Ghost Stories

[dzandiloo]

In the spirit of Halloween week, post your favorite ghost/paranormal story here (personal stories are cool too).

Here's one of my faves (from www.whatwaswhen.com):

SAN ANTONIO, TX - You’ve probably heard this story. On a rainy Texas morning a train moves swiftly down the track making good time despite the weather. The Engineer spots something on the track, he prays his eyes are playing tricks on him even as he pulls the brake, even as he tugs on the whistle sending its shrill scream into the air, but he is not mistaken, the object before him never moves.

Despite his best efforts the train cannot be stopped in time and he watches in horror as the speeding locomotive advances on a school bus loaded with children, their terrified faces pressed against the windows as death races toward them.

The Legend states that after the children lost their lives that day on the train tracks when their bus stalled out, they have returned to make sure that no one will ever share that tragic fate. Over the years the tale became embroidered to include such embellishments as streets in the area being named for the children. The streets were actually named for the family of the developer who had planned and mapped out the neighborhood. This fact has been raised several times in rebuttal of the story of the Ghost Children of San Antonio, since skeptics feel that one false detail spoils the whole integrity of the legend, but if you doubt the story visit the beautiful city of San Antonio. The train tracks are still there, and visitors still report not only being pushed across by small invisible hands, but also hearing the laughter and voices of children.

Read more about it here:
http://paranormal.about.com/library/.../aa031201a.htm
http://www.geocities.com/rleys/report.html

[rainbowbrightCS]

I saw this story on T.V. They put some powder on the trunk and bumper of the car, then but the car in nuetral and the car was pushed uphill and over the tracks. Then they went out and found little finger print on the car.

[carnation]

I don't think I've told this one here.

About 5 years ago, I was teaching ESOL to a group of Mexican men and I had just taught them all our Halloween words like ghost, etc. and was standing several feet away from the board. The eraser on the board went straight up in the air and landed in the middle of the classroom.

There was no way someone fixed that up. I checked the eraser--no strings or anything--and the brick wall behind the room was solid.

I already mentioned this in the old "Ghosts and Paranormal" thread a few years ago, but I figured I'd update.

The kanashibari (the Japanese word for "choking ghost" hasn't visited me in my sleep for quite some time now. BUT--it seems as though my 16 year old niece has been experiencing it now. Apparently it started when she was 13, which sounds eerily similar to my experience. I can tell she's scared $#!+less.

I have a feeling that this spirit likes to prey on adolescent girls in my house. It *ONLY* happens in my house.

[AchtungBaby80]

Ooooh, my favorite topic. If you want to read some good stuff, two of my favorite websites are www.castleofspirits.com and one called Shadowlands (can't remember the address offhand).

The only spooky thing that has ever happened to me, since unfortunately I have the sensitivity of a 2 X 4 for these kinds of things, was one night a couple years ago. Me and the now-ex were sitting in his family's kitchen in Ireland around midnight, and he was telling me a story about how his father had seen this old lady that lived up the road from them after she had died. Well, directly the plastic bag in the garbage can started crackling, as though someone were stepping on it...and when I managed to get up enough courage to look, it appeared as though there really was someone standing on it but there was no one else in the kitchen with us! I was so scared I started crying, because that garbage can was right next to my chair. I know it's fun to talk about now, but I sort of hope nothing like that ever happens to me again, because it really was scary.

[CatStarESP4]

I probably mentioned this story in another thread, but I shall tell it anyway. In the first house that I have lived in (the first 4 and a half years of my life) was haunted by two ghosts. They were two sisters that occupied the house years before my parents did. However, they were harmless and allowed us to live our lives.

[WhirlwindTNX]

I heard this one online:

Some General who was expected to run for President but died wanted to be buried in a plain pine box in Erie, Pa. But a few years later his son decided that he wanted his father in the family plot in Philly so he tried to figure out how to transport him. After a couple of weeks he decided that he would have someone cut his fathers body into pieces, boil the flesh and other stuff off, and take the bones to the family plot. The son left the boiled flesh in Erie, so now every year the General rises from his grave in Philly in search of his flesh in Erie.

[DigitalAngel126]

There is a state road that goes out of town where I live -- SR 25. Also known as Devil's Backbone (it's dangerously curvy and wooded; many wrecks out there). Supposedly there was a milkman delivering mlk on that road and he got plowed over by a truck barrelling down the other side, I guess it killed him on impact. So it goes that if you are out on Devil's Backbone at the stroke of midnight, you can hear the glass milk jars rattling and see him pacing the street. Supposedly he won't bother you unless you're in a truck, then he tries to make you wreck. Who knows...I had a friend that lived out there and I used to be out at all hours...Never saw him.

[carnation]

Here's another one. I taught at a high school in the next county for several years and heard a couple of years ago that this really gung-ho teacher and counselor had died. She loved that school--would work late, practically lived there!

So I told a teacher from that county that I was sad that Mrs. Silvers had died and she said, "Umm, there have been some sightings lately." It seems that the new janitor, who was autistic, had been working very late and he commented to the principal that if that silver-haired teacher didn't quit staying so late, he was never going to get her room cleaned. On his way out, he pointed to a picture of Mrs. Silvers with the drama team and said, "Oh, there she is."

There is no way that this guy was capable of making this up. He didn't know Mrs. Silvers nor would he have known she was dead.