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From: Jane.R.Deering@dartmouth.edu (Jane R. Deering)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Theatre Ghosts (1000 thanx!)
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:07:14 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <1992Sep9.234159.58750@cc.usu.edu>
sltxh@cc.usu.edu writes:

>     Anyone else out there have any Theatre ghost stories? 

At Amherst Regional High School in Massachusetts (my old high school),
the Theater Company had a ghost legend of its own.  There was a large
open space above the auditorium that was criscrossed with catwalks; we
were told that if we fell off a catwalk and on to the insulation below,
the ceiling of the auditorium would not be able to support us and we
would fall through to the floor far below.  Adding to the creepy
atmosphere of danger were poor lighting and an entrance that required
us to climb up an ancient trap door through to this room.  Theater
company light crew members went up frequently because this room had the
only access to many of the spots hung facing the stage.

Legend had it (at least, the version I heard - any other ARHSers out
there familiar with this legend feel free to add on! =)) that there was
an old ghost up there, somehow attached to a dummy that resided in that
room.  Supposedly when the dummy was removed, the ghost would act up
and make a horrible racket.  Lighting crew members would also sometimes
come out of there with stories about how the ghost had been in a bad
mood that night and was shifting things around, making noise, and all
in all making things difficult.

During one production, a few of us got inspired by all these stories
and decided to put a real scare on for the performers who would be on
stage that night.  A few intrepid adventurers climbed up and dressed a
stage dummy (if I remember correctly, not /the/ dummy) in an old,
tattered, wedding dress costume, and propped it up near the lights with
its legs dangling down, as if it were just sitting up there, enjoying
the show.  It went over quite well =), but unfortunately the school
officials had it taken down.


Another ARHS legend concerns tunnels supposedly criscrossing beneath
the school, with an entrance reputedly to have been under the stage in
the auditorium.  Apparently students in the 60's and 70's used to skip
classes, sneak underneath, and smoke pot, until all entrances were
eventually boarded up.  The story goes that a student, passed out from
smoking too much, got boarded in, never to escape; his spirit still
roams beneath the school.



Now I'm scaring myself!  =)  Why does this office suddenly seem so
quiet... ?   ;-)

Jane Deering
fury.eyes@dartmouth.edu
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From: wagner@newton.uchicago.edu (John Wagner)
Subject: Re: Ghosts in ancient ruins??
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:39:45 GMT

In article <1684E9D54.G0900@vmcms.csuohio.edu> G0900@vmcms.csuohio.edu writes:
>I am interested in Ancient ruins of Greece, Turkey and Egypt.  I have
>been to Greece and was wondering if anyone has heard any interesting
>stories about the ruins???  Does anyone know of any books about sightings
>in Greece?? I have heard stories from England but never have heard any
>about Greece.
> 
>Thanks Katherine  g0900 at csuohio or g0900 at vmcms.csuohio.edu

	Beware the ides of March!

				J. Wagner


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories,alt.folklore.urban
From: sfjr@wam.umd.edu (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: Ghost writing...
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:07:46 GMT

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 wish I could vote for you a hundred times"
>"You can . . . just kidding."
>			-- _Bob Roberts_

I agree so totally about Asimov's GUIDE TO THE AFTER LIFE.  The only thing that
stopped that man from arrogantly writing on every subject under the sun
was his death. Like you I wouldnt be shocked to see it in the hard back section
of my local bookstore.:)




BTW............COME YOU GUYS.........WRITE MORE STORIES......IM HOOKED!!!:0


SINCERELY YOURS ......STEVE R.........very much alive:)


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From: cgc2646@usl.edu (Cech Claude G)
Subject: Re: Chinese ghost tale [now Japanese films]
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:03:25 GMT

In article <6296@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> selina@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Selina Glynn) writes:
>                  [stuff deleted]
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>P.S. Speaking about movies, can the Japanese netter suggest some Japanese
>ghost movies with English subtitles.  I really enjoyed "Stories of the
>Four Valley" when I was young.  It's a different kind of horror.  The scenes
>of ancient, dead silence with ghost coming back for revenge registered in
>my mind.  The spooky atmosphere was very well done.
>
>Selina Glynn
>DCIEM Toronto
>-- 
>	Selina Wong-Glynn, DCIEM, Canadian Forces Base Toronto 
>UUCP:	   {decvax|ihnp4|watmath}!utzoo!dciem!dretor!selina
>        or uunet!mnetor!dciem!dretor!selina or nrcaer!dciem!dretor!selina
>Internet:  selina@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca


I'm not the Japanese netter ;-), but are you familiar with _Kwaidan_
(1964; dir. Masaki Kobayashi; photog. Yoshio Miyajima)?  It should be
widely available in subtitled form.  One of the four stories in this film
bears a passing resemblance to your Chinese ghost story.

