Spooky Ghost Stories/Legends

[Aragorn]

Now that is a classic.

[Christiefries]

Once upon a time...

Christie was born.

*screams*

[Aragorn]

Once upon a time...

Christie was born.

*screams*

Lame.

[Foster]

Oh, it's better if I could string the yarn out with allitteration, to drive-home how precise the details of every bit of that reoccuring nightmare were exactly the same.

Their physical descriptions, actual names, and such have been lost on me... but I'm sure the person who told the story knows... It was his grandfather...

Here's one from '07, cleanup was kinda surreal.. like raining toads...

Now go find yourself a Slendy

[PaladinFoster]

So, I am a firm believer in the supernatural and ghosts and all of that nifty stuff and after my Brit Lit and Mythology class, I have just been in a spooky kind of mood. Anyone have some local legends about the area where they live or some nifty ghost stories you have heard? Even some possible things that have happened to you. Whether you believe them or not, I don't give a damn. I just want to read something interesting. :3

Personally I don't put any credit at all in the supernatural, but I enjoy a good ghost story sometimes anyway so what the hell. Two I know of are supposedly true stories about the small town in North Carolina I live in. It's an old place that's been around since the American Revolution, so it's accumulated a good bit of history. It's a sleepy, old town called Statesville.

The first tale I'll tell is the least significant, but still creepy. Legend has it that the town's courthouse, constructed roughly 100 years ago, bears a dark secret. It was during this construction, during a hot, humid North Carolina summer, that a construction worker met a nasty end. He was tired and drowsy, so he hid inside a half complete brick wall to take a nap without the foreman's knowledge. Turns out this was the worst decision of his life, and his last, since another worker was assigned to finish the wall. The man died inside that wall, Cask of Amontillado style. It was only months later, when people noticed the smell, that his body was discovered. To this day, people occasionally report screams and scratching noises coming from inside the walls of the old courthouse.

My next tale is far more historically significant, as it involves a terrible disaster. In 1891, a train jumped the tracks on a bridge in Statesville called the Bostian Bridge. Twenty two deaths and countless injuries resulted from the accident, which is to this day the worst in Statesville's history. It's become a common thing for ghost hunters and other thrill seekers to come to the bridge on the anniversary of the disaster every year, as many legends and accounts exist of ghostly manifestations of the train appearing on that date exist. Here's photo of the wreckage:

[Foster]

1891?

Well, how about the story about the Florida keys Bridge, and the fate of that 'Bonus Army' you heard about in high-school?



BTW, those weren't CS-gas grenades... that was WW1-surplus mustard-gas after they crossed the bridge...

[Ernest]

I'm from DC we don't have that many ghost stories besides a few buisiness men and politicians commuting suicide when shit got heavy on them. Then we had the exorcist and a gang related murders turned massacres. I think there was one about some jerk in a rabbit suit down south in Virginia cutting up a bunch of honey mooners dumb enough to spend there honey moon in a abandoned forest