From: jmarinel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jennifer L Marinello)
Subject: Ghost stories-mini series
Organization: The Ohio State University
        Oddly enough we have no ghosts in this building.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:21:23 GMT

Story number 2
Maria is my chilean stoner friend and according to her this story is true-but 
it could have been the beer talking or the mixed drinks talking or the weed 
talking in her case but I have talked to her since and she swears that she has 
seen an appartitio at her boyfriend's house.  She was staying at her boyfriends
old house and he was out of town.  She began to hear the dog crying and 
someones footsteps coming  up the stairs.  In her half conscious state she
thought it was her boyfriend.  Then it dawned on her that he was out of town.
This realization made her heart race and clutch the covers.  Suddenly she saw a
blue glowing figure at the door. It's head looked deformed somehow and it was 
staring at it's hands.  She thought that the ghost looked as though it had 
elephantitis. The ghost hovered close by her bed.  She decided that
he meant no harm so she tried very hard not to be afraid of it. Eventually it 
walked away.
        Granted Maria has done so many psychodelic drugs that her DNA must look 
like a macrame owl, but I believed her story.

Story number 3
Yesterday I told our student worker about this newsgroup and of course she had 
a story too.  Alison's grandmother lives in a big ancient house near East
Palestine Ohio. Her grandmother invited some relatives from England over to 
stay for two weeks with her.  They suddenly left after only half a week.  Now 
her grandmother always had a feeling that the place was haunted even though she
had never seen a ghost there.  Everynight at six PM her dog would sit at the 
bottom of the stairs and stare in to space.  His gaze would go from the top of 
the stairs to the bottom as if he were watching someone descend the staircase.
Later the house guests confided that the reason that they had left in such a
hurry before was because one of them had heard noises in the hallway and went
tocheck them out.  She saw the shadowy figure of a woman her hair was in a bun
and she was tiny.  The figure was going down the stairs.  Alison's grandmother 
decided to get to the bottom of this and asked her neighbor who occupied the 
house previously.  The old couple next door had lived there fro decades.  
Apparently a Doctor and his wife lived in the house. He was rather well off.  
He was the first in the area to own a car and he and his wife lived 
compfortably untill she fell down the stairs broke her neck and died.  The 
neighbor went on to say what a shame it was that she was such a nice lady.  The
neighbor used to go over and help the doctor's wife do the laundry because she 
was a dwarf and could not reach into the washer.

Alison shook her head.  "My grandma now says that grandpa haunts the house.  
When she goes to bed she will close the old sliding wooden doors in the living 
room downstairs and in the morning they will be open.  She also says that when 
she leaves the air conditioner on at night grandpa turns it off because in his 
life he was a miser and would have considered leaving an air conditioner on all
night would be an extravegant waste of money."
     Well there you have them my mini ghost stories-none of them personel but 
all of them true. :)  More fuel for the fire.
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