Monday, October 31, 2005

Its halloween! I love halloween, I love scary movies!
Lets play the Salem game!
In honour of the occasion, I'd like you - yes you that lurker in the corner there! To tell me your ghost stories, has anything creepy, unexplainable happened to you?
Do you believe in ghosts? Tell us all about it!
Go on! Go wild! And if nothing ghosty has happened to you, tell me your favourite horror movie, horror urban legend! Best Halloween costume!
Come on people, lets get in the spirit of this thing, I'll be very disappointed if no one plays!

4 comments:

HistoryGeek said...

I don't quite know the Salem Game...but I've had quite a few experiences of objects (like pictures) falling off walls when I've been doing group witchy-type activities. Once was with a Ouija board and we were just in high school. Another was quite recently, a couple of years ago. The Ouija board incident freaked me out the most because I was still "churched" (as it were) at the time.

My favorite ghost story comes from a friend who attended the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg. The Seminary is just on the edge of the battlefield and was headquarters for both sides at different times during that 3 day battle. One of the seminarians from my friend's year reported waking up in the middle of the night in his dorm, and seeing a man's torso (in Union uniform) floating in the corner. Then it disappeared.

I did once go down to the bathroom in the basement of a pub in Pennsylvania and heard laughter and felt "cold." No one else was there at the time...and I cut my visit short. That actually shook me up the most of any of the experiences or stories I've had.

HistoryGeek said...

Just an FYI about witchcraft history...Although Salem is perhaps most famous, especially due to certain recent films, very few witches were convicted and killed in the US comparative to Europe. And the preferred method of execution in the US tended to be hanging - not burning.

If you are ever in Edinburgh at the castle, there is a lovely memorial to those witches who were executed near that spot (it's small though and takes a bit to find, if you don't know where to look).

Alecya G said...

I'll Play!

I do believe in ghosts, or spirits, or whatever you want to call them. The area I live in has a lot of ghost storie/urban legends. Although I have never chased them down I have friends who have, but that redibility is always a little you know...

There is an old theater in our town that was the area's first movie theater, and it is supposed to be haunted. I used to do ballet and opera, and everyone was afraid to go up to the third floor, and in the boxes alone, because those were the spots that were haunted. I liked to go up there during rehearsals. There were a few times where it was really cold, and a few times I thought I saw people. But it may have been an overactive imagination, I was only 15 or so the last time I saw something there.

But I believe.

I WON'T do Ouija at all. I don't like not knowing who your calling up. Freaks me out.

Flash said...

I have never experienced anything remotely ghostly or unexplainable nor do I, as something of a sceptic, expect to.

However, my Dad says he saw the same ghost many times when he worked in a mental hospital, he spoke of the ghost as if it were an old friend that just pottered around the place, like nearly headless Nick in the Potty Harry films.