Childhood ghost stories

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 17 Dec 2011, 22:58

I got this from another forum. When most of us were kids, there were always stories going around about haunted houses, ghosts, stuff like that. Mine is that when I was about 12 or 13 we lived in a small town in Idaho, and across the street from us there was a guy who lived alone in an old Victorian house, he wore pancake makeup and looked like Dracula, the Christopher Lee version. He drove a big black 1937 Packard car that looked like something a vampire would drive. He was supposed to have slept in a coffin during the day in a shed in his back yard, it was surrounded by a 10 foot high hedge. This one kid claimed he even saw him in it. He was supposed to have enticed young girls back there and drink their blood. None of us kids would even go near that place. He was an opera singer, he would play the piano and practice singing at night in a room at the top of his house. Really creepy, it sounded like a 1940's horror film. He eventually ended up in prison, he tried to throw some girl under a train. Funny how those stories get started. Anyone have any stories like that?

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 18 Dec 2011, 01:23

Most of my childhood memories are pretty tame compared to that! We had the usual cranky old ladies, druggies, vacant houses and empty allotments but my cousins had a real 'haunted' house near them. Whenever we would visit and head off to the park together, they would always cross over to the other side of the road instead of passing directly in front of this derelict house. There were tales of a murder and reports of howling, knocking, vapours, strange lights and weird goings-on. However, these things were urban legend and never actually seen by my cousins. One day we got brave and peered between the cracks of the broken-down garage and saw an old vintage car heavily covered in dust and grime and cobwebs. To this day I often wonder what happened to the owners, and that old car, and I can still feel the spooky tingle up my spine.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 18 Dec 2011, 06:34

As I grew up in Ireland you can imagine there was no shortage of ghost & fairy stories surrounding us. Mostly it was stories told by friends & neighbours. I remember being scared to bits by many of these stories.
There were lost of neighbours who were adamant they had encountered ghosts on various occasions & my mother who is a very 'old style' Catholic woman but she fervently believes she heard the Banshee some years ago.
They say here that the coming of electric light banished all the ghosts!

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 18 Dec 2011, 09:57

@ Fran, thats an interesting thought. Maybe electric lights scared the ghosts off. Ghost stories were invented in your part of the world. The town I lived in Utah was an old mining ghost town in the mountains, and had its share of haunted houses. We had two houses and they were supposed to be haunted. The one we lived in my daughter said she saw strange things at night, shapes moving around and noises. My wife and I never saw anything but maybe we didnt have the imagination for that stuff. The other house the renters said there was a ghostly woman who would be seen in the kitchen baking bread and rolls, I told them to leave her a note to leave us some cinnamon rolls.

There was the old Fitch house. the Fitches were mining big shots in the 1800's and had this big old house that was supposed to have a ghost that would slap your face. It was mentioned on that ghost show that was on the Travel channel. Its a bread and breakfast now, but the owners said they saw some strange things. There was another house that was haunted, everyone who lived there said they saw ghosts except for the last people who lived there, but they were newlyweds and probably had other things on their mind.

They tore it down, it was contaminated with lead. Maybe ghosts like lead.

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 18 Dec 2011, 10:07

@ Bighuey, im pretty sure your phantom was just a kiddy fiddler!

I heard the usual fairy and banshee tales growing up but the only one i believed was an old hotel in Wexford called Loftus Hall that was supposed to be haunted (story goes the Devil visited the place on a dark stormy night in the 1800s and was invited in for a game of cards; when another of the players dropped his card he bent down and saw the guest had hooves for feet, at which point the Devil flew through the roof, laughing, and left a hole in the ceiling that could never be repaired.

I visited the place (its abandoned now) with a few of the lads years ago and although it was daylight we were very creeped out and the place just oozed menace, i would never spend the night anyway...

TimeKeeperApprentice · Post by **TimeKeeperApprentice** » 18 Dec 2011, 14:57

Here's my story

Father, Brother, and I were on the way to school. We take the same route everyday. One of the places we pass by is the Graveyard. It was to early in the morning for the grave workers to arrive.The lights were off.{about 7 a.m}. I was bored so I glanced out the window of our and stared at a window where the workers stay. Then suddenly, a white figure glides down the hall. I blinked a few times, thinking that my eyes were wrong. Then the same figure glides down the hall again through another window. For some reason I wasn't that scared...

-- 18 Dec 2011, 15:14 --

I'd like to tell some other stories. These are NOT my experiences. {These are real stories experienced in Yellow Stone National Park}

Many people had these experiences. One day a hotel resident was walking in the halls. When she saw a child. About the age of five. He was crying. He told her he wants his mother. So she took his hand and walked to the hotel clerk's desk. When she told them about the mysterious child she looked to see where he was. He was gone. The woman told the clerk that he was here and she was holding his hand. The clerk glanced at another worker. The clerk told her that this ALREADY happened many times. No one knows who the little boy was, or who his parents were. For some reason, he only appears in the day, and only shows himself once to a person.

One day, when a soldier froze to death his other fellow soldiers brought him to camp. They wanted to play poker. So they had an idea that they let the dead soldier play as well. They played all night long. When the sun came up and shone on the dead soldiers face. The soldiers saw his hand move to lay his cards down. When they saw this they RAN for their lives.

whybark · Post by **whybark** » 13 Oct 2013, 02:05

Bloody Mary

srittyx3 · Post by **srittyx3** » 05 Jan 2014, 14:03

Oh my god, Bloody Mary still is scary to me..

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 05 Jan 2014, 20:37

Then theres the Bear Lake sea serpent in Utah. Its been seen there off and on since the 1800's. The story is that it had terrorized the communities around the lake so much, that the residents got together and got hold of Pecos Bill from Texas to deal with the monster. Well, he caught it and wrestled it for three days and three nights, caused a hurricane that almost destroyed the county and Bill finally grabbed it by the tail and swung it around a bunch of times and let it go. It went so high it was mistaken for Halley's comet, and it came down in Scotland in Loch Ness where it lives to this day.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 07 Jan 2014, 12:32

B.H. remember those scary radio shows?.............that squeaking door, The Shadow, Inner Sanctum, etc....

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 07 Jan 2014, 20:09

I do remember those programs. Suspense, Hall Of Fantasy, The Whistler and many more. Ive just been listening to Murder At Midnight, that was a good one.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 08 Jan 2014, 10:07

i've always preferred RADIO over TV..............like reading, one gets to use their imagination more..............what do you think ?

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 09 Jan 2014, 10:47

Thats true. Theater of the mind as someone put it. Whenever I get tired of watching TV, Ill listen to a few of my radio shows, theres more to them.

Back to ghost stories, there was an old abandoned brewery in Couer D' Alene Idaho that all the neighborhood kids said was haunted. Some guy was murdered there, and it was claimed his ghost was seen in the place. It was a scary looking place at night especially. It was in the middle of a field, weeds and dead trees all around it and it gave one the creeps just looking at it.