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From: david@ariel.yorku.ca (David Forster)
Subject: Re: arm ripped off
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:41:58 GMT

A version of this urban legend spread to Germany some years ago.  ``Bild,'' a
popular German rag (probably comparable to the `Toronto Sun' or `USA Today' --
I don't know other countries' papers well enough to give equivalents, I'm
afraid) reported that a woman was chased into her car by an attacker in a park,
drove away, got home, and opened the car door to find N fingers fall out.
I got this second-hand (you think I read these rags?) about 8 or 9 years ago.

- DF
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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ghost writing...
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:57:51 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep10.082509.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au> miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.151933.29807@news.columbia.edu>, egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>
>> ...that there is a _new_ L. Ron Hubbard book in the bookstore.
>> 
>> <Just waiting for Isaac Asimov's _Guide to the Afterlife_>
>> 
>I think I'll wait for it to hit video! :)

I'd be more interested in seeing the Books-On-Tape version, read
by the estimable Doctor himself.



--
"I wish there was a way I could vote for you a hundred times"
"There is . . . just kidding."
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From: chris@ponder.csci.unt.edu (chris gleaves)
Subject: Re: a ghost called Mary Worth
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:33:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.183810.8331@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ann.Feeney@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ann Feeney) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.141940.3452@access.digex.com> betsy@access.digex.com (Betsy Marks) writes:
>>
>>So did we, but in our version, you were supposed to say "Bloody Mary" three 
>>times.  (This was in Rochester, NY.  Where were the other versions known?)
>>
>>And by the way; no, I never tried it.
>>
>>-betsy {Araminta, Goddess of Phonelists}
>>
>>     <betsy@access.digex.com   h) 202/244-2958   w) 202/554-9066 x262>
>
>
>Yup, Bloody Mary was the Chicago area version.  (I'm from Oak Park, a
>suburb adjoining on the west.)  And the chant ws "I believe in Bloody Mary."

  It was also the Dallas version.

chris
chris@unt.edu
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: College Ghosts
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:59:06 GMT
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <37014@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> jma@reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
>Did egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu really type:
>

Yes.

>> 
>> I HATE stories like this.  I usually worry for a few minutes about
>> looking out the window, thinking I'll see someone (probably very pale
>> and dead) looking in.  Just one of my idiosyncracies.
>
>If that bothers you, don't think about turning around and seeing who (or
>what) is standing behind you...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




--
"I wish there was a way I could vote for you a hundred times"
"There is . . . just kidding."
			-- _Bob Roberts_
From: Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Hitchhiking Ghost
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:52:53 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <9SEP199215321792@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
devol@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WILLIAM DEVOL) writes:

> That's the story the way it was told to me about six years ago.  Any of you 
> have any hitchhiking ghosts?

If you can find a copy of it, watch the Twilight Zone (original series)
episode called "The Hitchhiker."  One of my favorites, and similar to
yours, although with an even creepier (IMHO) ending...

Jane Deering
fury.eyes@dartmouth.edu
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From: wlamonac@bach.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca)
Subject: Re: a ghost called Mary Worth
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 04:50:34 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.141940.3452@access.digex.com> betsy@access.digex.com (Betsy Marks) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.175222.1877@bradley.bradley.edu> death@buhub.bradley.edu (Dustin Slater) writes:
>>We also had this same sort of thing as a kid, but for us you could make her
>>appear by turing in a circle three times with the light off and saying a
>>"chant". In so doing this supposedly arms were going to appear out of the
>>mirror and scratch your face. 
>>--
>>death@buhub.bradley.edu                              death@camelot.bradley.edu
>
>So did we, but in our version, you were supposed to say "Bloody Mary" three 
>times.  (This was in Rochester, NY.  Where were the other versions known?)
>
>And by the way; no, I never tried it.
>
>-betsy {Araminta, Goddess of Phonelists}
>
>     <betsy@access.digex.com   h) 202/244-2958   w) 202/554-9066 x262>

That's the version I heard too- just repeat "Bloody Mary" over and over.  Our
local variation (Drexel Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia) was that Bloody Mary
was the Devil's wife and there were several ways to manifest her:

Say her name 3 times in front of a mirror and she would appear.  Say her name
10 times and she would live in your heart (don't know exactly what that meant).
Say her name 100 times and she would take you straight down to Hell.  For what
it's worth, this was told to me by my neighbors who went to a Catholic School.
I went to a public school and I don't think the kids there knew about the
story.
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Subject: Re: Ghost writing...
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 05:09:49 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <BuJrEC.9rp@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> fernee@newton.physics.uq.oz.au (Mark Fernee) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.234823.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>, cvetp036@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:

>|> BTW, for you H.P. Lovecraft readers out there, any truth behind the dreaded
>|> Necronomicon? I HAD a copy of that I bought at a bookstore, just for the hell
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>|> of it.
 