Cheers
	Claude


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From: samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden)
Subject: Re: Ouija Boards
Organization: Rick's Home-Grown Un*x
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:04:44 GMT

garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes:
>and I just sat and stared at our makeshift "board". It was then that the
>glass started moving- without anyone touching it. I'd say it slid about 4 
>inches in a straight line, and at a constant speed.
>   Needless to say, this unsettled me quite a bit. The table was level, and
>I was quite sober at the time. 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. 
 
Hmm.  If this happened on a table _cloth_ you've got yourself quite
a story.  On reasonably smooth surfaces where water can stand in
beads, this is actually a common phenomenon.  My hypothesis is that
air inside (or under -- this works with hollow-bottomed glasses
rightside up too) expands due to slight warming (as from handling 
th glass), enough to balance the weight of the glass,
which can `float' on the bead of water which it drags along with it.
Then imperceptible surface tilt or even air currents can move it.


-- 
 
samw@bucket.rain.com (Sam Warden) -- and not a mere Device.
 
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From: iguana@nmt.edu (Shawn Clever)
Subject: Re: Ouija Boards
Organization: New Mexico Tech
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 04:29:07 GMT

I don't know about this.... I am trying to get over an (irrational?) fear of
these things.  My own personal belief is that spirits can exist, and if that
is possible, that there should be ways to contact them.  I kind of think of 
the Ouija as a "telephone" to the spirit world.  Nothing more than that.  
It's kinda like a knife or a gun.  All three items can be used for 
constructive or destructive purposes.  It isn't the board that is evil, it 
is the malevolent spirit on the other side.  

The real problem, as Avital Ronell says, is not knowing who is at the other
end of the line.  It is curious, though, how an item so shrouded in mystery,
disinformation, fear, and negative imagery can exist and be mass-produced
as a game.   Possibly a more thorough knowledge of where it comes from
and how it was used in the past will give more clues to the unusual 
experiences people have using it.  

Anyone got any more on this??


Shawn Clever
(iguana@jupiter.nmt.edu)
From: cla04@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A.T. Fear)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: College Ghosts
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:48:54 GMT
Organization: University of Keele, England


Sorry I know nothing of the Everlasting Club, though I too would be
eager to learn. There is a species of Hellfire Club at Brasenose College
which went it dines always leaves a 13th seat vacant for the devil. The
chapel there has suffered at least one act of satanic desecration in the
last ten years. I also remember a story about a haunted room in Magdalen in the corridor
of rooms which run above the lodge I think. Bloody footsteps were said
to appear in it, leading to the girl living their vacating it. Although
this tale did appear in Cherwell it's rumoured that the college applied
pressure to stop the story going further (I know that sounds like a
conspiracy theory, but that's how the story goes) and that eventually
the College chaplain performed some sort of exorcism. There were no
tales of reappearance in my last three years in Oxford.

Andy
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From: garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson)
Subject: Re: a ghost called Mary Worth
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:45:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.060057.1@fnalni.fnal.gov> janosi@fnalni.fnal.gov writes:
>Have any of you ever heard of a ghost called Mary Worth?  Well, this is the 

I read about this one in one of those "urban legend" books by _____ _____
(forgot his name). I tried it a few times and it didn't work, but just
thinking about the possibility is enough to freak me out. BTW wasn't
there a comic strip called "Mary Worth"? Any connection?
-- 
Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
From: mark@trillian.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Ouija boards
Date: 8 Sep 1992 15:48:24 GMT
Organization: Simulacron I

My two aunts who, at the time, were living in Florida.  Loved to use
the Ouija board.  Every night or so they would get it out and start
asking it questions.  One night, they were sitting around trying to
think of a question to ask the board when the pointer began to sharply
vibrate under their fingers.  The pointer began to actually jump up
and down with short hops as if to try to emphasize something it was
trying to say.  All at once it began to race around the board and to
spell out "N-I-C-E-G-I-R-L-S-D-O-N-T-S-M-O-K-E" over and over.  After
about four repititions of this the pointer zipped off the board and
skittered across the floor.  Both aunts smoked heavily (and still do)
but they don't play the Ouija board anymore.

A totally true family occurrance.
From: v122pewm@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (C.S. Flunky)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Request info: Dudleytown, Conn.
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:13:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41



	I have recently heard of a ghost town in Connecticut called 
Dudleytown.  It apparently has a very strange history dating back about 
200 years.  Does anyone know anything about this place or the Dudley family
that founded it?


