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DEAD WOMAN STRIKES BACK
BACK IN THE DAYS BEFORE FUNERAL HOMES, WHEN THE BODY
WAS LAID OUT AT HOME, IT WAS THE CUSTOM TO HAVE
SOMEONE SIT UP IN THE ROOM WITH THE BODY DURING THE
NIGHT. ONE NIGHT, MY FATHER WAS SITTING UP WITH A
BODY; HIS CHAIR ABOUT TWO FEET FROM THE CASKET,
AND HIS BACK TO THE CASKET. HE LEANED THE CHAIR
BACKWARDS (WHILE SITTING IN IT) AND BUMPED THE
CASKET. WHEN HE DID THIS, THE DEAD WOMAN'S ARM
FLUNG OUT AND HIT HIM ON THE BACK OF THE NECK.
HE JUMPED OUT OF HIS CHAIR AND RAN OUT OF THE HOUSE
AND WOULDN'T GO NEAR THE PLACE UNTIL AFTER THE
FUNERAL.
Submitter comment: TOLD TO HER BY HER MOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00001964 SUMMER
AT THE AGE OF 3, JAMES, DOYLE'S FATHER DIED.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, HIS MOTHER HAD TO WORK. LEAVING
HER SON AT HOME IN A CRIB, SHE WOULD HAVE A
NEIGHBOR FREQUENTLY CHECK IN ON HIM. ONE DAY AS
HE WAS IN HIS CRIB, THE SMILING FACE OF HIS FATHER
APPEARED TO HIM IN THE CORNER OF HIS ROOM. SEEING
HIS FATHER, HE WHISPERED, "DADDY." THE FACE SHOOK
ITS HEAD YES AND THEN DISAPPEARED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-06-1968
A WOMAN'S HUSBAND PASSED AWAY, BUT AT THE TIME OF HIS
DEATH (4 P.M.) HE TOLD HIS WIFE THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS
BE WITH HER. THE DAY AFTER HE DIED AT APPROXIMATELY
4 P.M. A LITTLE YELLOW BIRD APPEARED ON THE WINDOW
LEDGE IN HER ROOM AND TAPPED HIS BEAK AGAINST IT,
THEN WOULD FLY AWAY. THIS WENT ON FOR 36 DAYS UNTIL
THE WIFE HAD BEEN STRUCK AND KILLED BY A CAR.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-12-1968
DEATH HITCHED A RIDE
A TRUCKER WAS DRIVING THROUGH THE SMOKEY MOUNTAINS
PULLING A LARGE SEMI-TRUCK-TRAILER ONE NIGHT. SUDDENLY
THE TRUCKER HAD A STRANGE FEELING THAT HE WAS NOT
ALONE. LOOKING OVER ON THE PASSENGER SIDE, HE SAW
A CHARACTER IN A DARK COAT, COLLAR PULLED UP, AND
A DARK HAT PULLED DOWN OVER HIS BROW. WHEN THE
TRUCKER BRAKED AND CALLED OUT "WHAT IN THE HELL ARE
YOU DOING HERE," THE FIGURE OPENED THE DOOR AND
LEAPED OUT, APPARENTLY TUMBLING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE.
THE TRUCKER CALLED THE STATE POLICE, BUT THEY SEARCHED
FOR THE BODY IN VAIN.
ON THE RETURN TRIP THE TRUCKER'S RIG JACKKNIFED AT THE
VERY SPOT AT WHICH THE FIGURE HAD EARLIER LEAPED DOWN
TO HIS FATE.
THE FIGURE, ACCORDING TO THE LEGEND, HAD BEEN DEATH
HIMSELF.
Submitter comment: DON'T KNOW WHERE INFORMANT HEARD THIS ONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-23-1965
THE HEADLESS SWITCHER
DURING THE CIVIL WAR A SWITCHER IN MANTEO, NORTH
CAROLINA WAS WAVING DOWN A TRAIN WITH A LANTERN, BUT
THE TRAIN FAILED TO STOP AND THE SWITCHER WAS CUT DOWN
AND DECAPITATED. HIS HEAD WAS NEVER FOUND.