>What ever you do DON'T READ IT or you go irreversibly INSANE.

You only become irreversibly insane if you read it backwards.

ObUL:  You can get special red marker pens to enhance the quality of
       subliminal messages on CD's

Derek "sdrocer drahciR ffilC no segassem naitsirhc esrever era erehT" Tearne


-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
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From: umsister@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sisterson)
Subject: Top 5 Movies...
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:58:34 GMT

Top 5  List of Scary Movies :       VOTES
-----------------------------       -----
1.  Exorcist                          5
    The Changeling                    5
2.  The Haunting  ................... 4
    The Shining                       4
    The Day After                     4
3.  Evil Dead ....................... 3
4.  Ghost Story                       2
    Alien (the first one)             2
    Threads                           2
    The Haunting of Hill House        2
5.  The Innocents ................... 1
    Dead of Night                     1
    The Uninvited                     1
    The Lady in White                 1
    Grim Prairie Tales                1
    The Fall of the House of Usher    1
    The Fog                           1
    The House                         1
    Boogeyman                         1
    The Entity                        1
    The Legend of Hell House          1
    Dead Calm                         1
    Amityville                        1
    Poltergeist                       1
    Psycho                            1
    The Other                         1
    Hellraiser                        1
    Witchboard                        1
    Night of Living Dead (orginal)    1
    Carnival of Souls                 1
    Vampyr                            1
    Terminator (yes, the terminator)  1
    Gothic                            1
    Night of hte Triffids             1
    Heavy Metal                       1
    Don't be afraid of the dark...
        Sally                         1
    Paperhouse                        1
    Hauting of Hell House             1
    Haunting of Julia                 1
    The Innocents                     1

Well, That's is it folks.   Thanks for all who sent me their votes thru
email and the net.  

Casey Sisterson

    

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From: mcline@terapin.com (Matthew Cline)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Ouija boards
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:38:31 PST
Organization: BBS

        Well, here's another Ouija board story that a friend of mine once told
me.  She said that a Ouija board was being used at a party, and someone decided
to ask it "Are you telling the truth?" or "Are you for real?" or a question
along simillar lines.  There wasn't any awnser; not a "yes" or "no", the little
movable piece thing just stayed put.  Anyone ever heard of something like this
before?

Matthew Cline
mcline@terapin.com
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From: larsons@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (Larson Shawn Michael)
Subject: Re: News of the weird
Organization: Oregon State University
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 20:30:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.215413.19472@midway.uchicago.edu> wagner@newton.uchicago.edu (John Wagner) writes:

>There is a place on a highway in the hills Northwest of Fayetteville,
>Arkansas, where one thinks that up is down and vice versa.
>
>			J. Wagner

Places like this probably exist all over the country.  One example is the
"Oregon Vortex" or "House of Mystery" near Gold Hill, Oregon.  This is an
old building that slid down a hillside, becoming so twisted that it is
impossible to orient yourself inside.  The owners of the place claim the
effect is due to a "gravitational vortex" centered near the house, but
it's far more likely an optical illusion.

However, none of this has to do with ghost stories.
--------
Shawn Larson - larsons@storm.cs.orst.edu

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories,alt.folklore.urban
From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Ghost writing...
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:19:33 GMT

...that there is a _new_ L. Ron Hubbard book in the bookstore.

<Just waiting for Isaac Asimov's _Guide to the Afterlife_>


--
"I wish I could vote for you a hundred times"
"You can . . . just kidding."
			-- _Bob Roberts_
From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Ghosts in ancient ruins??
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:40:12 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
In-reply-to: cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk's message of 5 Sep 92 19:14:07 GMT

In article <4018@keele.keele.ac.uk> cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear) writes:

   There's a modern ghost story from York about ghostly
   legionaries marching down the site of an old Roman road and I suspect
   there may well be other tales of this ilk in England.

I remember seeing a man interviewed on the BBC in the 1970s who swore that he
saw a Roman soldier come out of a wall in some underground chamber, and walk
into the opposite wall.  Can't remember anything more detailed than that
though. 

