Spooky stories for Halloween?

[mandyballantyne]

I know we have a supernatural thread before, but anyone got any spooky tales to tell??

Mandy

[Headfry]

a little off tread, I hope nobody minds...
any ideas on good old spooky B&W films. We have Hounds of the Baskervills but would like to ring the changes this year. We get the treats ready for the young kiddies that call, turn the lights out and watch scary old films. Fab!

[mandyballantyne]

Sounds like a great plan Headfry!

Trip to hire a dvd I think, that's if I get time

Mandy

[Headfry]

gotta be lights out, glass or cup of something nice......as well as scary film!

[zebedee]

I know we have a supernatural thread before, but anyone got any spooky tales to tell??

Mandy

Supposed to be a true story, this. Round about 1870 something, the Austrian Emperor was hosting a banquet for a lot of dignitaries. The British Envoy was invited. When his carriage reached the bottom of the steps to the palace, the footmen went down to escort him in. As they went down the steps, they saw, underneath the carriage, the feet and legs of the Envoy as he got out of the carriage and walked toward the front. As the footmen went round to greet him, he had disappeared. An immediate search was held, but no trace was ever found of him.

Weird, eh?

[Headfry]

I was at a dinner party with some dear friends and whilst sitting in the lounge I saw one of them get glasses out of the cabinet.
Some time later I was asked by Jackie if I would mind getting the glasses out
?????
I said someones already done it........ nope, the glasses were still in the cabinet. So I checked and they were!
To this day I am sure they were winding me up, and they are sure I am winding them up!
I know I saw someone take out the glasses.
My friend lived then in an old cottage in a small village in Essex.

[nick the grief]

a little off tread, I hope nobody minds...
any ideas on good old spooky B&W films. We have Hounds of the Baskervills but would like to ring the changes this year. We get the treats ready for the young kiddies that call, turn the lights out and watch scary old films. Fab!

"Night of the Demons" B&W with Dana Andrews in it excellent and the "demon" effect was sort of double exposing with a steam engine ..... far more effective than all this ere CG stuff these days.

Or how about the good old fave, "Carrie"

[NOG]

I once lived in a land of Space and Plenty where the hospitals were clean and you could get a bed where elders were respected and buses were not covered in dents and scrallings. Then I woke up one day living in a overcrowed slum and could be put in prison for saying the 50s were beter than now......but I havent moved.

Now that is scary

[rustylady]

I once lived in a land of Space and Plenty where the hospitals were clean and you could get a bed where elders were respected and buses were not covered in dents and scrallings. Then I woke up one day living in a overcrowed slum and could be put in prison for saying the 50s were beter than now......but I havent moved.

Now that is scary

Hi NOG, I lived in that land too. Same country, different area (South Devon). We used to leave our doors unlocked, the money on the kitchen table in separate piles for the butcher, the milkman and the insurance man to collect. No-one took anything that didn't belong to them, the children were safe to play out in the street or the lanes.

I worry now for my grandchildren - I wish they could know the sort of childhood I had.

[Headfry]

From a young age I was free to roam the creeks and marshes on my doorstep! would not do it now let alone let my niece (7yrears) go there. Such a crying shame as i loved the solitude and winter bleakness of those saltings even at a very young age!