Thursday #26 - Boo Bash!!!

[RICHARD]

aliens and popcorn....

DONE...


what about the "tingler"??????


LOVED THAT MOVIE!!

[gini]

http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/

Ooooh, will this site keep you busy. You can even research haunting sites near you! Have a ghoulish time here.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I like old movies like 'the Blob' and 'War of the Worlds'.

[slick]

Originally posted by gini
http://theshadowlands.net/ghost/

Ooooh, will this site keep you busy. You can even research haunting sites near you! Have a ghoulish time here.

Thanks for the link Gini. Work???? What's that???? Go away, I'm busy reading ghost stories.

As for movies I'm partial to the Apes ones. Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and all the sequels.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by slick
Isn't garlic supposed to keep the vampires away???

Mmmmmm....garlic and steaks, yummy! Good thing I just got back from lunch. Off to check out the scarey site posted by Gini!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
Off to check out the scarey site posted by Gini!

OMG!!! Bring me back to reality!!! I've only read two stories and I've totally creeped myself out! I got chills and everything reading these. Please phone, ring, make me work so I can't read anymore of these! It's a real good thing I'm at work and now at home, all alone, at night......<shiver>

[slick]

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
Mmmmmm....garlic and steaks, yummy! Good thing I just got back from lunch. Off to check out the scarey site posted by Gini!

Lunch time here now. Would love some steak, but all I got is a healthy salad and fruit. Yuck!! Guess I'll have to use visualization. The tomato is really a sauteed mushroom.....

[Corinna]

I just got a Bela Lugosi movie I hadn,t seen Clayton moore(the lone ranger) and he are plastic surgons for the nazis. It's called Black Dragons. Think my 22 year old daughter and I will curl up with a tub of death by choclote Ice cream and cokes on friday . Both unempolyed right now, need the bonding thing .

[catland]

Originally posted by RICHARD

what about the "tingler"??????

LOVED THAT MOVIE!!

Not familiar with that one. I wanted to do a google search but was afraid of what I might find.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by catland
Not familiar with that one. I wanted to do a google search but was afraid of what I might find.

Good thinking. I would have went ahead and did it, only to be surprised at what I found - at least you thought ahead of time....

[tatsxxx11]

Great ghoulish minds think alike! Randi, I was going to post the story THE VISITOR then saw you already had! Gini, I spent hours on that Shadowlands site yesterday! Did you see all the links to the Bell Witch? It's the real life ghost story that the Blair Witch Project was based on! One of my favorite classic horror stories is the Tell Tale Heart by Poe. That one gives me nightmares! Anyone else have any "real life" ghost stories to share??

Here's the story of the Bell Witch!

The Bell Witch Haunting is the worlds largest most unexplained phenomena. Unlike any other haunting, the legacy of the Bell Witch has never changed. It is backed by unending amounts of evidence making it one of the worlds greatest legends.

This is not your "Blair Witch" as so many misunderstand. As a matter of fact, the Bell "Witch" was not a witch at all. In the early 1800's, the Bell family moved to Tennessee from North Carolina and settled on a large acre farm located next to the Red River in what is now the sleepy little town of Adams, Tennessee in Robertson County. One day as John Bell went to check on his crops, he noticed an unusual creature sitting between two corn rows. When Bell shot at the animal..it vanished. Soon after, the family began to experience unusual sounds and knockings around their home. The children's covers where pulled from their beds and funiture would mysteriously knock over.

The oldest daughter, Betsy Bell, seemed to be the target of the spirits dislike. She was beaten, slapped, pinched and constantly assaulted by the unseen force. John Bell shared his part of the unfair deal as the force plagued him with an unknown sickness causeing his tounge and throat to swell to the point were eating and talking were impossible. The force continued to harry the family to the point that finally John Bell confided in a trustworthy friend to try to figure out the means of the being. Nothing ever became of his explanations and soon others were summoned to the home to marvel at the events.

The spirit soon gained a voice, starting as only answering questions with knocks or whistles. The whistles turned to whispers and then a loud, clear female voice. When the spirit was asked of her origin, she would state an answer, only for it to turn out as a prank. The only final answer she ever gave was that she was a "Witch" of a local rather eccerate woman by the name of Kate Batts, whom most in the community found rather unpleasant. Therefore the Bell Spirit earned the nicknames "Bell Witch" or "Ol' Kate". She stated her only reason for plaguing the family was to kill John Bell...for reasons unknown and also to see that Betsy does not marry her love, Joshua Gardner.

The haunting continued for years and the home was filled with loud noises and cackles. The "witch" would occasionally sing gospel hymns and preach the scriptures of the Bible and even pray and cry to God as if she were a lost soul. She could even read minds, travel to anywhere in the world to relay events, and even predict future events. Kate never made herself visible but did, however, allow few others to shake her hand. Most explained the "hand" they felt was soft like velvet and very small, but sadly enough it was strong enough to fight off the strongest man around and crimson poor Betsy Bell's cheeks.

The witch remained with the family until she successfully murdered John Bell by posioning him, and saw to it that Betsy broke off her engagement to her love. The witch then left the household declaring she would be back in 7 years, and as declared, she returned to predict future events to John Bell's oldest son...all which have occured, such as the Civil War, The Great Depression, WWI and WWII. All recorded documents that the Bells took of Kate's predictions are pure evidence that the haunting was very real and very horrifying.

