Woman in the attic

“So, in 1993, I was a member of a large-casted production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and it was in Syracuse, and the performance space was an old synagogue that had been turned into a theater. So, it was like four stories high, and there... there's, like, different wings, and the theater space where the main, like, church would've been, was huge... like, a 400- person theater.

And we spent a lot of time there. My mom worked there, and in the attic, the far attic was like four stories up. You could go up to this, like, dance studio, but in order to get there, you had to go up these creepy old stairs that were, like, 20 feet wide. And you'd go up and when you got to the top, the attic was like 30, 40 feet high.

It was a really tall space, and that's where they kept all their old set pieces. So, when you got up, alls you could see was old castle walls, and you'd see, like... things like that. So, I'd just go exploring. They had this massive room of props you could climb in ladders and play with and things like that.

So, I spent a lot of time there. And in order to get to this space from where my mom worked in the box office, you had to go up these stairs, and, like, a quarter mile down these hallways and stuff where nobody else was. And you'd go all the way up. So, I went up there by myself all the time regularly, and it was always kind of a spooky place.

But, I went up there once, and when I got up there, I walked towards this dance studio, which is at the end of this long, tall, crazy hallway... old smelly, dusty hallway. And I heard something, and I looked back, and there was a woman... like, um, I would say like a woman... not, like, really like a witch, but like a woman that was... had no legs, was wispy at the bottom... like, you would think, like a silly ghost would be. And it screamed and flew straight at me, and I was by myself. Like I said, I was terrified. I was about his age, about nine years old. I cried, and I screamed, and I ran all the way down, all the way to my mom in the front of the place, and told them the story, and that was it.”