To: obiwan@ghosts.orgFrom: csinclair@snet.net “Corliss Sinclair”Date: 3/25/01Subject: Cat Tails [Tales…A ghost story]Location: Indeterminate This is an absolutely true story. This happened to me. It’s not really important that you don’t know who I am. All I can say is I am a single mom of a (now) nine-year old son. I …
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Re: Do you still collect stories?Date: 2020-07-26 06:57From: marthaj loss mjloss@att.netTo: obiwan@ghosts.org The following experience happened to me during the summer months of 2013 or 2014. It was a quiet Saturday afternoon as I worked in the genealogy and local history department of a large public library. I must first …
Dad’s Last Visit
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:21:41 -0700 (PDT)To: stories@ghosts.orgFrom: The Story Page stories@ghosts.orgSubject: Story Submission yourname: NytPhantmemail: NytPhantm@aol.com I get chills every time I re-tell this story. This experience occurred the night my father died. I was eight years old at the time and I lived in a one bedroom …
Get the books!
A couple years ago, the old software I was using to organize the stories became deprecated and stopped working. For the past few months, I’ve been working on restoring the stories to the website while also collecting the best of the stories into volumes I’m publishing on Amazon. Click here …
Wendigo (from ghosts.org archives)
According to A Dictionary of Ghost Lore by Peter Haining: The wendigo is a Canadian entity, half phantom, half beast, who lives in the forests and preys on human beings, particularly children. The belief in this horror dates back to the earliest Indian legends and it is said that the …
Abnauayu (Russian Bigfoot)
The Abnauayu is the Russian analog of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, said to roam the lands around the Caucasus mountain range. Like other potential relict hominid habitats, the Caucasus is heavily forested and sparsely populated in many areas, allowing plenty of room for both a large creature to roam and legends to grow. …
Huge Birds
Updating the True Ghost Stories Page recently, I once again came across several reports of huge birds that I received around 2006. It intrigued me enough to go searching for more information. I remember trying to research the phenomenon at the time I originally received the stories, and not finding …
Mapinguari
The Mapinguari is a cryptid said to roam the deep jungles of Brazil. It appears to originate from local tribal lore. Eyewitness reports, which derive almost exclusively from loggers and tribe members, describe the animal as significantly taller than a normal person, hairy, clawed, often aggressive, and possessing a foul …
Bear Lake Monster
The Bear Lake Monster is a snake-like creature said to inhabit Bear Lake in Utah. The legend of this particular lake monster appears to have originated in newspaper articles written by Joseph C. Rich for the Deseret News in 1868. His stories referred to Indian (Native American) mythology and, based …