Can someone please help me with a made up ghost story?

Question

We are going to a halloween party on oct. 27, and we walk around the city for 3-4 blocks..We stop at a house that is for sale and empty and take turns makeing up a scarry story about a house, its people and why it is for sale.....I'm not good at this...Help !!

Answer 1

Well here we go lets see. Once upon a time there was an elderly man who lived in this house. His name was ____?____ Every night for five nights he would come out and dig holes in the backyard. Than one night he dissapeared into thin air. To this day no one knows what happened to old____?____. Some say that he buried his family alive in the back yard, while others say he lost his temper and killed his family for no reason. Who knows what happened. If you Listen Carefully. You can hear the sound of someone or something digging Its way out of the ground. Look real carefull and you just might see the ghost of old Mr.___?____. When I was Little my Dad told me a ghost story about Lucy it really freaked me out. Now that iam older it dose not bother me. He has told the story to the grand kids they really freaked out. I'll tell you just in case you want to use it. Once there lived a man his name was Fred. Fred lived in a old creepy house all alone. One night while watching t.v. Fred heard this freaky noise. It scared him, he thought his mind was playing tricks on him, so he put on his p.j.'s and went up to bed. Shortly after he crawled into bed. He heard the noise again; only this time he heard it loud and clear. I am Lucy I am in the basement, Iam coming to get you. Fred covered his head with the blankets. Again he heard I am Lucy I am on the first step. I am coming to get you. Iam Lucy I am on the third step. I am coming to get you. I am Lucy I am on the top step. I am coming to get you. By this time fred was so scared he wet to bed. With out moving off the bed fred covered his head with his pillow. I am Lucy, I am coming down the hallway. I am coming to get you. Iam Lucy I am at your doorway, I am coming to get you. I am Lucy, Iam at the end of the bed. By this time fred was so scared he dare not look out from under the covers. I am Lucy, Iam at the head of the bed. Boo! The object of the story is to get them ingrossed so ingrossed that they are not paying attention to their surroundings.You have some one come up from the behind and yell boo! It gets them every time. They will jump once my dad told the story while we were camping and one of my older cousins who was 16 at the time actually wet his pants. Just remember that in any scary story you have to use the scariest ghost voice you have got other wise you just might as well forget it. Oh one more thing don't forget to make the sound effects of someone going up the stairs and walking down the hallway and into the room. It makes it so much more interesting.

Answer 2

Start with introducing the characters. Say a family lived there, give their names and how old they were, what jobs the parents had, if the kids played sports, etc... pull the audience in and make them care about the characters because they "know" them.

Add conflict. Say the husband was extremely jealous or an alcoholic, etc. Maybe the mother was schizophrenic, and she killed the children because she thought they were evil or something, and the father came home and saw what his wife had done and killed her. Out of guilt, he then committed suicide.

Talk about current problems. Say that the real estate company had to put in new carpet and repaint the room where the murders were because of all the blood. Maybe say that even though the heat system is brand new and so are the windows, but the room is always cold, etc.

Answer 3

you wanna know the truth why this house is empty? you cant handle the truth! but if you insisit.... once there was an old man and he lived all by himself in that very house. At exactly 12:01 one night/day he was awoken by a slight breeze the breeze was unusually cool byut he thought nothing of it and went back to bed. for the next twenty three days. well after 23 days he was starting to realize it was not a coincedence. ya, 23 days hes old okay! so he was kinda confused on whta he should do. since he was old he decided to move into a care place. as he was about to leave the doors locked and all the windows slammed shuit. now no one knows what happened but if everyones quiet and still youll feel the brreeze of the old mans faint breath trying to yell for help to escape the house still after all these years....

Answer 4

well here are a couple of true stoies that happend a long time ago there once was a lady and her daughter and son renting this old house that is still standing to this day and it is a spookey old house its in a place where alot of wild stuff happend in the 18hundreds and before one evening while the daughter was upstairs the mother was knitting in the living room when out of the corner of her eye she caught a glymps of a floating old cofin in shock she whatced it float thruogh the living room and out the front door, a sometime later on the young girl was up stairs in her room when she heard music and whooping and hollaring out side her window when she looked out she seen lights and shadows in the shed outback where there should be knowone when she woke up the next morning she went down to the shed only to find that the shed door was locked and there was know sighns of any body ever being there in years, a simular storie happend when they moved from there down the rode two another house where she would wake up and here wagons and horses and the drivers hollaring as they went along and there had not been a wagon trail there in years the next morning she goes around back to find know wagon tracks or hoove prints any where .i hope this helps you out.

Answer 5

Keep the story simple and to the point. Sometimes more details can be less effective. Here goes...

Did you hear what happened in that house? My grandmother (or whoever) told me that about x # of years ago, a little friend of hers lived there. They used to play on the tire swing in the backyard (adds a touch of authenticity if you have a personal anecdote about the relationship between your grandmother and the little girl). One summer my gma went to the little girl's house to play and the little girl wasn't there. As she was about to leave, she thought she saw a child in the attic window. So she knocked on the back door. No one answered. She opened the door and walked inside (no one locked their doors in those days, you know). She heard a child singing and followed the noise to the attic. When she walked in, she saw a little boy sitting on the floor playing with a truck. She started to play with the boy and about 10 minutes later, was called home by her mother (your great gma).

The next day, she asked the little girl who the boy was. She replied, "What boy?"

Your gma told her about the boy she had played with. The little girl told her that no little boy lived there anymore.

Your gma asked, "What do you mean, anymore?"

The girl replied, "Well, my brother used to live here but he died last year. We went to go see his grave yesterday". (He had died one year ago to the day that your gma had played with him).

Your gma then asked what he had looked like. The little girl led her into the living room and showed her the picture of the brother. It was the same child.

And sometimes, when you look up at the house at night, you can see the boy watching you from the window.

Just an idea. Hope it helps. Good luck.

Answer 6

The absolute BEST way to scare the pant off them is to actually do a little reserch on the property. Find out if anyone who ever owned it has died and how (usually in local papers, mabey on microphish at the library), then use the info in your story. Develop the story around the facts, then tell them "If you don't believe me look it up." When they do - and someone will - it'll unnerve them enough that you may even get an urban legend started!

Answer 7

Borrow an idea from Stephen King.

Answer 8

Start with a news broadcast that begins

"George W. Bush has won a landslide third term. . ."

Answer 9

here's a story you can use:

Once upon a time there was a house in the middle of nowhere.... yatayatayata

Answer 10

whatever you decide to write, don't start it with "once upon a time......."