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BOO to You! View This Ghost Photo Slideshow!
Happy Halloween! To all my precious Urban Legends fans! Celebrate All Hallows Eve with us and survey these spooky specters. Are you superstitious, or just a little stitious? Find out about Halloween Superstitions and Origins at our Sister Site: Superstitionsonline.com … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ghost Stories, Pictures and Video
Save Cigarette Bands for Free Time in an Iron Lung
I was recently reminded of a legend that I heard as a child. It seemed if you saved the “red tear strip” on your cigarette wrappers you could redeem these later in life for time on a iron lung if you should ever get lung cancer or another health problem that would require you to use the machine. I ran across someone who has saved 1000′s of these red strips in case he needs them! Fred … Read entire article »
Filed under: Medical
Helping Papa in the Garden
An old Italian gentleman lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament: Dear Vincent, I am feeling pretty sad because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just … Read entire article »
Filed under: Food
Teke Teke
Teke Teke is the ghost of a Japanese schoolgirl who roams the train stations of Japan. In life, this girl was a scardey cat and people are always playing practical jokes on her. One day at the train station after school, her friends decided to put a cicada, a bug that appears in the summer in Japan, on her shoulder. Sadly, this turned out to be a fatal prank. She was so scared she fell … Read entire article »
Filed under: Bridges and Tracks, Children, Ghost Stories, Regional and Cultural
Ghosts in Swedesboro, NJ
The Suicidal Man For a few years, I lived in a building in New Jersey. It’s an old building, built in the late 1800s, so it was always creaky and slightly unsettling. I never thought anything of it until one day my mother and I were sitting outside when an elderly man approached us. He asked if we live in the building, and when we replied with yes, he went on to tell us how he … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ghost Stories, Regional and Cultural
The Slender Man | Der Großmann
The slender man is believed to be a man dressed in a black business suit, like the ones worn in men in black, and is about 6 feet tall. The slender man was a man who was beat with a log, stabbed with a 2 foot stick, and hung from a tree with his arms, hands, legs, and feet all pulled out of sockets. The legend is that in the daytime the slender man will most … Read entire article »
The Midnight Man
This game was used as a ritual to summon The Midnight Man to punish rule breakers in Pagan religions long ago. WARNING!: Play this game at your own risk of torture and death. You’ll need the following supplies to play: paper, pencil, needle, candle, a box of matches, a door and salt. Turn off all the lights. Light a candle Write your name on the paper, first, middle, and last Prick your finger with the needle … Read entire article »
Filed under: Rituals and Games
Johnny’s Last Dance: The Dead Soldier’s Waltz
Within an hour of my arrival at Fort Union, my new post, my best friend Johnny came to the barracks with a broad grin and a friendly clout on the shoulder. He’d hurried over as soon as he heard I had come, and we talked ’til sunset and beyond. As soon as Johnny mentioned Celia’s name, I knew he had it bad for her. To hear him talk, Celia was the most amazing woman who had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ghost Stories, Government and Military, Love and Marraige
Working at the Haunted Kentucky State Office building in Frankfort.
My dad works at the Kentucky State Office building in Frankfort. That building is known as one of the most haunted places in Kentucky. It’s been reported that employees have been touched by something that is not there. Some even here voices and saw shadows. The reason most people say its haunted is the fact that it was built on top of where a state penitentiary used to be. Well, one day my dad was … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ghost Stories
Picklebean’s Ballfork Creature
This legend has been told in my family for four generations now. Back in the 1940′s, my Great, Great, Great Grandpa named Francis Hatfield (Known by many as "Picklebean") was riding his horse (Yeah in Pike County we were still riding horses in the 40′s) down Ballfork mountain. It was dark and he was returning home from his job at the coal mines. He had to go up and back down the mountain to get … Read entire article »
Filed under: Regional and Cultural
