Sheinelle Jones just told a terrifying cautionary tale on TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle, so make sure you take heed.
The TV host recalled a time when she was on an Amtrak train from Philadelphia to New York City and fell asleep for so long that she woke up in a dark station, stuck on the train and all alone.
Sheinelle Jones told a nightmarish story of being stuck on a NYC train alone in the dark. By: TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle/YouTube
“I got a little sleepy because I had had a long day, and so I fell asleep,” Jones explained to her co-host Jenna Bush Hager. “And then you know, you stop moving, but you feel like, ‘Oh it’s probably because it’s not time and we’re not in Moynihan, we’re not in New York City.’ Well, I was supposed to get in around, I don’t know, like 10 or something. I woke up, and there was no one on the train.”
Speaking for all of us, Bush Hager chimed in, “That is a nightmare!”
At this point, Jones realized that it was 12:20 am.
“So you’d been asleep for two hours underground?” a shocked JBH asked.
“For two hours, in the depths of New York City,” Jones confirmed.
Co-host Jenna Bush Hager was shocked by Jones’ story. By: TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle/YouTube
The two women shared their shock that no one had thought to wake up a sleeping woman on a train that had arrived at its last stop, agreeing that it seemed like basic courtesy.
Jones then tried to find a solution to get herself off the train and back home.
“The train is long, Amtrak, so I went all the way down, I’m like surely I’ll find like a conductor or something,” she said. “So then I’m like, no problem, I’ll just push the exit thing. So I go over to the door, and I’m like, there’s a red button. And I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s not opening.’ And then I try to pry the door open, and then it hits me after a few minutes like, ‘Oh, I’m stuck. On the train. I’m stuck.’”
In the end, Jones decided there was nothing to do but to call 911, which Bush Hager agreed was the right move. “I said, ‘I’m really embarrassed about this, but I’m stuck on the train in Moynihan in New York City, and there’s no one on the train, and it’s really dark. Can you come get me?’” Jones recalled of her conversation with emergency services.
Sheinelle Jones took a selfie with the cops who rescued her. By: TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle/YouTube
She was asked to provide more details, but she could barely share any because the train was plunged into darkness.
“So she says, ‘Stay right there,’ which, where else am I going?” Jones continued. “And then I felt like a toddler. I was like, ‘Will you stay on the phone with me?’”
When Bush Hager exclaimed, “Aww!” Jones quickly told her with a laugh, “Oh, shut up!”
Thankfully, police arrived in just 11 minutes to rescue the TV star, and one of the cops even asked her to take a selfie with them because his wife is a big fan. Jones joked that she had made two new friends that day.