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Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival story Night 1 - Legend of the Charlie Company

ultraman cosmos @id_peace (17036) • Singapore 11 Aug 18

As per promised, I will bring some ghost stories as that today is the first day of Hungry Ghost Festival. Over the month I will share about famous ghost stories in Singapore and stories that I had experienced or by friends....

hungry ghost festival

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Camping late night activities

ultraman cosmos @id_peace (17036) • Singapore 28 May 18

I wonder if it is happen all around the world? Whenever we are camping at night and there are nothing to do, we will actually gather around and do nothing but start to share ghost story. Do you like to share ghost story whenever...

camp

late night activities

gather

ghost story

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It Was A Dark and Stormy Night

PaintsOnSlate @PainsOnSlate (21845) • Canada 14 Jan 18

My friend Joan lived in a haunted house. It was haunted in a nice way. The ghost liked her and kept her safe and happy along with her four children in the small town of Pratt, Kansas. The ghost hid things that Joan and the...

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Review: Ghost Story: “Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling” by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 29 Apr 17

The narrator begins by saying that an odd thing happened to his uncle, Mr. Watson of Haddlestone, but in order to explain that, he has to tell the story of Captain James Walshawe, who was called captain out of courtesy, for he...

review

ghost story

horror

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The Story In The Song - Stan Ridgeway - Camouflage

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Feb 17

1986 A war story combined with a ghost story made up this clever little number that conveys heroism, death with a great sense of atmosphere. Set in Vietnam in 1965, where the narrator describes being pinned down in the jungle...

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Review: Ghost Story "The Music from Infinity" by Thorp McClusky"

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 3 Feb 17

It’s twenty-five past eleven. John Chambers has invited his friend Jerry over for drinks and to tell him a story about the man whose execution they’re awaiting. Harry Pierce moved into the same boarding house as Chambers the year...

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Ghost Story Review: "The Old English Baron" by Clara Reeve

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 20 Oct 16

Sir Phillip Harclay returns to England after a long absence to find his dearest friend, Arthur Lovel, is deceased. His castle and lands have be sold by his heir to the heir’s brother-in-law, Baron Fitz-Owen. Sir Phillip, after...

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Ghost Story Review: "The Secret Chamber" by Margaret Oliphant

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 5 Oct 16

For as long as anyone can remember, there’s been talk of a secret room in the Gowrie Castle, and, given its irregular shape, its large size and sprawling layout, such a room would be easy to conceal. No one but the earl, his heir...

review

ghost story

family secrets

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Ghost Story Review: "Hurst of Hurstcote" by E. Nesbit

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 4 Oct 16

John Hurst was unpopular at Eton and later at Christ Church. It was more than his habit of preferring grubbing around in books to playing cricket. And there was that strange paper on black magic… Nevertheless, the narrator,...

review

ghost story

friendship

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Ghost Story Review: “Mr. Gray’s Strange Story” by Louisa Murray

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 3 Oct 16

Many years after the events have occurred, the Rev. Gilbert Gray relates this sad story. He says he’s not a believer in the supernatural, yet has no rational explanation for the experience. And now, since he’s the only living...

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Book Review: "The Vanishing Hitchhiker" by Jan Harold Brunvand

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 2 Oct 16

The vanishing hitchhiker of the title refers to a ghost story that has been around at least since the 19th century but I heard as a kid as a “true story” that happened to “a friend of Bob’s from college.” The friend of Bob’s from...

review

urban legend

ghost story

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Ghost Story Review: "The Return" by R Murray Gilchrist

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 22 Sep 16

After twenty years being away seeking his fortune in the diamond fields, Brian is returning home to Halkton village and Rose Pascal. With him the great diamond the Star of Europe. It will be Rose’s. Things have changed. The inn...

review

ghost story

separated lovers

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Ghost story review: "The Dead Smile" by F. Marion Crawford

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 19 Sep 16

Sir Hugh Ockram is a miserable old cuss by anyone’s definition. He’s nearing the end of his wretched life and he smiles, drawing his parchment-like skin back to reveal his predatory teeth. Nurse Macdonald said once when Sir Hugh...

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Stalking A Spider Made Me Have Goosebumps

Thelma @thelme55 (79323) • Germany 6 Sep 16

More than a month ago, I was alone in my house as my father was still confined in the hospital. I just came from Germany and so I had a hard time sleeping. I was walking in the living room when I saw a huge spider. No, I was...

paranormal

spider

ghost story

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Ghost Story Review: "Legal Rites" by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 2 Sep 16

Russell Harley’s uncle Zeb has been gathered unto his fathers. Russell’s heard rumors of money buried around old Zeb’s place and now that he’s inherited it, he makes the trip out to desert to see. The stars are already out when...

review

ghost story

farce

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Ghost Story Review: "The Ghost of Dr. Harris" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 1 Sep 16

The narrator, an American, is recalling a story he told verbally to gathering of English under candlelight. He admits it loses something once it’s committed to paper. Having only forgiven Hawthorne for The Scarlet Letter...

review

ghost story

19th century

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Ghost Story Review: "In at the Death" by Donald Westlake

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 29 Aug 16

Edward Thornburn, 1938-1977, has hanged himself in a fit of what he calls truculence—stronger than pique, but not so dignified as despair. He admits he regretted it before the thing was “well begun,” but there was no calling the...

review

fictional suicide

ghost story

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Ghost Story Review: "The Woman at Seven Brothers" by Wilbur Daniel Steel

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 11 Aug 16

Ray Johnson is an assistant lighthouse keeper at a place called Seven Brothers in coastal New England. His boss, old Fedderson, is in his fifties. Mrs. Fedderson is closer to Ray in age. Not that he has eyes for her. To him, she...

review

ghost story

light house

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Ghost Story Review: "Harry" by Rosemary Timperley

Siduri @msiduri (5687) • United States 25 Jul 16

One hot summer day. Mrs. James looked into her backyard (or as they insist on calling in her neck of the woods, her garden) and watched her five-year-old daughter playing in the grass, making daisy chains. Just the sort thing to...

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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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