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You're right that I never went to bed from that time on before emptying the can.

I wonder if your wife may have had ulterior motives :O)

I think in the ghost stories are good for business, and I'm willing to bet that more than story has been started by the local COC to boost tourism...

Just fooling with you on the garbage can...

There is a story in my family about a ghost in our basement...I was about 3 at the time so I don't remember much but the short version is...We lived in a house built sometime in the 1940's with an unfinished basement, this was about 66' or 67. My sisters had one of those 'sprung' horses you mount and ride and if you got bouncing enough, it would leave the floor and travel around the room, I'm sure that was not a design feature. This made a heck of a racket on the concrete...

While doing this one day...all the sudden from behind the old oil fired furnace came this haunting voice..."Don't ride the hoooorse...". I guess there were some screams and some crying involved...To this day, my mom still will not admit that she was hiding back there...

I wonder if your wife may have had ulterior motives :O)

Logical question. But, she had not asked me to empty it earlier. And, she had no time to get from the bedroom to the kitchen and back to the bathroom before she let out a scream. Besides, she was really shook by it. She thought someone had come into the cabin. I regret my ghost explanation didn't do much to sooth her fears.

The bummer for me is that she eventually went back to sleep. I laid awake and had to work the next day too.

I think in the ghost stories are good for business, and I'm willing to bet that more than story has been started by the local COC to boost tourism...

You may have that right. But, I'd never intentionally stay the night in a haunted house. That was one exception though because I figured the ghost was benign and was simply trying to help control the mouse problem in the cabin. So, we stayed there the rest of the week. I emptied the garbage can every night before bed, and nothing else happened.

After all these years, I finally searched the web about about my experience. I found nothing specific about that cabin. But, that stretch of Huron shore is supposedly crawling with ghosts from shipwrecks.

I just may get up the nerve to call the owner of that cabin and ask point blank if there have been reports of other things that have happened there.