Now I've been around long enough to hear many good ghost stories .
Some ghost stories are on the humorous side. People play pranks on others using a ghost theme.
Other ghost stories are those that relate an incident which can be used to explain an incident that is odd.
Some ghost stories come from those who firmly think that there are ghosts.
If we go back in history there is much about ghosts. They used ghosts to explain many happenings.
The Arctic has generated many excellent ghost stories. Many people lived in very isolated areas and some saw very few people in a year. Traders would sometimes go for months without seeing anybody. Some of them were spooked. Many trappers lived alone for long periods of time.
Hudson Bay trading post buildings were built in the same style. They were small story and a half buildings. There are many stories about hearing steps moving across the second story floor. There have been stories about boots that seem to move .
One night visitors came to a lonely trader. The visitors knew about the trader's story. They carefully set up a situation with string so that they could move boots across the floor. The trader would hear steps and go up and check. Sure enough the boots had moved but there was nothing there. He would come down and continue his meal until the boots moved again. Needless to say, it was a fun evening and the visitors admitted their prank.
I was once on a church work party and I went up the stepladder to replace burned out light bulbs. The lights were about 14 ft up. I moved from light to light. Finally I got to the front right hand corner. When I was at the top of the ladder I heard a swishing sound between me and the wall. If I was still the noise swishing sound was less . If I moved the swishing became louder. So was there something up in the corner telling me to go away? It was an experience that I have never forgotten.
What do I think? I think that for some reason there was static electricity and when I moved the static electricity was more active. I've heard similar stories and they are used to prove the absolute existence of ghosts. The stories go on about the many funerals held in the church and that some of the spirits are left and are angry.
Well, I find a good ghost story interesting. What about you? What is your thinking about ghosts.? Do you have some good ghost stories?
I don't really believe in ghosts but I also think it's silly to discount the possibility. What do we really know about such things?
ReplyDeleteMany years ago I went on a "ghost tour" of the convict prison at Port Arthur. It was mid winter, cold and dark, the tour group stood on a verandah outside a haunted house and the guide told me he could see the resident ghost right behind me. I didn't feel anything at all and as I write, I realise I was probably the youngest in the group.
I like your story, I'm glad the ghost didn't scare you from your ladder
It's the unexplainable that makes the story
DeleteI love a good ghost story. I know many people play pranks but I do believe there are some situations that are real and can not be explained.
ReplyDeleteI worked in a medical office for 18 years and many people believed it was haunted by at least two spirits. Strange things often happened that could not be explained. The building had once been a church back in the 40's and 50's and some people wondered if there was a connection with the church and what was seen and heard. Several people witnessed a drawer fly open and go across the room and then crashed to the floor. No one was near it when it happened. If you were there after dark the lights were often turned off in many empty rooms and you could hear strange noises frequently. I could go on but basically there was just a lot of things happening that could not be explained. It does make you wonder!
Strange things happen and the first thing you know a story is built up around it.
DeleteThe only ghosts that exist are in people's minds. Subconsciously, very many people want them to exist. Their possibility adds a frisson of excitement to the experience of everyday life. In reality, it is all a pile of nonsense.
ReplyDeleteBah humbug! You're no fun!
DeleteI have heard ghost stories when I have gone on guided walking tours in town.
ReplyDeleteGhost walking stories are very popular tourist activities.
DeleteI love a good ghost story!
ReplyDeleteYou can get kids attention when you tell ghost stories.
DeleteMy uncle’s wife came from a very Irish part of Newfoundland and told stories about leprechauns, fairies and ghosts. I was fascinated by them as a child, scared but interested for sure.
ReplyDeleteGreat stories out of Newfoundland. I loved working with Newfoundlanders in the Arctic. Great fun.
DeleteThat was a good one, Red. I hope it was static electricity and not a ghost! Plus I don't really believe in them.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how it's an experience that you never forget.
DeleteMy father's family had a very very old small beach hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey. We would go there sometimes and spend a few days. There was a ghost in that old hotel. I saw it once when I was looking in the mirror, I briefly saw it scurry behind me. When I turned around it was gone. My sister just confirmed the story and said she encountered it on more than one occasion. I haven't thought of that in so many, many years. Thank you for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteFunny how you both had the same experience.
DeleteNever saw one, and don't want to, because they're unclean spirits. Not cool.
