The Campfire.

[Jamastiene]

<insert spooky sounds here along with a nice long wolf howl>

The general idea is to post links to cool ghost stories or spooky stories or general creepy stuff. I can't wait until Halloween. It's Friday the 13th. I'd like to celebrate it in some way. I'll kick it off. Join in anytime you are ready.

Anybody ever heard of "The Devil's Tramping Ground?"

Here is a link:
http://www.geocities.com/trampingground/

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. A classic.

The Monkey's Paw.

http://gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca/mnkyspaw.htm

[Jamastiene]

3. That's a good one. Thanks.

I'm just in the mood for these tonight.

[ghostsofgiants]

2. Neat idea. Try this: The Dionaea house

http://www.dionaea-house.com/

[Jamastiene]

5. I'll do that.

From what I have seen so far, it looks interesting.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. It's really cool.

It's all documented through things like email postings and blogs and stuff. Pretty crative, and pretty creepy.

[datasuspect]

4. the devil in NYC

http://www.forteantimes.com/happened/cedardevil.shtml

[Jamastiene]

7. Kickin' the coals. n/t

<Another wolf howls and the sound of rattling chains permeates the Lounge.>

[Jamastiene]

9. Let's start Halloween early.

:evilgrin:

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. The Belfast Irish linen mill ghost cam...

http://www.irelandseye.com/ghost/press/index.htm

This is a freaky site... not so much because of the ghost cam, but because of the recording of the voice of the girl that died that was found. It is very eerie sounding. It scared the heck out of my kids...more so than watching the cam.

[Jamastiene]

10. Kicking a can down a lonely street on the way home. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

11. The scariest ones to me

were the sasquatch/big foot stories...I'm from SE Alaska, and those stories...whew, always sent shivers down my spine...

[Jamastiene]

12. When they could actually be close to home and possibly real,

it adds an extra dimension to the scariness. I think a lot of times, some things may not be so scary to me because they might not affect me. Then I see movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or read ghost stories about mean people in my home county's past, and I actually have a degree of fear and jumpiness afterward. It's more real and more scary that way. Local ghost stories and legends would be a great thread idea. Maybe for Halloween, we could try one of those.

[Broken_Hero]

13. thats why the Blair Witch

got me...the look of the forest was almost like home, granted there were some differences, like tree's, and what not...but the night time effects/noises, whew...I saw the movie twice in the theater, and it got me both times...I was an avid camper the first 20yrs of life, and that movie freaked me...not all out freaked me, but everytime I went camping after seeing that movie, it played through the background screen in my mind....:)

[Jamastiene]

14. You know what is strange about that movie and my experience?

I saw "The Last Broadcast" before I saw "Blair Witch." I had heard of "Blair Witch" and I had never heard of "The Last Broadcast." I happened on a late night television vegetative state to flip past the beginning of "The Last Broadcast" one night about the time I heard of Blair Witch in theaters. I didn't know what "The Last Broadcast" was. I started watching because it was in documentary form about some young people who were going to the pine barrens in NJ to look for the Jersey Devil. I thought it was a real documentary.

I don't want to reveal the ending, but until I came back to the internet and looked up the info on that movie, I honestly thought it was a true story, real documentary. "Blair Witch," I knew was a movie beforehand, so it didn't affect me quite the same. "The Last Broadcast" though, IMHO was a better movie and had more of an effect on me. Anyone who liked "Blair Witch" would probably love "The Last Broadcast." It's a very interesting low budget movie in tape format. I was sort of in shock after seeing it, because I thought it was a real story. There are a lot of pines around here and I used to spend many fall nights in the woods playing in them. I know that is strange, but we have legends here too about a Devil's Tramping Ground and several other strange ghost type legends. Watching "The Last Broadcast" made me really stop and think.

[Broken_Hero]

15. I will check it out

my favorite kind of horror/thriller flicks are ones that could actually happen...most of the demon/devil horror flicks are laughable to me...I thought most of the the Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm St's were hiliarous...and movies like Wrong Turn are just gratuitous blood fests...

[Jamastiene]

16. I'm right there with you on that.

When I was a little kid, those movies were scary, but even then only mildy scary while I was watching the movie. Afterward, we'd all imitate Freddy Krueger and laugh about it. They were only scary when you wanted the character to survive and you jumped a little when they didn't. I'll never forget though, the first time I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. That was the one with the girl in the radio station. I saw it before I saw the first one. That one affected me pretty badly.

[Broken_Hero]

17. first one that got me was Jaws...

The ocean was a literally, a huge part of my life growing up. I was born/raised on an island in SE Alaska...boating, swimming, fishing...those are ways of life...and when I saw Jaws...it changed me, forever...to this day, I cannot swim in the ocean, without Jaws playing vividly in my mind. When I went to S. Cal in 96, I went to Long Beach, and my buddy was way the hell out here body surfing, and yelling at me to come join him...and I was like...HELL NO....I waded out there, until the water came right underneath my knee, and there I stood...there was NO way I was going to become Jaw's lunch...

on edit:spelling/grammar, its late, sue me.