TWENTY YEARS LATER, RESIDENTS OF THE AREA AND
PASSENGERS ON THE RAILROAD LINE BEGAN REPORTING
THEIR SEEING A LANTERN WAVING ALONG THE LINE AROUND
ABOUT MANTEO. CLOSER SURVEILLANCE, THEY SAID, SHOWED
THAT THE LANTERN WAS BEING WAVED BACK AND FORTH BY
THE HEADLESS SWITCHER.
THE LEGEND THAT GREW FROM THESE REPORTS HAD IT THAT
THE SWITCHER WAS SEARCHING FOR HIS HEAD.
A PRIEST WAS CALLED IN FROM WILMINGTON TO EXORCISE
THE SWITCHER'S GRAVE, BUT THE EFFORT WAS FRUITLESS,
BECAUSE THE SWITCHER WAS NOT AN EVIL SPIRIT.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD TALE WHILE A STUDENT AT BELMONT
ABBEY COLLEGE, NORTH CAROLINA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; NORTH CAROLINA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-23-1965
SUPERSTITION
ON A SPECIFIC STREET IN DETROIT {MICHIGAN} IT IS
BELIEVED THAT A LITTLE GIRL WAS ONCE HIT BY A CAR
COMING HOME FROM SCHOOL, AND NOW HER SPIRIT REMAINS
THERE AND KNOCKS ON CARS AFTER DARKNESS, WHEN THEY
PASS OVER THIS STREET.
Submitter comment: HEARD MANY TIMES FROM FRIENDS FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1960
WHEN NANCY WAS FOUR YEARS OLD, SHE AWOKE IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE NIGHT TO SEE A TALL, STRANGE MAN STANDING BY
HER BED. FRIGHTENED AT FIRST, SHE LOST HER FEAR WHEN
HE GENTLY ASKED, "NANCY, HAVE YOU BEEN A GOOD GIRL?"
WHEN SHE SAID SHE HAD, HE WENT AWAY. ONE WEEK LATER,
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO HER SISTER AGNES, WHO
WAS SEVERAL YEARS OLDER. THE MORNING AFTER THESE
INCIDENTS, THE DOORS WERE FOUND UNLOCKED, BUT
NOTHING ELSE IN THE HOUSE DISTURBED.
Submitter comment:
I REMEMBER THE MOTHER OF THESE GIRLS TELLING MY
FAMILY ABOUT THE INCIDENT. SHE FELT THE MAN WAS A
WOULD-BE ROBBER WHO CHANGED HEART WHEN HE SAW THE
LITTLE GIRL'S FRIGHTENED FACES, BUT SHE DIDN'T
KNOW HOW HE KNEW THEIR NAMES.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
DEATH NOTICE
FR. BORUCKI TOLD ME OF HIS MOTHER TELLING HIM THAT A
FEW WEEKS AGO, SHE WAS AWAKENED ON SUNDAY MORNING,
AROUND 6:00 A.M. BY SOMEONE KNOCKING ON THE FRONT
DOOR. SHE WENT TO OPEN IT, BUT FOUND NO ONE THERE.