ReplyDeleteSome people certainly have that view.
DeleteNot sure if I believe in ghosts or not but have experienced some strange happenings. We rented a house many years ago that was built very near an Indian burial ground. We were always finding arrowheads and pieces of pottery. But the strangest things happened in that house like doorknobs turning late at night and a chair being moved around. Seriously! I would NOT have spent one night alone there!
ReplyDeleteSimilar to the story I told about the boots.
DeleteI've heard a few ghost stories but never experienced a ghost myself which is good. :)
ReplyDeleteThere are some great ghost stories and many kinds as you can see in the comment.
DeleteI think that ghosts are not trapped souls but echoes left behind in a place.
ReplyDeleteI have had two experiences in my life. One while walking through a park and feeling a tug at my leg, like a small child trying to het my attention.
The second was at a former apartment I lived at. My roommate was away for the night and I was in my room. The radio came on in the living room and started playing blues music. No one was there.
There are many explanations on ghosts and that is part of the interest.
DeleteI like that: 'echoes'.
DeleteI knew a woman who saw animal spirits. She asked me, did you have a taffy colored cat with a short tail. Yes, I said. He was my favorite cat of all time.
ReplyDeleteAh, she said, that must be why he is lingering and lingering here.
I've never heard this type of story before.
DeleteI do not believe in ghosts but that may be because I have never had anything unexplainable happen to me.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe I've never had anything unexplainable happen because I don't believe in ghosts, and therefore am better able to find an explanation.
Yes, some people are excellent at making explanations.
DeleteI do enjoy a good ghost story. I try to keep an open mind though and never discount a person's encounter, though I have only heard one personally, from my mother. She was staying with a friend whose husband was away, and the friend was a bit nervous about being on her own. My mother took my sister and me along with her, my Dad used to work nights so she was glad for the company too. I was no more than a baby, my sister three years' old. It was one of those old Victorian houses. Years later we were talking about my honorary aunty, her friend, and she told me that she had awakened to find a man in Victorian clothes, a high neck collar, a bowler hat, standing at the end of the bed looking at her. And then he disappeared. Now, was it a dream? Maybe but she was convinced she had seen a ghost.
ReplyDeleteYou can't argue with people who have these experiences.
DeleteWhile I personally have never seen or felt the presence of a ghost, we live in a former mill building. There had reportedly been deaths here from industrial accidents. My husband says we have a ghostly presence in our apt and he has dubbed her "abby."
ReplyDeleteStories of deaths bring on many ghost stories.
DeleteThe Historical Museum had a resident ghost his name was Gus...he liked to make things fall off the walls. He was a friendly ghost ...but I could feel his prescence:)
ReplyDeleteGreat story. There are many similar stories.
ReplyDeleteI remember you telling this story when you had summer work at the museum.
ReplyDeleteI'm not the kind of person to believe in such things. However, when my father died I took over tending the garden at my mother's house. I'm not much of a gardener and often stood wondering exactly what I was supposed to be doing. On several occasions it felt as though my dad was right there beside me and I heard him tell me what to do. I suspect I was merely remembering little bits of advice he'd passed on years before when I used to help him, rather reluctantly, in the garden. I can well imagine how people might believe in ghosts.
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ReplyDeleteI like a good ghost story and I do keep an open mind.
Take care, have a happy day and week ahead.
The Civil War battlefields have a number of ghost stories to go along with them. I'm not sure about ghosts but have seen enough unexplainable things to not discount them altogether. Dunno, but I can guarantee you that I won't go looking for them.
ReplyDeletei enjoyed this so much dear Red
ReplyDeleteit reminded me ghost stories told by my grandma .she would walk for so many miles those days as my grandfather was in army and she had to travel long and lot for grocery.bus was probably once in a week or something like this.grandma would tell how ghosts used to accompany her throughout her way .it would get little dark to reach home back even she would set off early in the morning .she would say ghost would try to frightened me with various trick ,she would sometime cry ,sometime laugh and sometime would change her shape rabbit to horse ,horse to donkey etc .
she was never ran out of stories as ghost stories were essential part of family sittings after dinner time which was done mostly around eight or even earlier. i still wonder why i could not feel scared even though i was child from city
Some of our regular followers here really got going on this. I'm thinking ghosts may fall within the definition of paranormal events. Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. That is according to Wikipedia.
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