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GREEK GHOSTS
BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF GRAVES THAT ARE IN GREECE,
ESPECIALY THOSE OF SOLDIERS, THE GREEKS BELIEVE
THAT THEY CAN HEAR THE CRYING OF THE SOLDIERS IN THE
WIND AT NIGHT.
Submitter comment: JAMES LEARNED THIS FROM HIS GRANDFATHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOSTLY NOISES
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- P535 |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
THE PHANTOM PLEDGE
ONCE THERE WAS A PLEDGE WHO WASN'T VERY A GOOD PLEDGE.
SHE DIDN'T DO EVERYTHING A PLEDGE SHOULD DO.
FRIDAY OF HELL-WEED-END, SHE WAS AT HOME WAITING
FOR A MEMBER TO PICK HER UP. BUT NO ONE EVER CAME.
SHE WAITED AND WAITED, BUT NEVER GOT TO GO TO
HELL-WEEK-END. SHE HASN'T BEEN SEEN SINCE. BUT
EVERY SEMESTER AT HELL-WEEK-END, SHE COMES AND
STANDS ON A HILL AND CRIES AND MOANS THAT SHE NEVER
HAD A HELL-WEKK-END. DO YOU THINK YOU WILL GET
PICKED UP? OR WILL THERE BE ANOTHER PHANTOM PLEDGE?
Submitter comment:
THIS IS TOLD TO THE PLEDGES OF KAPPA BETA GAMMA
SORORITY BEFORE THEY GO UP TO HELL-WEEK-END.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOSTLY NOISES
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-30-1969
WHITE LADY
AT BELLE ISLE {DETROIT, MICHIGAN} AT THE LOVER'S LANE,
THERE IS SAID TO BE A "WHITE LADY." SHE COMES OUT
DRESSED COMPLETELY IN WHITE. SHE TERRORIZES THE
PEOPLE THERE AT NIGHT. SHE IS SAID TO HAVE A HOOK
FOR ONE HAND. ONE NIGHT A COUPLE WAS JUST LEAVING
WHEN SHE CAME OUT. LATER ON THAT NIGHT, THEY FOUND
A HOOK ON THE CAR. IT WAS ON THE DOOR HANDLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): GHOST WITH HOOK FOR HAND
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-00-1965
LORELEI {WATER NYMPH} SITTING PRETTY
THE LORELEI IS A CLIFF OVERLOOKING THE RHINE.
THERE IS A LEGEND THAT A BEAUTIFUL GIRL SITS THERE
COMBING HER SHINING HAIR WITH A GOLDEN COMB, WHILE
SINGING A BEAUTIFUL SONG. THE SOUND OF HER SONG
WOULD BE CARRIED OVER THE WAVES, LURING SHIPS AND
SAILORS TO THEIR DESTINY--SHIPWRECKED AT HER FEET
ON THE ROCKS.
Submitter comment:
LEARNED IN GERMANY, IN SCHOOL, WHEN SHE WAS VERY
YOUNG.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GERMANY ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
THE LORELEI'S SONG {WATER NYMPH}
THERE IS A LEGEND THAT A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN USED TO SIT
ON THE ROCK OF LORELEI, SMILING AT A PASSING BOATMAN.
HE COULDN'T TAKE HIS EYES OFF HER AND HE CRASHED
AGAINST THE ROCKS.
Submitter comment: HEARD IN THE MOVIE, "FRAULEIN."
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; FRAULEIN ; MOVIE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 08-08-1964
THE SONG OF THE LORELEI {WATER NYMPH}
THERE IS A TALL, BEAUTIFUL CLIFF ON THE RHINE RIVER.
WHEN THE WIND HITS THE SIDE, IT MAKES A SOUND LIKE
SOMEONE SINGING. SAILORS, LOOKING FOR THE SINGER,
WOULD CRASH INTO THE ROCKS.
Submitter comment:
SAW THE CLIFF AND HEARD THE STORY WHILE ON A TOUR
OF EUROPE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; EUROPE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 08-08-1964
A STORY IS TOLD ABOUT A SMALL CHILD BEING HIT BY A
CAR ON TUESDAY NIGHT. THE DRIVER DID NOT STOP,
BUT KEPT ON GOING. AS A REVENGE FOR THIS GIRL'S
DEATH, WHENEVER A CAR DRIVES DOWN THIS STREET IN
DETROIT {MICHIGAN}, AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME ON
TUESDAY, A THUD IS HEARD TWICE ON THE FENDER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
LEGEND OF THE BELLE ISLE GHOST
ONCE THERE WAS A LADY WHO WAS TAKING HER DOG FOR A
WALK ON BELLE ISLE. WHILE SHE WASN'T WATCHING HIM,
THE DOG RAN AWAY AND WAS DROWNED IN THE WATER. THE
LADY TRIED TO SAVE HIM AND WAS DROWNED HERSELF.