						Thanks,
						    Brian LaBrake
						    v122pewm@ubvms
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From: mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us (Patrick McCarthy)
Subject: Re: arm ripped off
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:59:10 GMT

In article <1992Sep6.204858.12421@news.nd.edu> () writes:
>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?

This sounds like a variation of a story we used to tell at camp.  The
gimmick is to tell the story near the start of the campfire ghost story
session, then have someone who's in on the plan quietly slip away later,
then walk near the campsite swinging a flashlight so as to look like a
railway lantern, thereby scaring the sh*t out of the new guys.

Another version has the railway worker replaced by a copper miner (we
used to camp in the Sierras where copper mines are pretty common).  The
miner supposedly got his hands caught in an ore crusher, shortly thereafter
dying from blood loss.  As before, one of the guys wanders by later, with
his hands covered with the glowing green stuff that's inside those plastic
"glow sticks".

As far as I know, neither story has any basis in fact; they're both 
fabricated purely for effect.

 - Pat
mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us
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From: mcline@terapin.com (Matthew Cline)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: A voice upstairs
Date: 6 Sep 92 19:20:03 PST
Organization: BBS

        This happened to me some time ago, when I was about 10-12: I woke up in
the middle of the night and heard a voice whispering "Joshua" (my brothers
name) over and over again.  I got up to try and find where it was comming from.
 I remember figuring that it must be coming from upstairs, because it got
louder as I aproached the stairway, and got quiter as I moved away.  I also
figured that I couldn't be having an auditory hallucination, because if I was
the volume of the voice wouldn't be varying in the realistic way it was.  So I
went to the stairway and turned on the light to illuminate it, and the voice
immeadiatly went quite.  I turned the light back off, but the voice didn't come
back.  I waited there for a little while, and then went back to bed and went
back to sleep.
        When I woke up in the morning, at first I thought that it must have
been a dream.  But it didn't feel like it was a dream, and it didn't seem that
if I was having a dream that I would be thinking so rationaly.  For reason I
stated above, it didn't seem like it could be an auditory hallucination.  Then
I figured that it must have been a dream, because during the entire thing I
wasn't scared in the least.  I argued back and forth with myself and couldn't
come to any good awnser.  I asked my parents and my brother if they had heard
anything, and they said they hadn't.  Whatever it was, nothing like that has
ever happened again.

Matthew Cline
mcline@terapin.com
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From: jim@apsicc.aps.edu (frost...)
Subject: Re: Scariest movie
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 92 06:30:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
Distribution: na
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <Btu631.Izs@csi.compuserve.com>, dzecchini@csi.compuserve.com writes...
>>>You wanted a list of the scariest movies- here is a list of my 3 faves:
>>>
>>How about watching Terminator at 3AM, in an empty, dark house, when you 
> 
>Have to cast my personal vote for The Shining.  At least off the top
>of my head.
> 
>Best movie I've seen at 2:00 AM with the lights off was probably Gothic.
>(Although I've watched The Shining like that a few times, too <g>)
>-- 
>         David "Maelstrom" Zecchini | "It may be better to be a live jackal
>       dzecchini@csi.compuserve.com | than a dead lion, but it is better still
> dzecchin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | to be a live lion.  And usually easier."
>           maelstro@bluemoon.rn.com | -Robert A. Heinlein
======================================================================
Hello All,
  My own candidate for a movie to make you keep your lights on would be
"The Entity". It is based on a documented event that ocurred in California
and on a series of occurances that have been recorded mostly in religious
sources for a thousand years.
							Jim
======================================================================
   We are rapidly ascending through prosperity to poverty...  Twain
                    Internet:    jim@apsicc.aps.edu
       Albuquerque Public Schools - Instructional System Manager 
======================================================================
From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ghost writing...
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:25:09 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University

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! :)

Morgana
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From: murison@sscl.uwo.ca
Subject: Ouija Book
Organization: Social Science Computing Laboratory
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:45:28 GMT

I am very interested in ouija boards and have enjoyed reading the 
stories on this topic in this newsgroup.  The reason for this post is
to ask if anyone has ever heard of a book called, "Ouija : The 
Deadliest Game"(or something similar).  If anyone has, I'd be interested
in knowing what the contents is like, and where I can get this book.
Naturally, the copy in my local library has been ripped off. Thanks in 
advance and keep on posting those ouija stories!
--
JohnBoy
"Stop tickling me, you're scaring my waterbuffalo."
From: creeper@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Wolfgang Kies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: arm ripped off
Date: 14 Sep 92 01:58:29 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center


