Annual Haunted Thread

[CurlyBill]

Here is the annual haunted thread. Post your true ghost stories here... This has been somewhat popular ovedr the last three years given the feedback I've received. We just need to keep bumping the thread and keep it active.

[Quilla]

This'll scare ya!

[Tribune7]

Suddenly, an announcer's voice came on the air and simply said, "In January, you'll go blind."

Dude. It was CBS. You have nothing to worry about.

[retrokitten]

Was the little cemetery St. James-Sag? It's where the ground is said to breathe and phantom monks chase people off the grounds. I believe the cemetery is on a fairly steep hill.

Archer Woods Cemetery is near there, too. I don't know why that part of Archer Avenue is so creepy, but there are tons of stories associated with the area.

I've taken the Richard Crowe ghost tour a couple of times and that is fun, too. It leaves from the Goose Island Brewery and I believe the first place you go is the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It goes through Chinatown, over train tracks where Lincoln's funeral train is supposedly seen and ends up at Resurrection Cemetery. It's a great way to see the city.

[Betis70]

Here is one near my hometown in CT: Devil's Hopyard. Place is definitely spooky but other than getting freaked out as a kid, I never had any experiences there.

http://www.curbstone.org/index.cfm?webpage=72

[Anne of DC]

nope!

[trillabodilla]

My mom recently told me this story.

Her grand-daddy, as she called him, was older and not well.

My mom and dad were teenagers and attending a football game. Mama said all of a sudden the strangest feeling came over her, and she said it out loud to Daddy, "Grand-Daddy just died."

Sure enough, when they went home, she found out that he had passed on about that time.

My mom would NOT make that up, and I believe her.

[Anne of DC]

Here's a ghost story for you,

My maternal Grandmother and my aunt who was taking care of her both died within 8 months of one another in 1981.

about a year later I went up the Saskatchewan were they lived along with two of my uncles who still lived there.

Grandma suffered from altzheimers and had her own room on the ground floor off the livingroom while my aunt slept in a cot just outside the bedroom door in case grandma needed her.

that year I stayed in grandma's old bedroom. The first night I slept in that room, I could feel her presance, it was like she and my aunt were telling me that they were all right and not to worry about them.

I wasn't really scared, instead I slept all night.

[Blackirish]

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=19700

[Betis70]

Interesting. When my grandma died in 1995 (the last of my grandparents) I was working in New Mexico on an old ranch. I was getting ready for dinner and in the bathroom cleaning up, I rinsed off my face and looked up into the mirror. I saw my grandma looking back at me, behind me.

I got a phone call 5 minutes later that she had just died. I knew she had been sick, so maybe it was my mind playing tricks on me.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

[retrokitten]

That's really interesting. CT sure has a lot of "devil" named places for such a small state. LOL

[Tribune7]

LOL

[Betis70]

And I moving back there in a week--decided to wait till after Halloween. :)

There are a lot of creepy places there, so it doesn't surprise me.

[varina davis]

Halloween is very special holiday in the village of Cassadega, Fla. For nearly 100 years it has been a settlement for spiritulists, seers and others dedicated to the netherworld. A truly interesting place. I've been there a few times. A charming little town near east central Florida coast. There is a hotel, spiritulist church, stores to buy related memorabilia and fortune tellers everwhere. Residents of Cassadega are very serious about their faith. There is no carnival atmosphere.

[retrokitten]

I saw you mention that on one of the hockey thread and was going to ask if you had moved yet.

New England has some great ghost stories! I'm sure the Travel Channel will run all of their ghost shows this weekend and they have quite a few focusing on New England. We were going to go to Gettysburg once and I was all excited. Then I realized we would have to stay in an allegedly haunted b & b. We went to St. Paul instead. ;-)

[PacesPaines]

It could have been Archer Woods Cemetery. I will have to check. We also stopped at St. James-Sag, which now that I recall, was pretty eerie as well.

Ah, yes, Richard Crowe. I've never had the opportunity to go on any of his tours. Back in the 70s, he used to do an annual overnight Halloween broadcast on "Chicago" Eddie Schwartz's show on WIND radio. He'd tell all the well-known Chicago area ghost stories, as well as some lesser-known ones, and take calls from listeners with their questions & stories. That's where I first remember hearing of Resurrection Mary and Bachelor's Grove. They'd also play spooky recordings that, in retrospect, were probably more corny than anything else, but at the time seemed oh, so deliciously scary. I was just in jr high & HS back then. One of my favorite growing-up memories is sitting in the dark with my younger brothers every Halloween night, listening to this broadcast, and scaring ourselves just silly.

[Betis70]

Still watching "Most Haunted"? I think I am going to miss their special as I will be w/o a TV.

Yes all the New England ghost stories are great...when I am living in California. :) There is one that always creeps me out, about the family that moves into an old mortuary.

[zippy the razor]

[TASMANIANRED]

Really good story.

[Artemis Webb]

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