NOW, SOMETIMES AT MIDNIGHT, A LADY IS SEEN HOLDING
AN EMPTY DOG LEASH AND CALLING FOR HER DOG WHO
WAS DROWNED SO MANY YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; BELLE ISLE
Keyword(s): ANIMALS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 06-00-1970
BELIEF ABOUT A GHOST
MY MOTHER WAS VERY ILL. BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THE
ILLNESS, HER BED WAS PLACED IN THE PARLOR. SOMEBODY
USUALLY SAT WITH HER AT ALL TIMES. THERE WAS A
PIANO IN THE PARLOR. ALL OF A SUDDEN A NOISE CAME FROM
THE PIANO, AS IF A KEY WAS BEING STRUCK.
THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE ROOM AT THE TIME.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID THAT THIS INCIDENT MADE SUCH AN IMPRESSION
UPON HIM AS A CHILD, THAT HE HAS NEVER FORGOTTEN IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HARPER WOODS
Keyword(s): SICKROOM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-23-1970
GHOSTS
IN A NEARBY TOWN IN MALTA, THERE WAS ONCE A CHAPEL WHERE
A PRIEST COMMITTED SUICIDE. EVERY YEAR ON THE ANNIVER-
SARY OF HIS DEATH, PEOPLE CLAIMED THEY HEARD BELLS TOLL
AND THE PRIEST APPEARED TO SAY MASS AND THEN WOULD
DISAPPEAR. HE KEPT APPEARING EVERY YEAR BECAUSE
PEOPLE HAD GIVEN HIM MONEY IN ORDER TO SAY MASSES.
HE WOULD KEEP REAPPEARING YEARLY UNTIL ALL THE MASSES
WERE SAID.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; MALTA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-08-1970
GHOSTS
IN THIS SMALL OHIO FARMING TOWN, THERE IS THE LEGEND THAT
ONE NIGHT AT SUNDOWN, A MAN WAS OUT IN HIS FIELD PICKING
UP THE DEBRIS FROM A FENCE HE HAD JUST PUT UP. HE SAW
HIS COUSIN COMING WHOM HE RECOGNIZED BECAUSE OF THE
BOOTS HE HAD ON AND THE LANTERN HE WAS CARRYING. HE
SAID HELLO TO HIM AND HIS COUSIN MERELY NODDED AND
KEPT GOING. THE FIRST MAN THEN WENT HOME AND HIS
MOTHER TOLD HIM SHE WAS GOING TO HIS COUSIN'S BECAUSE
HE HAD JUST DIED. THE MAN EXCLAIMED IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE
BECAUSE HE HAD JUST SEEN HIM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-20-1968
ONCE AGAIN, WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD, I WAS OUT WALKING
ONE DAY. I HAD A NEW DRESS ON, AND I FELT PROUD. I
LOOKED AT MYSELF, BECAUSE WE ONLY GOT A NEW DRESS EVERY
2 OR 3 YEARS. I WAS SITTING IN CHURCH THAT SAME DAY
AND MY MOTHER HOLLERED AT ME, WHEN I STARTED LOOKING
AT MYSELF. WHEN WE WENT HOME, MOTHER SAID, "WHAT
DID YOU HAVE, YOU WERE WALTZING AROUND." I SAID,
"NO, I WASN'T." MOTHER SAID, "YOU WERE ADMIRING
YOURSELF." I SAID THAT I WAS SEEING IF MY DRESS WAS
STRAIGHT IN THE BACK. I GOT SICK THAT NIGHT. MOTHER
SAID IT WAS THE EVIL EYES BECAUSE I WAS SHOWING OFF.
AN OLD LADY SAID PRAYERS OVER ME AND I GOT BETTER.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT IS UNSURE AS TO WHETHER THIS IS REALLY TRUE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALLEN PARK
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Body part Senses |
Date learned: 02-06-1972
MY FAMILY IS FROM THE SOUTH, ONCE I REMEMBERED MY UNCLE
TELLING ME, AS HE WAS WALKING DOWN THE ROAD, ON HIS
WAY HOME, HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOK{ED} IN BACK OF
HIM AND HE SAW A DOG. EVERYTIME HE TURNED AROUND, THE
DOG GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER. MY UNCLE SAID HE TOOK
OFF RUNNING.
Submitter comment: THIS DOG WAS A HANK AND HANKS ARE GHOSTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE RAILROAD CROSSING
A FEW YEARS AGO, MY HUSBAND WAS HITCHHIKING HOME FROM
DOWN SOUTH. HE WAS IN KENTUCKY AT THE TIME. HE WAS
WALKING OVER A RAILROAD TRACK. AS HE GOT TO THE OTHER
SIDE, HE HEARD A TRAIN COME BY. HE TURNED TO LOOK, AND
HERE WAS A MAN STANDING ON THE TRACK. THE TRAIN CAME BY
AND KNOCKED HIM DOWN. IT KILLED HIM. JACK (HER HUSBAND)
RAN INTO THE TOWN TO GET HELP. HE WENT AND TOLD THE
SHERIFF WHAT HAD HAPPENED. HE WOULDN'T GO BACK TO LOOK.
