Category: Freaky Friday

I want to thank plat00n from Reddit for giving me permission to share his story. I thought this was the perfect story to finish up our ghost stories of December. Three years before I was born, my mother and father had their first child. He lived for a mere seven minutes before his breathing stopped…

The holidays are a wonderful time to get together with family members and friends you haven’t seen for a while.  And in these stories, you’ll discover that something like being dead doesn’t always stop someone from visiting during the holidays. These next stories were taken from Reddit and are true stories. I hope you enjoy…

Everybody loves a good Christmas party, right?  (Okay, those of us who are introverts might not “love” them, but we can put up with them during this time of year.)  From Mr. Fezziwig’s Christmas Party in Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” to the party at the Bailey’s home to show George that indeed he had…

Victorian picture people frightened by a ghost

I was reminded on Monday by a dear friend, Terrie Snyder, that I hadn’t posted a Freaky Friday the previous Friday. I was gobsmacked! She was right. I totally forgot about Freaky Friday – and I offer you both an apology and an explanation. I learned several weeks ago that my dear daughter, Sarah, and…

I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a wonderful group of students, teachers, and administrators this week at the FOCUS House in Rochelle, Illinois.  During our time together, we started chatting about ghost stories (are you surprised?) and several young men shared stories about a ghost that haunts their residence hall. A ghost who…

When you’re driving at night and you’re only seventeen, lots of weird things can happen. But age has nothing to do with what happened to William Bartlett in 1977 when he was driving down the road and suddenly his car’s headlights reveal an enormous, alien-like monster with long spindly fingers. The creature was slowly crawling…

The new season of Expedition X has finally appeared on our Discovery + channel, so my husband and I are ready to binge-watch the scary and unexplained stories they have to share.  The first one really surprised me – I’d never heard of this before – so, I thought I’d do a little research and…

My older brother, Mike, served in Guam in the 1970s.  He was in the Navy, in Intelligence.  He once told me that there was one gate at the very end of the base, that was nearest to the jungle that no one wanted to guard, especially at night.  Even the locals stayed away from that…

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