsettling realization that she may have seen it before.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on a chilling episode of Real Ghost Stories Online that will make your parents think you worship |
| 0:09.0 | the devil himself. And let's just admit it, you really are worshipping the devil. Trust me, I know everything, |
| 0:14.7 | and I am going to tell on you. When a couple embarks on a weekend getaway filled with adventures, |
| 0:19.4 | the last thing they expect is to have |
| 0:20.9 | a paranormal encounter with the dead. How do the couple manage to stay grounded and make it |
| 0:25.2 | through a terrifying ordeal? Deep in an abandoned coal mine. We'll find out today on Real Ghost |
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