HE ONLY LAUGHED AT JACK SAYING THIS HAPPENS EVERY YEAR
AT THIS TIME. YOU SEE, THE MAN GOT HIT BY THAT TRAIN
YEARS AGO, AND EVERY YEAR SINCE THEN, AT THE EXACT
TIME IT HAPPENED, IT HAPPENS ONCE AGAIN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 06-30-1964
GHOST STORY OF BONITSIA, GREECE
THERE WAS AN EVIL OLD WOMAN LIVING IN THIS TOWN. SHE
WAS A RECLUSE, EXCEPT FOR HER DAUGHTER WHO LIVED AND
TOOK CARE OF HER. THE OLD WOMAN WAS VERY JEALOUS OF
ANYBODY WHO EVEN DREAMED OF TAKING THE GIRL AWAY.
THERE WAS A BOY IN THIS TOWN WHO MANAGED TO TAKE THE
GIRL AWAY. HE WAS VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH HER AND
PERSUADED HER TO LEAVE HER MOTHER AND TO GO LIVE WITH
HIM AND HIS FAMILY. EVENTUALLY, THE OLD WOMAN DIED
AND ALL WAS FORGOTTEN.
ONE WINTER, WHEN THE HUSBAND WAS ALONE, HE HEARD A KNOCK
ON THE DOOR, BUT WHEN HE OPENED THE DOOR ONLY THE WIND
WAS THERE. HE THEN HEARD A TAPPING ON THE WINDOW AND
THERE AT THE WINDOW, HE COULD SEE A WHITE FACE IN A
BLACK SHROUD CURSING HIM. THIS WAS, OF COURSE, THE
DEAD MOTHER. THE MAN CALLED OUT THE SOLDIERS AND THEY
SAW THE APPARITION AND SHOT IT. NEXT DAY, THEY COULD SEE
BLOOD STAINS ON THE GROUND. IN BONASTIA, TODAY, THE
CURSE OF THE OLD WOMAN CAN BE HEARD IN THE WIND ON
COLD WINTER NIGHTS.
Submitter comment: JAMES'S GRANDFATHER TOLD HIM THIS STORY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; GREECE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 10-10-1967
THE LEGEND OF ZAMORA
AN OLD POLISH LEGEND HAS IT THAT WHEN A PERSON IS GOING
TO BED, HIS SHOES SHOULD BE PLACED IN A POSITION SO THAT
THE TOES OF THE SHOES SHOULD BE POINTED TOWARDS THE MIDDLE
OF THE BED. IF YOU DO THIS, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN COMES
INTO YOUR ROOM WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING AND ACTUALLY GETS
INTO BED WITH YOU AND STARTS TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU. IN
REALITY, HOWEVER, SHE IS A WITCH AND NOT A BEAUTIFUL
WOMAN. SHE IS AN OLD WOMAN FROM YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE
POINT OF THE LEGEND IS THAT YOU SHOULD NOT POINT YOUR
TOES OF YOUR SHOES TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE BED, AND IF
YOU DO THIS, YOU WILL SLEEP IN PEACE.
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE NEIGH-
BORHOOD OF THIRTY-SECOND STREET AND BUCHANAN RIGHT HERE
IN DETROIT {MICHIGAN}. A PRIEST HAS CLAIMED THAT HE
STAYED UP ONE NIGHT AND ACTUALLY SAW THE WITCH ENTER
INTO SOMEONE'S ROOM. THE PRIEST IS FROM ST. FRANCIS
PARISH AND HE CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN THIS SIGHT SOME
THIRTY OR FORTY YEARS AGO.
MR. SOSNOWSKI SAID THAT HE HEARD THAT THIS STORY HAPPENED
MANY TIMES IN POLAND TO HIS GREAT-GRANDFATHER AND THAT HE
EVENTUALLY WENT INSANE FROM ITS EFFECTS. HE ALSO CLAIMS
THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER KNEW OF THE PRIEST WHO ACTUALLY SAW
ZAMORA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-00-1963
LITHUANIAN GHOST STORY
THIS STORY WAS RELATED TO MY GRANDMOTHER BY MY GREAT UNCLE
MICHOLAS TAUJANSKAS WHO EXPERIENCED THIS TALE IN
APPROXIMATELY 1914 AS A SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD YOUTH. HE
WAS AN ORGANIST AT THE LOCAL VILLAGE PARISH.
