I’m all for equal opportunity, two weeks ago my blog was about Mom ghosts, so this week I’m going to write about Dad ghosts. Let’s just jump into the first story from a site called Your Ghost Stories: My father passed away on May 19th, 2005, about two weeks before I graduated from high school….
Category: Freaky Friday
Ghost Stories
This month is a busy month for me. I get a number of requests to tell ghost stories at local libraries, museums, and even our local radio station. Of course, it makes sense with Halloween being the big holiday in October. But did you ever consider why ghost stories are so intriguing to most of…
Ghost Moms
With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, I thought we could talk about ghost moms. The first story, from Deseret News, is about an experience four Spanish Fork Utah police officers had in March 2015. On Saturday, around noon, a fisherman spotted a vehicle in the Spanish Fork River. The vehicle was resting on its…
Black-Eyed Kids
Several years ago, I was listening to a podcast about Black-eyed Kids or BEK phenomenon. It was an occurrence that I’d never heard of before. But as I listened, I felt the chills creep up my spine and I found myself watching out the window, just to be sure there were no black-eyed kids in…
Those Who Watch Over
Over twenty years ago, my grandmother on my mother’s side passed away. I didn’t really know her very well, I probably saw her less than a dozen times in my life. During her final years, she lived with my mother in Arizona and finally succumbed to stomach cancer. About a week after her death, I…
Cruising Reddit
Reddit is an odd conglomeration of social news, web content ratings and discussions. Basically, it’s a web-based bulletin board where you (if you’re a member) can discuss anything from politics to fitness. My favorite parts of Reddit are the ghost storyboards. There are some stories posted there that will make you shiver down to your toes. …
Doppelgangers
When you hear the word “doppelganger” for the first time, you might think it’s a delicious German pastry, or perhaps part of a weather channel’s radar. But you’d be wrong. The term doppelganger is German for doppel- meaning double, and ganger – meaning goer. A double goer – or, a second self. Some people refer…
Carolina University Ghosts
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina with a specter… Isn’t that the way the song goes? Well, it should. Especially if you’re at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee or the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Both campuses have plenty of ghostly stories to sing about. The Western Carolinian reported on the Scott…
Marbles
I know I’m supposed to be writing about haunted universities – and I was, until I was writing about marbles. But it’s not my fault – really! I found two different stories about ghosts and marbles when I was researching the universities. Ghosts and marbles! Whoever heard about that combination? Well, apparently, you are going…
OHIO UNIVERSITY, ATHENS OHIO
For the second in our burgeoning series of haunted universities, I chose Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. I had a nephew who attended Ohio U and he had stories about the weird things that happened there – and a few buildings he stayed away from. So, I thought it would be interesting to see what…