	That story sounds alot like the one That Bill Murray's Character
told everyone around a campfire in the movie Meatballs. At least that;s
what I think the movie was called. I do know for sure it was Bill Murray
and that   he was playing some sort of camp couselor.
*************************************************************************
| He remained motionless for a moment, and then sighed deeply. "No rest |
| for the weary, " he mumbled. He sat on the edge of the rumpled bed and|
| hefted the stainless steel Colt Python, wondering for the hundreth    |
| time how much of an edge the six silver .357 magnum wadcutters in its |
| cylinder really gave him.                                             |
*************************************************************************	
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From: st1pj@rosie.uh.edu (Saucedo, Delfino B.)
Subject: Re: Ouija Boards
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 01:35:00 GMT

In article <qx6y9gp@rpi.edu>, garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes...
>I know that a lot of times ouija movements are forced, but I have had a few
>weird experiences with them. The most perplexing occurred when a friend and
>I were trying it with a homemade setup: little pieces of paper with letters
>spread out on the kitchen table, and an upside down glass for a pointer. I
>know, I know- pretty cheesy, but we didn't have a board and we figured that
>the spirits wouldn't care. (?)
>   Anyway, the lights in the room were out, with a candle providing the only
>light (not to mention a spooky atmosphere). We had moistened the rim of the
>glass with water to let it slide more easily, but were not getting any 
>promising messages. My friend got up and left the room to go to the bathroom,
>and I just sat and stared at our makeshift "board". It was then that the
>glass started moving- without anyone touching it. I'd say it slid about 4 
>inches in a straight line, and at a constant speed.
>   Needless to say, this unsettled me quite a bit. The table was level, and
>I was quite sober at the time. 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. 
>-- 
>Matt Garretson                       :-)                          garrem@rpi.edu
I had a similar experience with a home made board.  Some friends and I were
meissing around with one and theuy asked if I wanted to "call" someone. 
Having little faith in them, I said sure, call "Becky".  Becky was the 
mother of a childhood friend.  She was murdered some years back.  After some nons
nonsense responses, I asked "Becky" the name of her daughter.  Neither of these
girls with me knew who "Becky" was.  The piece spelled out "Kate", and I did
not move it... or not consiously at least.  Kate was the name of her daughter.
Maybe there's some subconsious something that made me move it.  I don't think 
so.  Anyway, it was just too evil and I won't touch a board again... that's
just one thing too wicked to be messed with.
				0- Marsha
* A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission 
					-Neil Peert (Peart, I meamn) TYPOS!

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From: no-one@nowhere.nada.com
Subject: ignore - this is a test
Reply-To: no-one@nowhere.nada.com
Organization: none
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:34:53 GMT












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From: jmoody@netcom.com (Jim Moody)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Scariest movie
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:41:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

OK, I agree with all of those...the Shining, The Entity, etc....but I think
Anyone of these lists needs to include "The Haunting of Hill House"
Had some B grade movie stars, the only one I remember was Russ Tamblyn in a
non dancing role.

Jim Moody


-- 
Jim Moody	jmoody@netcom.com	(415) 978-3289
===================================================================
    "The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question"
         "nor is it bought by going to amazing places"*
                                                          Rumi
==================================================================     
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From: cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu (SSP Guy...)
Subject: Re: Freaks
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 02:59:15 GMT


heh. Sounds like the Rocky Horror Picture Show... (totally non-topical)

--
| Chris Shepherd Starving Programmer  | cd119@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu |
|    Ask me about Impasse //gs        | cshepher@nyx.cs.du.edu      |
From: Ann.Feeney@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ann Feeney)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Re: Second Half of College Story
Date: 5 Sep 92 18:45:53 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

>>
>>  When I walked into his store and asked him if he knew any psychics, he 
>>looked at me as if I had called him a name.  He reached under the counter 
>>and handed me a card for a psychic.  "This chick was in here yesterday and 
>>gave me that card.  She said she thought I might need it later.  Take it 
>>and get out of here."
>>
>>I called the number on the card, and the lady set a time to go through the 
>>house with me.  I invited Jane, and she jumped at the chance.
>>
>
>I've always wondered why psychics need cards -- or phones for that
>matter.  Seems to me they should know when to show up.........
>
>:-) :-) :-)!
>
>
>-- 
>Tom Streeter                                |   streeter@cs.unca.edu
>Dept. of Mass Communication                 |   704-251-6227
>University of North Carolina at Asheville   |   Opinions expressed here are
>Asheville, NC 28804                         |   mine alone.

Ever read Stephen Pile's _The Incomplete Book of Failures_?
It has "The Worst Psychic," in which a psychic fair is held,
and a reporter asks if they'll be back next year.
"Oh, we don't know."


--
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