Who wants to hear a ghost story?

Question

I do! 10 points to the person who can tell me about some original ghost stories/urban legends. And please, no lame comments or stories about the hook man. I want to hear a new story. Well, maybe not so much new as not well known. Don't you just love being scared around Halloween? Cackle, cackle my little witches...

Since you have all been good little kiddies (mostly) I'll share my story.

When I was a kid I was alone at night (ever notice how all ghost stories start like that?). Anywho, I was home alone, I was probably 10-ish, somwhere around there. I walked into the kitched to get a glass of water and went back to my room. I realized I a book out there so I went to get it. When I walked out of my room I noticed that all the top drawers on our hutch were open. I thought, crap! Someone has broken in! So I grabed this letter opener I had (it looks like a little dagger, it's pretty cool). So I grabbed the letter opener and creeped around the corner of the kitchen. See, where our microwave was I could see the reflection of the living room without actually going in. So I looked in there, and I SWEAR I saw what looked like an old man with a top hat on sitting on our couch. So I took a deep breath and went in screaming...

Hold on I'm out of "characters to work with" here...

Ok, so I went in screaming, but when I got around the corner to the living room there was no one there. I know it was a stupid thing to do if there really was a guy sitting there, but what can I say? I was 10-ish and stupid as most 10-ish year olds are. I searched the house to make sure no one was there. And there wasn't.
Looking back on it now, it was probably just my imagination running overtime. We had these lamps with tall, barrel-like shades that could probably be mistaken for a top hat. But when I remember it in my mind I can see his whole body plain as day.
Freaky, huh?

Answer 1

top this one.

Answer 2

Well, I grew up in a pretty rural area so I don't know if this counts as an urban myth.

When I was about 15 I was taking the bus home from school one afternoon. It was around this time of year, with the leaves just turning, and the nip of autumn in the air.
My afternoon bus ride normally took about an hour(as I lived about 30 miles from the school), and I would often use this time for sleeping, or doing homework, or whatever.

Now, on this particular day I was sleeping, and I had set the alarm on my wrist watch so that I wouldn't miss my bus stop.
On this day, however, my alarm woke me less than half way up the hill. Our bus had been stopped by the sherriffs department because (as I learned later) two members of a local family had been involved in an armed dispute over some land, and had shot each other dead.

The surviving members of the family sold the land rather than live with what had happened there.

That took place 16 years ago.

In that time, that particular house and parcel have changed hands 14 times.

Cattle which are kept on that parcel are never as healthy as those on adjacent parcels, and they always sell for much less at auction (even at auctions out of the area).

There have been three miscarrages reported by women who got pregnant while living in that house.

The curve in front of the parcel had earned a dubious local nickname, as there are an average of 2 auto accidents per month there (up from 1 every two months before the murders), with a total of 7 vehicular fatalities over the course of 16 years.

The barn on the property (where the shootings took place) has burned down, been rebuilt, burned, been rebuilt, burned, and replaced with a steel butler building (which collapsed this past winter).

Happy halloween.

Answer 3

My friend just recently purchase 5 acres of land in rural Arkansas. She and her husband had planned to build a new home and thought that this was a god-send. The land was beautiful. Very rural. Surrounded by pasture on two side, forest on the other side. No neighbors in sight! It was exactly what they wanted and for a price that was unbelieveble! $5,000.00 for 20 acres. Well, we recently learned the catch. This was the "homeplace" of Ronald Gene Simmons. He was the man who murdered his 5 children, 9 grandchildren, wife and want-to-be girlfriend throughout Christmas and Christmas Eve in 1987. He buried them all over the land. There is a book about him called "zero at the bone". Anyway, the builders have (for the most) quit! It seems like they keep seeing unusual looking children peeking around trees at them. When the concrete was poured, little hand prints and foot prints appeared in it. Also, a nail gun unexpectedly went off and shot one guy in the arm. The project has pretty much been abandoned and they are tring to sell the land. The second catch was that it had taken the previous owner ten years to sell this place. How long will it take my friend?

Answer 4

Okay, here's a new urban legend for you.

There was a couple who lived in an area of the city that the wife felt was unsafe. She kept badgering her husband to move to a different neighborhood. He was agreeable to the idea, but wanted to pay off some debts first so they could just go on and buy a home. This plan wasn't agreeable to the wife, however, and finally the husband gave in and they bought a manufactured home and moved into a subdivision for manufactured homes.

They did this over the Memorial Day weekend.

A few months later, a mass murder occurred at a local restaurant--a gunman came in through the kitchen and started shooting. Two days after this, the wife was awakened by a knock on her door.

It was a newspaper reporter, who wanted to interview her about her neighbor across the street--who had been arrested in the shooting spree over the weekend.

You can imagine how the wife felt, having just moved from an area that she insisted was unsafe, only to move in across the street from a mass murderer.

Answer 5

Why don't you write your story, and try to get it published as a short story? I have one, I really need help with it, because it's too short, and really not done enough, for me to be able, to take my own suggestion. But it was dark, and stormy. Thunder cracked, and lightening flashed. Rain came pouring down hard. A gang entered a convience store, which was in the process of closing for the night. They demanded money, at gun point. The employee, feeling helpless began to fill a bag with the money from the register. The wind picked up, thunder cracked. One of the doors into the store, opened. But to all eyes, nobody entered. Then maybe after the time it takes a person to enter, the door closed. Suddenly there was a man, who appeared to be out of the old west, armed. He called out to the gang. One turned, gun still in hand and aimed. Suddenly, the new comer had a gun in his right hand, and fired it. The store employ was clueless but grateful. Before he realized it, the gang was dead on the floor and the stranger, was gone. But once no longer in site, there was the sound of laughter.

