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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
| 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
THE GHOST OF KILLARNEY
TIM, DIRECTOR OF CAMP KILLARNEY, AND OTHERS TELL
A REMARKABLY SIMILAR STORY ABOUT A SO-CALLED
"KILLARNEY GHOST."
MANY YEARS AGO, AN OLD GUY'S WIFE IS KILLED BY
WOLVES AND HER HAIR RIPPED FROM HER SKULL. OLD
GUY GOES BERSERK, DROWNS HIMSELF IN LAKE KILLARNEY.
NOW HIS BERSERK GHOST, EVERY NIGHT AT 12 COMES
EERILY FROM THE LAKE, LOOKING FOR HER HAIR TO PASTE
IT BACK ON. BUT HE'LL EVEN TRY TO PULL ANYBODY'S
HAIR OUT AS THEY SLEEP. SINCE YOUNGER GHOSTS ARE
RELATIVELY POWERLESS, HE CAN SO FAR ONLY MUSS HAIR
UP. THE AMAZING PROOF FOR THE VERITABILITY OF
THIS STORY IS THE FACT THAT PEOPLE IN THE AREA DO,
INDEED, FIND THEIR HAIR DISARRANGED IN THE
MORNINGS!
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CAMBRIDGE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 07-00-1969
IN ELMORE, OHIO THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE A HEADLESS
MOTORCYCLE DRIVER WHO COMES AT YOU WHEN YOU BLINK
YOUR LIGHTS AND BLOW YOUR HORN THREE TIMES ON A CERTAIN
BRIDGE IN ELMORE.
Submitter comment: HEARD IT FROM FRIENDS WHO WENT OUT THERE.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter BELIEF -- Number Properties attributed to specific numbers or numerals individually |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
GHOST STORY OF DROWNED WOMAN
THERE IS A LEGEND OF A WOMAN AND HER DOG WHO DROWNED
OFF SULLIVAN'S POINT, ON EAGLE LAKE IN SOUTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN. HER GHOST IS SAID TO BE SEEN VERY OFTEN,
AND SHE IS USUALLY MOANING IN SORROW. A DOG IS OFTEN
SEEN ALSO ROAMING THE BEACHES FOR ITS MASTER. THIS
DOG HAS A COLLAR WITH THE NAME OF THE DEAD WOMAN
ON IT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; EAGLE LAKE
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00001956-1957
HAUNTED HOUSE
ONCE, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, A MAN LIVED BY HIMSELF IN
A HOUSE IN THE SOUTHSIDE OF CHICAGO. HIS LEGS
WERE BADLY MAULED AND HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
THEM AMPUTATED. ONE WAS TAKEN OFF BUT THE MAN
KILLED HIMSELF BEFORE THE OTHER LEG COULD BE TAKEN
OFF. HE WAS BURIED IN THE BASEMENT AND TO THIS
DAY A ONE-LEGGED GHOST HAUNTS THAT HOUSE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-00-1968
IN WESTERN CANADA PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THE LEGEND OF
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
HALF MAN, HALF ANIMAL OF ENORMOUS SIZE. NOONE HAS AC-
TUALLY SEEN IT, BUT PEOPLE CLAIM TO HAVE BROUGHT
BACK HAIR AND FOOTPRINTS FROM IT.
EVEN TODAY A LOT OF MONEY IS SPENT ON RESEARCH OF
THIS THING.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; CANADA ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MONSTER
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
GERMAN GRAVEYARD
IN A GRAVEYARD IN GERMANY, THERE WERE STRANGE
LIGHTS SHINING. THE PEOPLE SAID IT WAS THE
PEOPLE BURIED THERE WALKING AROUND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GERMANY ; WARREN
Keyword(s): GHOSTLY LIGHTS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-00-1968
GHOST OF BELLE ISLE {DETROIT, MICHIGAN}
A GIRL WAS RAPED AND KILLED ON BELLE ISLE AND NOW
HER MOTHER HAUNTS BELLE ISLE TO PROTECT THE LOVERS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-00-1968
GHOST RAIDERS
IN GERMANY WHEN THE WIND HOWLS THROUGH THE WHITE
MOUNTAINS, IT IS THE GHOST RAIDERS RIDING THROUGH.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 01-00-1968
SCREAMING MEEMIE
ACCORDING TO KAREN, SCREAMING MEEMIE IS REALLY AND
TRULY A GHOST WHO HAUNTS A SMALL BRIDGE OUTSIDE OF
TIFFIN, OHIO. EVERY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, KIDS PARKED
IN THE LOVERS' LANE NEAR THE BRIDGE CAN HEAR HER.
IT SEEMS THAT HER LOVER WENT BERSERK AND MURDERED MISS
MEEMIE (?) THERE ONE NIGHT. SUPPOSEDLY SHE'S TRYING
TO WARN OTHER GIRLS AWAY BECAUSE THE GUY STILL LURKS
AROUND THERE. WE VISITED THE SCENE TO GLEAN EVIDENCE;
FOUND A VERY SPOOKY LITTLE BRIDGE, BUT NOTHING ELSE
PARTICULARLY.
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
THE TOMBS
THE LOCATION OF THIS SIGHT IS SOMEWHERE IN A
GRAVEYARD ALONG 26 MILE ROAD IN ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN.
IT IS SUPPOSEDLY HAUNTED BY A BLIND GHOST WHO WALKS
WITH THE AID OF A CANE AND IS ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED
BY HIS "GHOST" DOG. MOREOVER, IF ANYONE KISSES
HIS TOMB, LOCATED IN THE CEMETERY, THREE TIMES, HE
WILL DIE. THREE PEOPLE HAVE MET THIS FATE ALREADY.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT GAVE VERY SKETCHY DETAILS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROCHESTER HILLS
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN