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celticeagle @celticeagle (159008) • Boise, Idaho 8 Oct

Washington Irving's 1820 short story of a headless horseman terrorizing a real village of Sleepy Hollow is one of America's first ghost stories. Since the Middle Ages stories of headless horsemen have been around. Brothers Grimm...

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Read Any Good Books Lately?

celticeagle @celticeagle (159008) • Boise, Idaho 7 Sep

Well, I finished the book about Elvira. It was a 3 hanky one. I cried three times. Once when she was homeless for a time in Europe, once when she found out too many of her friends had died of HIV, and once at the last of the book...

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Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned

celticeagle @celticeagle (159008) • Boise, Idaho 3 Jan 23

Didn't we all have urban legends and ghost stories going around when we were young? For me, it was Hatchet Man and an old military cemetery we liked to visit. Well, here is a ghost story that joins these ranks: In a small resort...

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Ghost Stories and Roller Coaster Rides

DW Davis @DWDavis (25812) • Pikeville, North Carolina 24 Jun 22

Son1 is home on leave this week and didn't want to just sit around the house, so we planned a camping trip to Williamsburg, Virginia. The first night after arriving, which was Tuesday, Son1, K, and I went for a guided Ghost Walk...

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Ghost- Reality or an Illusion??

Princess Liza @Princessliza (247) 24 Apr 21

Hey Everyone I know it's a different and eccentric topic to discuss here. But I am really curious to know whether it is true that Ghosts really exists??. Why I had this question in mind because today I watched a scary movie...

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There are websites we should never check.

Archie0 @Archie0 (5636) 22 Jan 20

Have you ever tried to go to those websites which are abandoned? Or the ones that has warnings for you to not visit them? I had recently found few websites which had warnings before visiting them. But I still dared to check them...

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My Thoughts On Alleged "Hauntings"

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (2559) • United States 24 Aug 19

I do not believe in hauntings, but I have heard a whole bundle of ghost stories for as long as I can remember. Some people have wild imaginations, and some people (like my paternal grandfather was) are prone to actual delusion. I...

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Have you ever seen a cryptid?

toothbrushglue @toothbrushglue (106) 19 Aug 18

I love stories about bigfoot and the loch ness monster but I haven't seen any interested stories as of yet and haven't experienced any of my own. Do you have some cryptid stories?

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Review: Ghost Story: "Ghost Stories of Chapelizod" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 24 Feb 17

Chapelizod is a village within Dublin. At the time Le Fanu was writing, it was still on the outskirts. Le Fanu set his book The House by the Churchyard there. James Joyce also used the village for his short story “A Painful...

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Book Review: "The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology" ed. Andrew Barger

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 18 Sep 16

This is a collection of nine ghost stories, some of which are familiar—classic, even—and some of which are obscure. Authors include Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, F. Sheridan Le Fanu and Walter Scott among other such as the...

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A Ghost In The Workplace?

Cynthia Owens @cindiowens (5120) • North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 24 Jul 16

As many of you know, I am a nurse, and my workplace happens to be a hospital. Many people die in the hospital unfortunately, and there are no windows to open, as is customary, for the spirit, or soul, to escape. A dead one may lay...

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Who's up for a spooky story?

WinterRea @AutumnSnow (4584) 2 Jul 16

So I had this dream last nite and when I woke up from this dream and began writing so Im playing around with some idea's of adding some short stories, ghost stories and such to my Witche's Brew blog. I'll share a little bit of an...

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Weekend Ghost Story

Steve Helmer @srhelmer (7029) • Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 2 Jul 16

The building I work in used to be a small factory that was turned into a commercial office building back in the 1980s. Right now, it's mostly empty. There's just my office (with three people sharing it) and an audiologist who...

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Ghost Stories about my town.

celticeagle @celticeagle (159008) • Boise, Idaho 23 Oct 15

The Travel channel has a show on it called Ghost Stories. Today they had a repeat of one about Boise, Idaho the city where I live. It was cool to see the places where they say there are ghosts. The Egyptian Theater seems to be the...

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Living In A Haunted House

allen0187 @allen0187 (58444) • Philippines 30 Aug 15

Was inspired to write about my haunted house experiences after reading @Porcospino 's post. You can read here post by clicking the link below. Anyway, this particular house that we lived in was an old house. It was all wood and...

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Love Halloween/Love Horror Films?

mode09 @mode09 (158) • United States 14 Oct 13

Love Halloween? Love Horror Films? There is a new magazine called Chiller31 that combines the best of both worlds! Things that go bump in the night are not just for Halloween anymore! The new magazine Chiller 31 contains stories...

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Slender Man, CreepyPasta's, and such things...

NoOne72 @NoOne72 (13) • United States 4 Jul 12

I just recently heard of this and I'm curious about any new or old urban legends that I've never heard of. Anyone care to donate any that they've heard of?

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Only one sees the Ghost

savypat @savypat (20216) • United States 5 Oct 11

Have you noticed that in almost all ghost stories only one person sees the ghost? There may be others around when it happens, but at the most they get an strange feeling. Now for things that go bump in the night or lights that...

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Do you believe in ghosts?

yhab0710 @yhab0710 (46) • Philippines 13 Apr 11

Ghosts are all in the mind according to the study by UK psychologists. They are the mind's reaction to surroundings. Have you ever encountered a ghost?

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Best Stories For Hallowe'en

hvedra @hvedra (1619) 27 Oct 10

With Hallowe'en coming up this weekend, which are your favourite spooky or scary stories? Do you like classic horror like Dracula or The Tell Tale Heart or do you like more modern fayre like Stephen King? Do you like creepy...

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