SHE RETURNED TO HER ROOM AND HEARD SOME ONE RAP
THREE TIMES ON HER WINDOW. SHE LOOKED OUT, BUT SAW
NOTHING. SHE AWOKE THE LADY SHE LIVES WITH AND TOLD
HER ABOUT THE KNOCKING. BOTH WOMEN DECIDED SOMEONE
HAD DIED AND HAD COME TO TELL THEM ABOUT IT. ON THEIR
WAY TO CHURCH LATER THAT MORNING, THEY MET A NEIGHBOR
WHO TOLD THEM A MAN, DOWN THE STREET, HAD DIED AROUND
3:00 A.M. THAT MORNING. BOTH WOMEN WERE THEN SURE
IT WAS HE WHO HAD COME TO TELL THEM OF HIS DEATH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-30-1968
VANISHING ACCIDENT VICTIM
AS A CERTAIN YOUNG MAN WAS DRIVING DOWN A COUNTRY ROAD
AT NIGHT, HE SAW A YOUNG WOMAN LYING ON THE ROAD, AS
IF SHE HAD BEEN HIT BY A CAR. HE STOPPED THE CAR,
JUMPED OUT AND FOUND THE GIRL BADLY HURT. HE CARRIED
HER INTO THE CAR AND GAVE HER HIS HANDKERCHIEF TO
WIPE THE BLOOD OFF HER FACE. HE WAS ABOUT TO DRIVE OFF
WITH HER, FOR HELP, WHEN HE SAW A SMALL HOUSE DOWN THE
ROAD. HE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND RAN TO THE HOUSE.
FRANTICALLY, HE TOLD THE MAN AND WOMAN INSIDE ABOUT
THE BADLY INJURED GIRL IN HIS CAR. THE COUPLE ONLY
LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND SAID NOTHING AND MAKE NO
OFFER OF HELP. ANGERED, THE YOUNG MAN RAN OUT TO
BRING THE GIRL IN, THINKING THE COUPLE DON'T BELIEVE
HIM. HE RETURNED TO THE CAR AND FOUND IT EMPTY. HIS
HANDKERCHIEF IS ON THE SEAT, UNFOLDED BUT CLEAN.
STUNNED, HE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE WHERE THE COUPLE
EXPLAIN THEIR APPARENT LACK OF INTEREST. YEARS AGO,
THEIR DAUGHTER WAS HIT BY A TRUCK ON THE ROAD AS
SHE WALKED. SHE DRAGGED HERSELF ALONG THE ROAD, HOPING
TO REACH HOME. NOW EVERY SO OFTEN, SHE APPEARS TO
PEOPLE SO SHE COULD GET HELP AND REACH HER HOME,
WHICH SHE DIDN'T REACH BEFORE SHE DIED. EACH TIME SHE
GETS CLOSER TO HER HOME. SHE HAD ALMOST MADE IT
THIS TIME, WHEN THE YOUNG MAN FOUND HER. HER PARENTS
HOPE ONE DAY SHE WILL REACH HOME.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 02-04-1968
LADY IN WHITE
WHEN PENNY WAS A YOUNG CHILD, SHE WALED DOWN A
ROAD PAST A HOUSE WHERE A MEAN OLD WOMAN WAS PREVIOUSLY
RUN OUT OF TOWN. AS SHE PASSED THE HOUSE, SHE SAW A
WOMAN WITH AN EXPRESSIONLESS FACE, DRESSED ENTIRELY
IN WHITE, WHO WAS SIGNALING FOR PENNY TO COME TO HER.
SHE DIDN'T GO TO THE WOMAN, BUT RAN DIRECTLY HOME.
HER MOTHER TOLD HER THE WOMAN OFTEN APPEARED TO
PEOPLE BECAUSE SHE WAS STILL ANGRY.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
TRAIN STORY
IN THE EASTERN PART OF POLAND, A MAN WAS TRYING TO
CATCH A TRAIN. THE TRAIN WAS PULLING OUT OF THE
STATION AND HE RAN AFTER IT. HE CAUGHT ON WITH ONE
HAND, BUT WAS UNABLE TO PULL HIMSELF ON TO THE
BACK OF THE TRAIN. THE TRAIN WAS GATHERING SPEED
AND HE SHOUTED FOR HELP. A BOY CAME OUT OF THE CAR
AND HELPED HIM UP, THEN WENT BACK INSIDE (OR,
DISAPPEARED). WHEN THE MAN LOOKED FOR HIM TO THANK
HIM, HE COULDN'T FIND HIM. NOR HAD ANYONE ON THE
TRAIN SEEN HIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-00-1968
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO HAUNTED HER HOUSE
PENNY LIVED ABOVE HER FATHER'S PUB IN ENGLAND (LONDON).