   A general thought: from a year's stay in Spain I got the feeling that
   stories of hauntings don't seem to attract the Latin imagination anything
   like as much as the Anglo-Saxon one. Any one any idea why that's the case
   or can prove me wrong?

It's much warmer and lighter in Latin countries in the winter; they don't
have as much darkness to be scared of!
--
	-- Chris. 	cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk   (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)

		
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From: naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran)
Subject: Japanese Ghost Stories (or at least legends)
Keywords: japan ghost stories
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:53:39 GMT

Jorge Luis Borges once edited a collcection of ghost stories, fantasy stories
and any other 'supernatural' stories he could find and put them all in one
book. (The Book of Fantasy as I recall, it's a collection). One of the stories
in it was a translation of a Japanese Legend about a former Samurai who became
a Bhudist monk and comes across Japanese 'ogres'. Cute story in that it had the
fact that the ogres were only floating heads and used bodies during the day.
Anyways, the monk comes across a lonely house on his way somewhere and was
invited to stay the night by one of the three people in the house. At a certain
time at night, he got up to pray (I think) and he saw that his hosts' heads
were missing. He ran outside hoping to find the criminals but instead saw the
ogres grazing on some roots and grass. One of the heads chastised the other for
inviting the monk in, because then they couldn't kill and eat him. Well, the
only way to get rid of these creatures is to hide their bodies so they cannot
return to them. The monk did that and as he fled into the night, the heads
tried to chase after him cursing him as he ran.

Another Japanes legend in the book was a short, but really good story about a
couple who con a young man into thinking they can turn him into a wizard. They
virtually set him up in slavery and told him to climb a tree a day, each day,
climbing a higher tree. The end is really funny when one day he climbs up,
then calls back down his thanks to the couple and walks away -- In mid-air. :-)

But what about those Cthulu stories?
H.P. Lovecraft forever! :-)

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From: jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght)
Subject: Re: Ouija Boards
Organization: Clemson University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:43:52 GMT

>garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:

Homemade ouija board story deleted for brevity

>                               The way I explain it to myself is that it was
>some strange effect of the surface tension between the damp glass and the
>table cloth. Could be. 
 
I would not say this is the answer to debunk the story because I was not
there to see it but this IS a possible answer.  I do this for fun to
tease the nephews and nieces sometimes saying it's a thirsty ghost, or I
can move things telepathicaly or whatever spooks fit my mood.  If you
set an empty glass down on a moist surface, the differences in air
pressure inside and outside the glass will cause the glass to move some.
This is from one edge of the glass lifting slightly allowing air to move
in and out from under the glass and pushing it along at the same time.
Personally, I always need a soaking wet surface to accomplish the
effect, not just a damp rim on the glass, but that might just be an
effect of the kind of glass I use.  It is also a good party joke to
startle a few drunks :-)

>Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu

Jim
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From: rnakkula@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robin J Nakkula)
Subject: Re: Ouija Boards
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 04:41:09 GMT

Since we just moved and I can't find my board and planchet, I can't report
the exact name, but...

Ouija boards offered for sale today (new) are manufactured by Parker Brothers
(I believe, or Milton Bradley, but in any case, by a large toy manufacturing
house).  The board I bought in the 1970's was that way, but it also carried
the name of the individual (a man's name, I can't recall what exactly) who
originally sold these things (and from whom the toy manufacturer presumably
bought the rights from).

A former housemate of mine once related that whlie the Parker Brothers' boards 
were fairly safe and usually innocuous, those older boards that only carried
the man's name and not the toy manufacturer's were like playing with fire:
use of them would more often than not yield contact with an unstable or
malevolent intelligence that sometimes would not go away when the board was
put aside: banging windows, doors, etc., and endangering the people in the
house.

My sister used to say that my board told her a great many things (most of which
she would deny today): that she used to be a Civil War soldier who was hanged   
for desertion (explaining her dislike of neckties and scarves) but I never had
the opportunity to ask the board stuff like that for myself.

@@@---Robin N.
From: cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Ghosts in ancient ruins??
Date: 5 Sep 92 19:14:07 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England

From article <Bu45sL.5pG@acsu.buffalo.edu>, by v095qhyg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (CONSTANTINOS I. ORFANOS):

There's a nice werewolf story in Petronius' Satyricon if that counts.
Pliny Epistles 7.27 is a haunted house story, but remarkable only for
its sheer tedium. There's a modern ghost story from York about ghostly
legionaries marching down the site of an old Roman road and I suspect
there may well be other tales of this ilk in England. A general
thought: from a year's stay in Spain I got the feeling that stories of hauntings
don't seem to attract the Latin imagination anything like as much as the
Anglo-Saxon one. Any one any idea why that's the case or can prove me
wrong?

