Scary Stories, in the Halloween Spirit

[L107ANGEL]

Wow OP, you are an amazing writer!!!! Thank you for sharing!

 

[Seewhatimesdone]

I don't see anything in that picture

 

[rn2b]

I see what looks like an old man in the upper pane of the window, is that what we're talking about?

Ok, Here's my own ghoulie story....
Years and years ago, I was in college and home on break, and my brother was home from the Navy. My roomate had gotten a Ouija board and I had brought it home to "play" with. My mom and I got on first and nothing happended, next my mom and brother tried, again no activity. So then my brother and I gave it one last try. The pointer reacted very strongly this time and we asked some silly questions and got some silly answers.

Then all of a sudden it started slowly spelling out my brothers name, he is named after our father, and our grandfather as well. My grandfather and grandmother were both passed away, and we had then grown up in the house my grandfather had died in. Anyways, it started by claiming it was our grandfather and seemed to want to speak to my brother specifically. At the time, my brother was stationed in Norfolk Va and had a tendency to work his shifts and drive home (8 hours) without having slept in the last 24 hours. He would always be really tired but would do the drive anyway. Anyways, on this trip home he had done the same thing, but this time had fallen asleep and just woken up in time to see himself veering off the road. Whoever was on the other end of the board claimed it had been my grandfather had placed a hand on his shoulder to wake him up?!?
And so our curiosity was peaked, and my father asked the board questions to which my brother and I had no idea what the answers were, such as what was my grandfathers first car, my grandmothers bloodtype and things, and we were getting correct answers!!!
It was a very odd night, but we don't know who or what was on the other end, but we ended up calling it quits when the board typed out witch and pointed at yours truly. I don't know if the other end switched to another whatever, or what, but that was enough for me, and I have never used one again!

 

[Nancy]

This is the original with my face wiped out. I was putting my arm around a "pretend ghost" and really hoping something would show up right next to me.

 

[zackiedawg]

Jenvenza and Starrzone...great stories - thanks for sharing and adding them to the scary stories thread!

Nancy, I don't know for sure what it is, or if it's because you mentioned it, but I can definitely see what looks to be a pale, blue-white hollow face grimacing in the window, with tall hair or some kind of hat or bonnet and an upper body. Spirit? Grease? Dirt swirls? Ghost? Our imagination? Who knows - but it's definitely fun to let everyone come up with their own theories!

PLEASE don't be insulted your story was fantastic but I have to ask did it really happen? You are a fantastic writer. I know you said it did but it is just mind numbingly frightening. Can you somehow turin it into a script. The tag line based on a true story would sell it big time.
You had a lot of creative energy in the room and I wonder if the entity fed off of it. If you look at Ghost Hunters or even the many experiences on the Ghost Hunter's thread we have on the DIS none of them come close to yours. Creative people's brains are wired differntly than the average person.
In one respect I want you to tell me it is a true story and not a work of fiction on the other hand if it is true

Thank you Bella...no offense at all! I wouldn't have shared it if I was worried what others might think...and since even I don't claim to know what was behind what happened that night, I figured best to just tell the tale as well as I know how to make it interesting, and let everyone form their own opinions. As a born-debunker myself, I'd never be offended at someone wondering about the veracity of a story!

I can promise this - the people mentioned were real, the ouija session really happened, and all of the unexplained events that occurred as I described actually happened. I like to try to describe emotions, visuals, and feelings to make them more immersive, and to 'dramatize' the story - and of course shortened the story to fit into a reasonable length for posting on the web - the actual session lasted many hours.

Those who believe in those things likely would be willing to accept what happened as ghostly or spiritual, those who do not will think the whole thing made up. The third option would be if those things happened and were part of an elaborate prank or production - something I would never put past folks in Hollywood who are overly creative, have lots of free time, and money to play with. If you held me down and forced me to give my opinion, I'd lean towards this option...but then again I am a skeptic! But if it was, I didn't catch any of the trickery in action, and can't easily explain how it was pulled off so convincingly. If it was something else...then I am very happy to have made it out alive! Either way, skeptic or believer, I'm not messing with voodoo, curses, ghosts, ouija boards, satanic rituals, incantations, or anything else like that. Even if I don't believe in those things, the penalty for being wrong is too great to take the chance.

Wow OP, you are an amazing writer!!!! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you so much.

Ok, Here's my own ghoulie story....

Great story, rn2b. Another person who won't be messing with ouija boards anymore, huh! When those things get mean or creepy, time to pack up the board in the box and lose it in a dumpster on the side of the road!

