The Official Scary Halloween Stories Thread

vanity

[Salamander]

“Suicide Ridge” ping.

“Wanna see something -really- scary?”

[Dan Akroyd]

[Vicki]

All I will say is that I lived it growing up.

[shibumi]

".....And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave a hoary corpse, followed by Faith, an aged woman, and children and grandchildren, a goodly procession, besides neighbors not a few, they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom."

From Hawthorne. Young Goodman Brown

(At its penultimate scariest when read for Caedmon Recordings back in the 50's by Basil Rathbone)

[abishai]

That's odd. There's a story here near Camargo, Illinois about a young girl out on the dirt road that people keep hitting with their car, then find nothing. Also there is a huge, haunted and abandoned star observatory in Walnut Point State Park.

Both of these sites are on the Embarrass River.

[bgill]

Great stories, everyone.

[archy]

On the phone booth glass was a magic marker drawing in red of a devil’s head.