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Subject: Re: college ghosts
From: jwr4@aol.com (JWR4)
Date:
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bveihman@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu.
asked for any college ghost stories.
I have a couple of short
ones.
I am from NC and went to UNC
at
Foust my freshman and
sophomore year. The dorm was named after
the
daughter of the Dean of
Women's
the story goes Mary Foust, I
forget her last name, was scandalous.
She
actually had a car and went
to town at night. Remember it was the
20's.
Finally after just
graduating she did get married and became pregnant.
She and the baby died in
delivery. So in honor of her the dorm
was named
Mary Foust. The dorm mother we had at the time, this was
1982, had a
little girl, about 18 months
old. One night she heard the girl
crying.
She went to check and the
baby was sound asleep. Others heard the
crying
too. No one could explain it and so it was rumored
that it was the dead
baby of Mary Foust. A friend of mine later said he witnessed a
pretty
young girl walking on the
lawn in front of the dorm. He thought he
would
stand in the window a while
and check her out. Then she sank into
the
ground and disappeared.
A Ouija story: Some very reliable friends, one of whom I
have very
close contact with to this
day had this experience. They would all
take
turns getting on the ouija
and it basically acted the way it was supposed
to, until this one girl, who
professed herself an atheist, got on it.
Forgive me but I am not into
this ouija board business and do not know the
lingo. Is it called the needle? The thing you move around. I'm sorry if
this offends anyone. Anyway when she held the needle it shook, and
shook
until finally it took off
sailing across the floor like a hockey puck and
slamming into the front
door, hard enough for it to be heard down the
hall. They put the board away after that.
Of course I also knew a guy who got onto a
board and concentrated on
the words "Screw
You." the whole time. That is all
it would spell no
matter what questions were
asked.
jwr4@aol.com
Subject: Re: Anything out
there?
From: Robert Lee Carson III
<carsonrl@taft.law.uc.edu>
Date: Thu,
Message-ID:
<Pine.SUN.3.91.950427222718.8020A-100000@taft.law.uc.edu>
Try the following
selections:
"Mountain Ghost
Stories" by Randy Russell and Janet Barnett,
"This Haunted
Southland" by Nancy Roberts,
and my personal
favorites, any volume by Judge Charles
Harry
Whedbee--published by John
F. Blair of
I also have it on good
authority that the Greenriver Plantation,
in
Happy Hunting
On
> Anyone know of any
"documented" hauntings in the
> Preferably around the
> a book and this area
seems to be pretty quiet. Maybe I just
haven't
> asked the right people.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Melusine
>
>
Subj: Blackbeard's ghost
Date: 95-05-22
From: zzsauvignec@acad.winthrop.edu
To: ghost-stories@netcom.com
From: zzsauvignec@acad.winthrop.edu (Craig M. Sauvigne)
To: ghost-stories@netcom.com
Just off the coast of
known as the Outer Banks.
The southern-most island is
north of that one is
hide-outs of the pirate
Blackbeard, often called the most feared pirate of
all. He chose this place
because he could navigate the channels around the
sandbars better than anyone
else. He eluded capture many times because of
his knowledge of the waters.
After years and years of
piracy, Captain Maynard, a British naval officer,
went after Blackbeard with
two ships full of men. A fierce battle took
place and eventually
Blackbeard was killed. Once he was dead, the men checked
Blackbeard's body and found
7 gunshot wounds and 22 sword wounds including
one cut across his neck from
ear to ear. Once the battle was ended, Maynard
beheaded the dead pirate and
hung his head from the yardarm of his ship as
a warning to other pirates.
The headless body was thrown overboard and
legends say the body swam
around the ship 7 times before sinking.
Blackbeard supposedly buried
part of his vast treasure on
Many people have searched
(in vain) for it. Many treasure hunters have been
scared off the trail of the
treasure by what they claim is a headless ghost.
They believe the ghost is
that of Blackbeard. Some say he is searching for
his head while others say he
is protecting his treasure. Either way, many
have claimed to see the
headless ghost of the pirate Blackbeard.
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Subject: Haunted Room at
Sunnybank Inn
From: aegis@mindspring.com
(Dallas Denny)
Date:
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This is a true ghost story.
I and twelve (female, or
nearly so) friends got together in
Sunnybank Inn, where were
were staying, is an old inn. The first
time I was there, the Elmer, the
innkeeper, told us that one of the rooms was haunted. He said in the 15 years he had lived there,
the ghost had appeared only six or seven times. He had slept in the room
several times in hopes of seeing here, but never had. But guests would describe seeing a woman, or
having a dream, that was always the same-- a woman would be standing over them
on the bed,
obviously concerned about
them. Elmer said that a woman with a
young child had died in the room, and that's who he thought it was-- she was
checking on her infant.
I publish a journal called
Chrysalis, and one issue was about spirituality as it relates to
transsexualism. One of the articles was
by a Wiccan woman, and it described a ritual to invoke the goddess. It was to be done on a full moon, and
required moon oil & moon incense, candles, salt, water, and of course the
proper words. I knew there would be a
full moon, and brought the
materials and the magazine
(which had the words.) I told the group that I was interested in doing the
ritual, and that anyone who wished was welcome to come. I thought only a few people would, but
everyone did.
My background, BTW, is
Christian. I am not a Wiccan, but my
personal belief is much more in line with Wiccans and Native Americans than
Christianity. I had no problem doing the
ritual, even though I had never done such a thing before, and might never
again.
To end the story, I did the
ritual, and the ghost manifested that night.
One person saw her, and one felt her-- as she was going to bed, she felt
a hand placed firmly on her chest. She
was not frightened, but did not want to open her eyes, as she was afraid the
experience would come to an end. And as for me, I dreamed of the goddess that
night.
No one was afraid of the
ghost; it was clearly benign.
There were a lot of other
strange things that happened that weekend-- for instance, we did a reading with
Medicine Cards. The first card was a
bat, and the last, a hummingbird, and we not only saw those animals in that
order, but in a very strange way (we were walking through the woods and the bad
came thrashing by on the ground. I've
never seen a bat like that).
Anyway, just a nothing
alt.folklore.ghost.story