Keep the ghost stories coming, everyone!

 

[L107ANGEL]

I personally would love to hear about all the details. As I said, you are an amazing writer!! Please don't think you will bore us!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

I personally would love to hear about all the details. As I said, you are an amazing writer!! Please don't think you will bore us!

My son got an EVP in my house it was a woman saying "help me"( I get chills writing this). I could not sleep for days it scared me so much. I posted it on the Ghost Hunter's thread but just let me say I made my husband go to the attic with smudge(smoking sage) and tell her to leave. I have lived in my house for close to 30 years and lots of strange things have happened.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

Jenvenza and Starrzone...great stories - thanks for sharing and adding them to the scary stories thread!

Nancy, I don't know for sure what it is, or if it's because you mentioned it, but I can definitely see what looks to be a pale, blue-white hollow face grimacing in the window, with tall hair or some kind of hat or bonnet and an upper body. Spirit? Grease? Dirt swirls? Ghost? Our imagination? Who knows - but it's definitely fun to let everyone come up with their own theories!



Thank you Bella...no offense at all! I wouldn't have shared it if I was worried what others might think...and since even I don't claim to know what was behind what happened that night, I figured best to just tell the tale as well as I know how to make it interesting, and let everyone form their own opinions. As a born-debunker myself, I'd never be offended at someone wondering about the veracity of a story!

I can promise this - the people mentioned were real, the ouija session really happened, and all of the unexplained events that occurred as I described actually happened. I like to try to describe emotions, visuals, and feelings to make them more immersive, and to 'dramatize' the story - and of course shortened the story to fit into a reasonable length for posting on the web - the actual session lasted many hours.

Those who believe in those things likely would be willing to accept what happened as ghostly or spiritual, those who do not will think the whole thing made up. The third option would be if those things happened and were part of an elaborate prank or production - something I would never put past folks in Hollywood who are overly creative, have lots of free time, and money to play with. If you held me down and forced me to give my opinion, I'd lean towards this option...but then again I am a skeptic! But if it was, I didn't catch any of the trickery in action, and can't easily explain how it was pulled off so convincingly. If it was something else...then I am very happy to have made it out alive! Either way, skeptic or believer, I'm not messing with voodoo, curses, ghosts, ouija boards, satanic rituals, incantations, or anything else like that. Even if I don't believe in those things, the penalty for being wrong is too great to take the chance.



Thank you so much.



Great story, rn2b. Another person who won't be messing with ouija boards anymore, huh! When those things get mean or creepy, time to pack up the board in the box and lose it in a dumpster on the side of the road!

Keep the ghost stories coming, everyone!

The thing one or two of the events could have been an elaborte hoax but when I re read the story I have to ask how could all of them be? Getting chills right now.

 

[pomcoach]

wanted to see or feel something. Anyhow this is the window and the panes marked were right above my head. Tellme if you see anything.

Sorry I can not seem to figure out how this Quote thing works. But I will tell you what I think I see in the photo. To me, I see a very handsome man, kind of the James Bond type, very short hair, maybe an American Indian type man and possibly has his shirt off. He is relaxed sitting down and seems to have one arm resting maybe on a chair rail. He's staring very intently and looks slightly annoyed or mad.

OK, maybe you are laughing at me and detect some Freud telling signs there - Ha Ha, handsome man with shirt off!! Ha Ha
But that's what I see!

 

[TotalSnowWhite]

Great story!! Do another one!! Another one!! I haven't read past the first page, but I will definitely come back and catch up on the thread. I'm exhausted and can't have too much of this creeping into my subconscious before bed!!

 

[Pikester]

In the spirit of Halloween I just wanted to post a site that I often find myself reading when I am in the mood for a little scare. Its called The Shadowland:Ghost and Hauntings. Just go to the top of the homepage and click on True Stories, then click on Real Experiences. There are 13 pages to choose from.

Make sure you don't read them at night before you go to bed!

Link:
http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/index.html

 

[ont/ohana]

Thank you zackiedawg, that was great!! I have had chills since I read it. My Bday is oct 30 so I'm a bit of a believer but I do like proof!!!

 

[annnewjerz]

So I was sitting here looking through pictures I took the other weekend and stumbled across one of my old workplace (while I was in college - I was a receptionist here at a therapist's office). This place was BY FAR the spookiest place I have ever been. This is the building.