Andy
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From: wagner@newton.uchicago.edu (John Wagner)
Subject: Re: College Ghosts
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 22:14:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug30.212019.5081@news.columbia.edu> egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy) writes:
>In article <BttEFy.7t2@acsu.buffalo.edu> v095qhyg@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (CONSTANTINOS I. ORFANOS) writes:
>>
>>           The second report has to do with a kid who had committed 
>>    suicide by jumping out of a 10th floor dorm window.  About 8 years
>>    after that unfortunate event, the residents of that same room heard
>>    a knocking on their window around 11 pm.  Believing it had to be a prank
>>    since they live so high up in the dorms, they lift the curtains and
>>    found the same kid, who committed suicided 8 years before, floating
>>    in the air outside the window.  He supposedly decided that suicide
>>    was not the solution.
>
>I HATE stories like this.  I usually worry for a few minutes about
>looking out the window, thinking I'll see someone (probably very pale
>and dead) looking in.  Just one of my idiosyncracies.
>
>
>--
>Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song
>Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
>			-- T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"

	Aha! More proof! "Salem's Lot" featured such a physics-ignorant
punk! However, he had fangs.  "Salem's Lot" was an excelent documentary
revealing the intricacies of the spirit world.

				J. Wagner


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From: greenidd@CS.ColoState.EDU (danielle greenidge)
Subject: Re: a ghost called Mary Worth
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 04:05:29 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department

My friend, Rhonda, her sister, and I would do this sometimes at slumber parties
with our other young girl friends too, but we would have one person at a time
stand in front of the mirror (even the tv sometimes), turn around 3 times with
her eyes closed while chanting "Bloody Mary". When you opened your eyes you were
suppose to look into the mirror/tv and see her.  If I remember something of the
story correctly, she (Bloody Mary) was suppose to appear with her face all cut
up and bloody. *shiver*

Funny how I haven't thought of "her" in so long til I read the story about
Mary Worth.

Now to share a secret with strangers (or should I say fellow ghostly friends?):
		The few times they ever set me up to be the victim, I would
		turn like I was suppose to, close my eyes like I was suppose
		to, and chant like I was suppose to, but I never looked directly
		into the mirror/tv. (I just realized that I would always
		move away from the mirror/tv while turning without the others
		noticing too --- guess I was a smarter kid than I realized, eh?
		*grin*)


		
	--Danielle.


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From: xklh@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Krista Lyn Haggert)
Subject: ouija boards
Keywords: antique
Reply-To: xklh@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:26:21 GMT


This is my first post so I hope that it goes out O.K.

My grandma has an antique ouija board and the name
on it is William Fuld of Baltimore Maryland.  My
grandma's mom obtained in around 1915.  My grandma
said that it has worked for her many many times.
She used it during world war II to see if my grandpa
was going to have to go to war (He was in flight training).
The ouija board told her no, and two weeks before my
grandpa was supposed to go overseas the war ended.  She
also used it when she was pregnant to see when she would
have the baby and if it was going to be a girl or a boy.
I cannot remember if the date was correct but I know
that it told her the correct sex of the baby.  A girl (my mom)


That's about it!

**Krista**





Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
From:  ()
Subject: arm ripped off
Followup-To: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 20:48:58 GMT

i'm from north new jersey, looking for information on "hooker man". this is
one of those stories where a railroad worker gets his arm torn off, dies,
and then looks for it with a lantern for all eternity. i know some people
that have gone out to the tracks and come back with some good stories. any
of you have any?
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
From: rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu (Joseph Good)
Subject: Dulce New Mexico
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:04:16 GMT


There were some recent postings about the 'secret' base in 
Dulce, New Mexico.. but I didn't print them out at the time.

This saturday, some friends and I are going to be traveling to 
Dulce, and would like some directions.. hints.. signs.. anything
to look for to see if there is actually some kind of alien base
there.

In one posting, somebody said that if you are traveling down the 
road to the base, black limo's and helicopters will stop you and
ask you to leave.. and if you're lucky, you will get to see some
MIB's.. (yay)..  This is all we want to see - some proof that there
is something there.

So, if anybody has any info, could you please send it?

Thanks!

J
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