A PASTOR'S YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER HAD STRANGLED (BY DRINKING
SOME SULFURIC ACID) HER CHILD AND HAD COMMITTED SUICIDE.
THEY BURIED HER BUT THAT WAS NOT THE END. AS SOON AS
THE PRIEST PUT OUT THE LIGHT FOR THE NIGHT AND SAT DOWN
BY HIS STOVE TO WARM HIMSELF IN THE WINTER TIME HE
WOULD BE PULLED AROUND THE ROOM IN HIS CHAIR. IF HE LAY
DOWN IN BED, HE WOULD {BE} PUSHED OUT OF BED, AND THE
WHOLE ROOM WOULD BE COMPLETELY OVERTURNED. BUT IF A CANDLE
OR LIGHT WAS LIT, THE SPIRIT DISAPPEARED. THE SPIRIT ALSO
LEFT AT THE MIDNIGHT, JUST BEFORE THE FIRST COCK'S
CROW. THE PRIEST TRIED EVERY METHOD KNOWN TO THE CATHOLIC
RELIGION TO EXORCISE THE SPIRIT OUT OF THE ROOM, BUT EVERY-
THING FAILED. THIS LASTED THREE OR FOUR YEARS, AND AS
A RESULT, THE FIRST PRIEST LEFT THE PARISH AND A SECOND
YOUNG PRIEST DIED OF FRIGHT. A THIRD PRIEST CAME AND
DURING HIS TENURE SOME PEOPLE WERE BURYING A PERSON NEXT
TO THE HOUSEKEEPER AND NOTICED A TUNNEL LEAVING THROUGH
THE CASKET AND GOING TO THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND. SO
THE CASKET WAS DUG UP AND UNCOVERED. THE HOUSEKEEPER
WAS TURNED ON HER SIDE AND HER CLOTHES WERE ALL RUMPLED.
SO THE PRIEST SUGGESTED THAT THE HEAD OF THE HOUSEKEEPER
BE CUT OFF AND PLACED BETWEEN HER LEGS. THIS WAS DONE
AND THE STRANGE HAPPENINGS STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. THE
PURPOSE OF THE BEHEADING WAS SO THE GHOST COULD NOT
REACH ITS HEAD AND THUS ESCAPE THROUGH THE TUNNEL.
Submitter comment:
THE PERSON RELATING THIS STORY ACTUALLY BELIEVED IT.
INFORMANT VISITING UNITED STATES FROM LITHUANIA FOR
APPROXIMATELY SIX MONTHS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; LITHUANIA
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-18-1968 ; 00-00-1914
NACKEN
NAKEN IS A MALE BEING. HE IS ALMOST ALWAYS NAKED AND
HE SITS IN THE MIDDLE OF A STREAM OR IN A BIG LAKE
PLAYING A VIOLIN OR A HARP AND TRYING TO ENTICE PEOPLE
WOMEN MOSTLY, DOWN IN THE WATER. SOMETIMES HE IS
SAID TO BE EVIL, SOMETIMES ONLY A LONELY AND UNBLESSED
SPIRITUAL BEING.
Where learned: SWEDEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Supernatural Being PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-21-1968
CHOPPING WOOD
DURING THE EARLY 1800S, IT WAS THE FATHER'S JOB TO KEEP
THE WOODBIN FILLED. THIS BIN WAS USUALLY LOCATED IN THE
KITCHEN. THIS JOB WAS ONE OF THE MANY THAT MY MOTHER'S
GRANDFATHER PERFORMED FAITHFULLY. ON THE NIGHT OF
THE DAY THAT HE DIED, HIS WIFE CLAIMS SHE DISTINCTLY
HEARD HIM CHOP THE WOOD, CARRY IT INTO THE HOUSE, AND
DEPOSIT IT IN THE BIN.
Submitter comment:
THIS STORY HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH OUT FAMILY FOR
GENERATIONS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 07-00-1964 ; 00001800S
DREAM
THIS MOTHER'S GRANDFATHER HAD A BEST FRIEND WITH WHOM HE
WAS INSEPARABLE. THEY PROMISED EACH OTHER THAT WHOEVER
DIED FIRST WOULD RETURN TO THE OTHER IN A DREAM AND
TELL HIM HOW IT WAS. THIS FRIEND DIED FIRST, BEFORE
THE GRANDFATHER, AND APPEARED TO HIM AND SAID THAT
HEAVEN WAS FANTASTICALLY BEAUTIFUL. HE MENTIONED
BOYHOOD FRIENDS WHOM HE SAW THERE AND SAID THEY HAD TO
WORK 24 HOURS A DAY AND HAD A HARD TIME. HE ALSO
MENTIONED THAT ONCE YOU WERE DEAD, YOU COULD NEVER
RETURN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 02-20-1970