Answer 6

A guy went to spend a night at a bungalow. There was a rumour that it was haunted by the ghost of the Brit who had stayed there and you could hear the guy swearing aroung the house.
At night the guy heard it all right out from the balconey and could not sleep. Next morning the caretaker brought him breakfast and set it up on the balconey.
There was a parrot in a cage which belonged to the Brit. The caretaker had forgotten to warn him about its foul language.
Then there was this guy who went to a New Year's Eve Party and met this beautiful girl Sandra. They hit it off and talked and talked. He then drove her home on his bike and offered his jacket because it was cold. She got off at her house and waved to him. The next day the guy came to take her out. But her mother said that Sandra had died the previous New Year's Eve while returning home with friends. They had met with an accident. She was going to her grave to lay some flowers. He went along and found his jacket on her tombstone.

Answer 7

Here is the scariest story of all.

I was walking up a hill, no sight of anyone around. The wind russled through the rough crunky leaves and fell fastly to the ground. The branches were flying as if they were fists in a boxing match. You could hardly see anything, until the lighting flashed and illuminated the sky with a purple hue. Then I seen it.....the house. I walked upto the door skeptically, and then it opened for me. I creeped into the house, and quickly the door slammed behind. It was dark, and the only light was coming through the window from the ill lighted moon. I light a candle that was lying on the floor, and I light it with a match from the from pocket. I started walking up the creeky stairs.
"BOO!" Something popped out at me; I wasn't sure exactly what, but then I sprinted down the stairs on my way to the front door.
He then popped up blocking my exit; "I'm CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST!" (& do a little dance & make the kids laugh)

Answer 8

Check this out! I read this in a Ripley's Believe it or Not. There was a guy driving in the night while it was raining and he saw a teenage girl hitchhiking on the side of the road. He decided to help her out. She sat in the back seat and he offered her his jacket since she looked cold. The girl told him where her house was and when he finally got there he looked in the back seat and both the girl and his jacket were gone! He walked up to the house and knocked on the door. A middle-aged (maybe 55?) woman came out and he asked about the girl. She told him that several people picked up her daughter before. She got run over or something like that. It seemed that her spirit was still trying to find her way home.*sniff**sniff* He visited her grave the next day (i forgot her name) and there was his jacket, neatly folded on the gravestone.

Answer 9

This is actually a true story that happened about 3 years ago. This guy was driving South on highway 81 through New York State to Great Bend, PA. Around Syracuse, he picked up this hitchhiker that said he was on his way to Pennsylvania, so the driver took him as far as Great Bend where he had left the guy. After getting where he was going, he had noticed that the Hitchhiker left a box behind and upon opening the box inside it was a severed human toe.

P.S. He called a Toe Truck

Answer 10

have ever hear about Christmas carol? it a great history I´ll tell you a litlle.

A Christmas Carol is the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who didn´t like Christmas. He was always unking to people, and he stayed away from them.
One Christmas eve the partner of Scrooge´s dead Jacob Marley came to his rooms. Marley wore a long chain round his body and he couldn´t rest because during his life he only made money. He told Scrooge that three spirits would visit him.
The first spirit was the ghost of Chritmas past. It showed Scrooge himself when he was a lonely, unhappy schoolboy. Then he saw himself in the office whre he first started work. His manager, Mr. Fezziwig, was kind and generous, and he gave a big Christmas party. Next, Scrooge saw his fiancée Belle, who said that he loved money more tahn her. Finally, the spirit showed him Belle some years later when she was the happy mother of a big family. Scrooge felt very sad because he didn´t have a family.
The second spirit was the ghost of Christmas present. It took him to his clerk Bob Cratchit´s house. Bob was poor so his family had only a small Christmas dinner, but they all drank to Scrooge´s.
when the ghost told Scrooge that tiny tim would probably die he was very unhappy. Then he saw his nephew Fred´s family. They were all enjoyimg themselves, and Scrooge began to enjoy himself too! After this, the ghost showed him two thin, hungry childreen who were trembling with cold. Scrooge was shoched. And he also felt very bad when the ghost repeated his own words about workhouses and prisons

Answer 11

My friend Linna was walking to lunch one day at school, we was on the second floor of our school. We have a giant window that lets you see across the courtyard, there was a huge window on the other side of the school courtyard too. My friend saw a person standing on the other side of the courtyard, who looked like her, but the girl that my friend saw was wearing the exact same clothes as my friend. But you can not see your reflection from the other side, its too far.
But that is not the worst part. Linna had told me about and I had believed her. That same evening, I was in my history class, we were writing an essay. It was timed and so everybody was so concentrated on the essay that not even one person took off their eyes off their papers. I was just writting, and all of a sudden I hear a small whisper it said "Hey", I looked up right away, but no one looked up they were writing their papers. I ignored it, but then it said it again "hey!" only louder. I looked up again, and then I looked around, once again no one was looking up, I thought it was one of my friends trying to ask for help. "hey hey hey hey hey. . ." It kept repeating itself! I was going crazy, I looked up, I thought that atleast some of my friends would have heard the whispers. I was thinking to myself that this is crazy, so I said in my mind " Okay if you are some kind of ghost prove it by saying Hey again." I sat there and waited, nothing happend, but then i sensed it say it infront of my face "HEY!!" really loud! I actually jumped back in my seat. It stopped soon, after it stopped, when class was over I asked my friends if they heard it, they said no.
I am not lieing, This is a true story.