Imagine leaving this house every night with the entire building PITCH BLACK with the exception of the one window in the middle of the house which was illuminated by the lights we left on in the main stairwall when we left. There were MANY nights when I swore that when I would drive by to leave, if I just glanced up I would see someone there standing in the window looking out at the river.

For a little background, this house is located in historic Burlington, NJ on the Delaware River. It was built in the 1800's and was the house of General Edward Burd Grubb of the Civil War (along with a few others in that row of houses). One stand-out feature of this house is that it was part of the Underground Railroad. One night, one of the therapists that worked in the building took me into the basement to show me the bricked up arches that used to form the tunnels under the town for slaves traveling up the river.

This one therapist in particular had always tried to convince us that the house was haunted, this being particularly funny because a bunch of women worked there alone every night and at the time, being only 19 I was (and still am) a big baby. I had heard on VARIOUS occassions what sounded like children running up and down the huge wooden stairway that led upstairs and had gone out into the waiting room to scold the children and tell them to stay in their seats while waiting for their appointment...only to find all of them sitting on the floor playing. I should have known then that this was going to be a problem.

Fred had told us stories from historic ledgers that he had read and also told us first-hand experiences he had in the building. One particular day on a weekend, Fred came into the building to pick up some work he had left behind. Upon entering the building, he claims to have heard a piano playing and a woman singing. He walked down one of the long hallways towards the sound of the music which was coming from the sitting room, which was now converted into a meeting hall of sorts. He heard the piano playing and the singing until he reached the room, at which point it stopped. Needless to say, there were no people and no pianos here.

A few nights later, we were closing up the building and setting the alarms at 9:00 when the last appointment had left. The procedure was to turn out all of the lights, check all of the doors, stand really still in the waiting room and then when the motion sensors were not recording any movement...set the alarm, leave and lock the door before triggering the alarm. On this particular night I proceeded to lock the front and side doors, as well as the door in the meeting room where the piano had been playing a few days earlier. I turned off all of the lights and with two of the other therapists, stood in the waiting room to set the alarm. The control panel said "Movement in living room." Not remembering that Fred had told us the meeting room had actually been the house's "living room"...we figured we had moved and again, stood still. Again, movement in the living room.

We gave it one last shot and finally we were able to set the alarm. We walked outside and just as I was about to lock the door, the alarm started beeping. All three of us walked back in, disables the alarm and prepared to set it again...only to see that there was "Movement in the living room." Again. Now that I began thinking about it, I remembered what Fred had told me and patched it together with the story about the piano and woman singing. We waited another minute or two to set the alarm and finally we were able. We got outside, locked the door and just upon getting to our cars the alarms sounded.

Needless to say, we didn't go back in. I called the office manager, told her about the problems we were having and that I would be unable to lock up. NO WAY was I going back in there.

I don't know why I didn't include that story earlier. I'm not sure if the motion sensors on the alarm was a coincidence, or a faulty piece of equipment...whether the children running up and down the stairs were just the sounds that an old building makes at night or what, but I sure am happy not to work there anymore.

 

[zackiedawg]

That place looks pretty spooky - even without knowing any history or hearing any stories about it! Combine the age of the place, the history, and a few unexplained events, and you've got the makings of a great haunted house and some creepy ghost stories! Thanks for sharing that one, Ann.

 

[starrzone]

On the subject of houses, take a look at this one; it's located in the city where I live:

I tried my best to find some information on it, but came up blank. All I know is that the house is a very popular spot for tourists to take pictures; I'm sure there are some very interesting stories connected with it!

 

[WDWBarb]

On the subject of houses, take a look at this one; it's located in the city where I live:

I tried my best to find some information on it, but came up blank. All I know is that the house is a very popular spot for tourists to take pictures; I'm sure there are some very interesting stories connected with it!

What a GORGEOUS home!! I would so love to live in a house like that!!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

We have one down the street from me that looks like the home in Canada it is a funeral home though.

 

[Poohbear123]

On the subject of houses, take a look at this one; it's located in the city where I live:

I tried my best to find some information on it, but came up blank. All I know is that the house is a very popular spot for tourists to take pictures; I'm sure there are some very interesting stories connected with it!

My kind of Home, looks Spooky! Great story zackiedawg, was one of the "guests" the Son of Frank Sinatra?

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

My kind of Home, looks Spooky! Great story zackiedawg, was one of the "guests" the Son of Frank Sinatra?

NO I am thinking Bing Crosby.

Zakie....will you give us a hint if we get it?

 

[zackiedawg]

If someone guesses right, I'll NOT deny it...how about that?

I can deny Sinatra and Crosby so far.