SHE CLAIMS THAT ON QUIET NIGHTS SHE AND HER FAMILY
OFTEN HEAR SOMEONE RUNNING DOWN THE HALL. THEY
HAVE LEARNED THAT ABOUT 100 YEARS AGO, A LITTLE GIRL
WAS MURDERED IN THE PUB. THE STEPS ARE SUPPOSEDLY
THE LITTLE GIRL'S GHOST.
Where learned: HOME ; ENGLAND ; LONDON
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-07-1968
THE GHOST WHO WANTED THE HOUSE
HOPE TOLD ME OF A GHOST WHICH LIVED IN HER HOUSE WHEN
SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL. IT WAS THE SPIRIT OF A MAN
WHO DIED IN THE HOUSE WHEN HIS SON WAS A LITTLE BOY.
WHEN HOPE AND HER FAMILY MOVED IN, THE GHOST WOULD
MAKE A LOT OF NOISE AND WALK AROUND THE HOUSE. HE
WOULD NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO GO INTO THE ATTIC WHERE HIS
CHILD USED TO PLAY. HE WANTED THE FAMILY OF HOPE TO
MOVE OUT OF THE HOUSE, BECAUSE HE WANTED TO BE LEFT
ALONE WITH THE MEMORY OF HIS FAMILY AND THE LITTLE BOY.
HE RAN PAST HER MOTHER ONCE WHEN THE PAPER WAS
DELIVERED, LIKE HE HAD PROBABLY DONE IN THE YEARS
BEFORE. HE RAN UP TO THE THIRD FLOOR, SLAMMED THE
DOOR, AND LOCKED IT, WHILE HOPE'S WHOLE FAMILY
WAS DOWN STAIRS, SO NO ONE COULD HAVE BEEN UPSTAIRS
TO DO IT. THIS WAS ONE EXAMPLE SHE GAVE ME ABOUT
THE PRESENCE OF THE GHOST.
Submitter comment:
HOPE TOLD ME THIS ONE NIGHT AFTER WE HAD FINISHED
READING AN ARTICLE ON GHOSTS AND SPIRITS IN PEOPLE'S
HOUSES.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
EVERY YEAR ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF LINDA'S GRANDMOTHER'S
DEATH, IN THE HOUSE THEY ALWAYS HEAR HER WALKING
AROUND THE HOUSE AT THE EXACT SAME HOUR EVERY YEAR.
SHE HAS BEEN COMING BACK FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS NOW,
AND THE LADY ALWAYS WALKS AROUND THE ROOM WHERE
SHE DIED.
Submitter comment:
LINDA AND HER MOTHER TOLD ME THIS ONE NIGHT WHEN WE
STARTED TALKING ABOUT GHOSTS AND SPIRITS IN PEOPLE'S
HOUSES.
Where learned: HOME ; 2 YEARS AGO
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
MY MOTHER TOLD ME THAT EVERY SO OFTEN SHE FEELS
THE PRESENCE OF MY FATHER IN THE HOUSE SITTING IN
HIS BLUE CHAIR READING THE PAPER, LIKE HE USED
TO DO WHEN HE CAME HOME FROM WORK. SHE CAN HEAR
THE PAGES RUSTLE AS HE TURNS THEM.
Submitter comment:
THE HUSBAND WILL ALWAYS STAY BY HIS WIFE.
MY MOTHER TOLD ME THIS WHEN I ASKED HER IF SHE
EVERY NOW AND THEN HEARD ANY WORD FROM MY FATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-01-1969
THIS WAS STATED AS A FACT BY MY INFORMANT WHILE WE
WERE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. "YOU CAN'T
PHOTOGRAPH A GHOST, IT JUST WON'T COME OUT."