Kate left again to say she would return in 107 years (1935), but noone has made it known if she ever did return. Now, in present day Adams along the Red River where part of John Bell's homestead once stood...resides a cave were at one time the Bell children used to play. It was also used as the family's storage cellar for food because the year round temperature remains at 57 degrees. Many of the witch's events with the children occured in the cave. Most believe Ol' Kate still resides in the cave. Odd photos have been taken in and around it, unusual sounds have been heard in it and on occassion beautiful singing has been heard coming from the mouth of the cave. The Kirby family whom own the cave give tours to any thrill seeker willing to go into the cave. The Bell Witch Haunting was true and terrifying. Maybe you should go feel the chill up your spine for yourself.

[tomkatzid]

Hope this isn't too scary for you all. I watched a show last night on urban legends, this is the story. It stuck with me all day today, seeing it was very scary. But they said it's just a 'story', a legend, not true.


A teenager is driving his girlfriend home from a date. The boy had been playing around earlier about the car running out of gas as a means to make out with her. Well, it doesn't work and she's mad. He starts up the car to take her home, apologizing all the way, when lo and behold they actually do run out of gas. He pulls the car over by some trees. It's very late and the area is secluded and wooded. The boy tells his girlfriend that he saw a gas station a couple of miles back and since going ahead would take even longer, he tells her to stay in the car with the windows rolled up and locked and he'll get back as fast as he can, no sense in both of them going, right?

Well, the girl waits in the car. It's been about 20 minutes when she hears a faint scratching noise. It starts to bother her, but she blows it off as the tree branches hitting the car, it had been windy that day, She decides to turn on the radio to listen to some music so it won't freak her out. Well, now it's been almost 2 hours and she's starting to get worried. Her boyfriend was a jock and could have easily made it there and back in under an hour. A half hour later she's very worried and decides to turn off the radio and look around. He had told her not to get out under any circumstances so she tries to peer out the window, she sees nothing. To her annoyment the scratching sound is still there. She decides that she will get out just long enough to break off that damn branch. She gets out and notices the gas can on the ground near the door. She immediately turns around and sees her boyfriend hanging upside down from the tree, throat slit, and his fingernails dragging across the top of the car making a scratching sound. Of course, had she been listening to talk radio instead of music, she would have known a maniac had escaped from the asylum near the woods where they were parked.

Katz

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Originally posted by tatsxxx11
Maybe you should go feel the chill up your spine for yourself. [/B]

I just did!!!!!!
Katz, I've heard a urban legend similar to yours only the one I heard had the couple parked and making out. When they heard the scratching, the got scared and left. When they got to the filling station they heard of an excaped convict with a hook instead of one hand. When they opened the door on the passenger's side, a hook dropped to the ground. It had been stuck in the door on that side. He had been trying to pry the door open.

[Cincy'sMom]

Originally posted by tomkatzid
Hope this isn't too scary for you all. I watched a show last night on urban legends, this is the story. It stuck with me all day today, seeing it was very scary. But they said it's just a 'story', a legend, not true.


A teenager is driving his girlfriend home from a date. The boy had been playing around earlier about the car running out of gas as a means to make out with her. Well, it doesn't work and she's mad. He starts up the car to take her home, apologizing all the way, when lo and behold they actually do run out of gas. He pulls the car over by some trees. It's very late and the area is secluded and wooded. The boy tells his girlfriend that he saw a gas station a couple of miles back and since going ahead would take even longer, he tells her to stay in the car with the windows rolled up and locked and he'll get back as fast as he can, no sense in both of them going, right?

Well, the girl waits in the car. It's been about 20 minutes when she hears a faint scratching noise. It starts to bother her, but she blows it off as the tree branches hitting the car, it had been windy that day, She decides to turn on the radio to listen to some music so it won't freak her out. Well, now it's been almost 2 hours and she's starting to get worried. Her boyfriend was a jock and could have easily made it there and back in under an hour. A half hour later she's very worried and decides to turn off the radio and look around. He had told her not to get out under any circumstances so she tries to peer out the window, she sees nothing. To her annoyment the scratching sound is still there. She decides that she will get out just long enough to break off that damn branch. She gets out and notices the gas can on the ground near the door. She immediately turns around and sees her boyfriend hanging upside down from the tree, throat slit, and his fingernails dragging across the top of the car making a scratching sound. Of course, had she been listening to talk radio instead of music, she would have known a maniac had escaped from the asylum near the woods where they were parked.

Katz

I actually have heard this one and many varieies of it before...I think it may have even been in the movie Urban Legend. Still creepy though...

I have tried looking through my haunted house spcritps to share something I have wriotten or helped write, but without the dark basement and jump scare at the end, they just aren't as good. I guess for now I'll sit back, enjoy the ghost stories and browse for ideas for next year's haunted house

We did write a "twisted nursery rhyme" at work...

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
Jill came back with Jack in her sack
And laughed as his head rolled after....

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by catland
Not familiar with that one. I wanted to do a google search but was afraid of what I might find.

LOLOLOL!!


the movie 'the tingler' was a Vincent Price classic.

He finds the 'tingler' is a monster that shows up on your spine when you get scared......the problem is to get a tingler you have to scare a person and cut it from their spine.......

at the end of the movie VP looks into the camera and yells something like..


scream the tingler is loose in the theater!!!


well, they had the seats wired to shock the patrons......try THAT today!!


Ummmmm, I did not do a google or anything like that, but I was surprised when I DID look......that was a different kind of scream.......