Childhood ghost stories

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 10 Jan 2014, 13:23

who said " if you can " think " it, it's conceivable............i truly believe that...

kengeeb · Post by **kengeeb** » 10 Jan 2014, 15:25

Bloody Mary used to scare me too!

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 10 Jan 2014, 16:17

suzy1124 wrote:who said " if you can " think " it, it's conceivable............i truly believe that...

Was that perchance good old Alfred Hichcock

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 10 Jan 2014, 16:23

Could very well be Fran, i never missed a show...

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 10 Jan 2014, 16:29

suzy1124 wrote:Could very well be Fran, i never missed a show...

I remember he used to do that profile bit at the beginning & he used to start with "Good evening" in that really menacing voice ... that's when I used to run behind the sofa

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 12 Jan 2014, 06:34

They say in " real life " he was a very mean man...( Tipi Hedren, "The Birds " )....who happens to be Melanie Griffith's mother...

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 12 Jan 2014, 08:07

Its not known by everyone but the one that scared me silly growing up was that of Loftus Hall, a huge mansion down near the South East of Ireland in a barren area near a peninsula. The Hall is reported to be the most haunted house in Ireland after an alleged visit there by the Devil himself in 1754. The story is one stormy night, the wealthy Tottenhem family were dining when a loud knock came to the door. The father Charles answered and a handsome young man appeared saying his boat crashed on nearby rocks and he needed a place to stay the night. They invited him to dinner and cards, and during the game, Charles dropped his card, when he went down to pick it up he noticed the visitor had hoofs for feet, at which stage the "man" let out a roar, turned into a fireball and flew through the roof, a roof which they havent been able to fix since. The young daughter 18yr old Anne went insane after what she witnessed and was locked up in the Tapestry Room of the house until her death...

Now, thats the story but the truth is probably that Anne had a fling with a passing sailor and the family were so ashamed of the pregnancy (they were elite and prominent members of society) they locked her away then killed the child at the birth. An infant skeleton was found walled up in the Tapestry Room during renovations in 1870. Anne was so angry at how her family treated her she allegedly devil worshipped in order to curse the house, a priest had to be called in to exorcise the house, now this is 100% true as its down on record in the Catholic church and the priest, Thomas Broaders, is buried with the epitath that he banished the Devil from Loftus Hall. Father Broaders almost died from the effort of the week long exorcism and in the end could only contain the evil to one room- the Tapestry Room. That room was locked up and never used when nuns took over in 1890, it remained locked up right up to 1980 when new owners took it over as a hotel and even then they only opened it twice a year to give it a quick 5 minute clean and got out as fast as possible.

Sadly the Hall seems to genuinely be cursed as bad luck followed anyone who took it over. The nuns lasted 20years before a series of very strange deaths (people dying on the famous Grand Staircase in the middle of the house, drownings, a lot of suicides) led them to move on. The hotel owners husband dropped dead one day on the Staircase and his hair was white when they found him, the owners moved out and boarded up the place. Now its open as a tourist attraction, they have left the Hall pretty much as they found it and opened it up for tours. Having been on 2 tours, I can easily say the place has an absolutely horrible and malevolent atmosphere, from the faded wallpaper to the old church and the infamous Tapestry Room where they bring you into and it hits you straight away that the room is evil. Taking away any gimmicks and drama, that room is genuinely frightening and Im a skeptic who thinks 99% of ghost sightings and haunted are fake. Certainly the place left me scared for weeks afterwards and I would never return there, I felt a thousand eyes watching me in that place. Anyway, that was a long post! If anyone is interested in seeing some of the interior and exterior of the Hall, I add a link to a local Radio Station, BeatFM, when they took a tour of the place. Eerie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXwlFnfExd8

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 12 Jan 2014, 08:18

Yikes, SKM, you've scared me so much I'm not even going to click on the YouTube video lest I have nightmares

!!

StephenKingman · Post by **StephenKingman** » 12 Jan 2014, 08:22

^ Ha ha maybe wait until morning time Maud (not sure what time it is where you are). I would like to say its only for show but sadly the house really is as horrible as its made out and shown on the clip. Are you brave enough...

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 12 Jan 2014, 08:27

Weelll, it is 11.26pm Sunday night here so I might give it a miss until morning.....<chicken clucking noise>.....

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 12 Jan 2014, 10:21

Wow, thats some story Mike. I can believe it about an evil feeling. Ive been in a couple places like that that dont feel just right. I knew this guy who was a detective on the Salt Lake City police force, and he said where ever there was a room where a brutal murder was commited, he could feel a dark evil presence in the room. Scary stuff.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 12 Jan 2014, 14:29

Borthwick Castle ( Eginburgh) was scary as hell...those massive wooden doors actually squeaked, the fog, the scary Chatelaine ( other worldly ).....
I just knew Boris Karloff or Vincent Price would be joining us at the long dinner table in the great hall...( "Haggis " was a l'il scary too ), but in reality was reminiscent of " Kishka /stuffed Derma " found in any respectable N.Y.C. Jewish Deli worth its weight in " Schmaltz "

The kicker was sleeping in the same bedroom as Mary Queen of Scotts slept in during her time at the castle............quite an experience albeit scary and stressful...

srittyx3 · Post by **srittyx3** » 12 Jan 2014, 15:29

There was this creepy book that I used to read as a child: In a Dark, Dark Room & Other Scary Stories.
I just read this the other day and laughed at how silly I was to be creeped out by it.

suzy1124 · Post by **suzy1124** » 13 Jan 2014, 07:26

I hear ya!...most scary things become laughable as we mature...

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 13 Jan 2014, 10:05

Thats like a movie I saw when I was about 6 or 7 called Scared To Death. It was an old Bela Lugosi flick and I saw it in a theater with my parents and it scared the crap out of me, I had nightmares over it. I found it on a DVD a few years ago and its kind of laughable watching it now. The ending is still kind of creepy, but its mostly just a silly B movie.