Submitter comment: SHE WAS DEAD SERIOUS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
HIGH SCHOOL SUPERSTITION
MOTHER MARY ROSE, FOUNDRESS OF AN ORDER OF NUNS WHO
ESTABLISHED ST. MARY'S ACADEMY IN WINDSOR {CANADA},
IS ALLEDGEDLY BURIED BENEATH THE FLOORBOARDS ON
THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE ACADEMY. UNBELIEVERS SAY THAT
THE FLOOR BOARDS SWELL WITH THE WEATHER, NOT THE
FORCE OF MOTHER MARY TRYING TO GET OUT. ON OCTOBER 12,
THE ANNIVERSARY OF HER DEATH, MOTHER MARY IS SUPPOSED
TO WALK THE HALLS, AND THERE ARE REPORTS OF HER
VISITING THE ROOM OF A BOARDING STUDENT WHO WAS
SUREPTICIOUSLY READING OBSCENE LITERATURE AND
CONFISCATING THE BOOK. THERE ARE NUMEROUS REPORTS
OF GHOSTLY WHITE SHADOWS FLOATING THROUGH THE
DORMITORIES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
AT THE FUNERAL HOME I HEARD ABOUT A MAN WHO HAD DIED;
A FEW DAYS AFTER HIS FUNERAL HIS WIFE HEARD THE
DOORBELL RING AND WENT TO ANSWER IT. ON THE SNOW-
COVERED GROUND SHE SAW FOOTPRINTS LEADING UP TO THE
DOOR, BUT NO ONE WAS THERE AND THERE WERE NO
FOOTPRINTS LEADING AWAY FROM THE DOOR.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
GHOSTS
ONE TIME, AT NIGHT, IN THE HILLS SURROUNDING CENTER
RIDGE, ARKANSAS, MY GRANDFATHER WAS OPOSSUM HUNTING.
HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A FRIEND AND HIS HUNTING DOG
WHEN HE SAW A WHITE FIGURE WALKING THROUGH THE BRUSH.
THE FIGURE WAS A GLOWING WHITE. THE DOG ALSO SAW
THE "GHOST" AND STARTED AFTER IT. MY GRANDFATHER'S
FRIEND DID NOT SEE THE GHOST SINCE HE WAS NOT LOOKING
IN THAT DIRECTION. THE FRIEND DID NOT BELIEVE THE
TALE. HOWEVER, MY GRANDFATHER LEARNED LATER THAT
HE WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO SEE THE GHOST. OTHERS
HAD SPOTTED THE FIGURE IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA
ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Arkansas ; CENTER RIDGE ; Mount Clemens
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-30-1968
HAUNTED FOREST
I HAD A DISTANT COUSIN THAT LIVED IN THE OLD COUNTRY,
SICILY. HE WOULD GO UP IN THE FOREST ON THE
MOUNTAIN TO STEEL WOOD FOR HIS HOME. ONE NIGHT
AS HE WAS COMING BACK FROM STEELING WOOD, HE HAD
A MULE PULLING HIS CART FULL OF WOOD, HE SAW TWO
WHITE EYES STARING AT HIM FROM THE TIPS OF THE MULE'S
EARS. HE WAS TOO SCARED TO DO ANYTHING AND AFTER
A WHILE THEY WENT AWAY. HE KEPT GOING AND CAME TO
THIS SMALL BRIDGE. AS HE CAME TO THE BRIDGE, HE SAW
A WOLF SITTING UNDER THE BRIDGE STARING AT HIM WITH
THE SAME WHITE EYES THAT HE SAW ON HIS MULE'S EARS.
FROM THEN ON HE NEVER STOLE ANY MORE WOOD FROM
THAT FOREST.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S SPELLING CORRECTED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; SICILY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-08-1968