# Any genuine ghost stories...? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484 "2008-03-07T19:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_s_Biggest_Caner)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/1 "2008-03-07T19:00:32Z")
Anyone have any genuine first-hand ghost stories? Stuff they’ve experienced personally or perhaps by a reputable relative/friend? I’m a skeptic myself but who doesn’t love a good ghost story… ? :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/2 "2008-03-07T19:19:26Z")
There was a recent thread (no more than 3 months old), but I’m darned that I can find it, even after using “scary”, “haunted”, and “ghost” as search terms… ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/3 "2008-03-07T19:26:20Z")
I know a good Ghost story, but it ends with butt cancer. ---
**Author:** ![World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_s_Biggest_Caner)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/4 "2008-03-07T19:41:28Z")
Well if anyone can find the thread - it’s dark outside, I’m in a house on my own and I bought a new candleholder today… [QUOTE=ChiefScott] I know a good Ghost story, but it ends with butt cancer. [/QUOTE] Am I missing something…? Are you offering a joke, a spooky tale, life-anecdote or all three? ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/5 "2008-03-07T19:56:14Z")
Supersonic whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/6 "2008-03-07T19:56:42Z")
[QUOTE=World’s Biggest Caner] Well if anyone can find the thread - it’s dark outside, I’m in a house on my own and I bought a new candleholder today… Am I missing something…? Are you offering a joke, a spooky tale, life-anecdote or all three? [/QUOTE] Maybe a reference to Patrick Swayze’s recently announced cancer? ---
**Author:** ![World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_s_Biggest_Caner)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/7 "2008-03-07T20:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Maybe a reference to Patrick Swayze’s recently announced cancer? [/QUOTE] Ah yeah, the film guy - should’ve paid more attention to that capital G… Well I wish him all the best and hope he makes a swift and full recovery. I guess I should have specified that I was interested in “ghost” stories about “spectral phenomena” rather than Hollywood movies that have the same name. Glad that that’s been cleared up - don’t want any further misunderstandings… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/8 "2008-03-07T20:09:48Z")
Oh, we’ll find something to poke fun at… ---
**Author:** ![World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_s_Biggest_Caner)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/9 "2008-03-07T20:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefScott] Oh, we’ll find something to poke fun at… [/QUOTE] I thought Swayze was like some mythic Love-God to you guys - have you no self-reproach…? Anway, you’re supposed to be scaring me… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/10 "2008-03-07T22:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=ChiefScott] I know a good Ghost story, but it ends with butt cancer. [/QUOTE] So did J. B. S. Haldane: [I wish I had the voice of Homer To sing of rectal carcinoma…](http://qurlyjoe.bu.edu/cducibs/ostpoem.html) ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/11 "2008-03-07T22:46:31Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] There was a recent thread (no more than 3 months old), but I’m darned that I can find it, even after using “scary”, “haunted”, and “ghost” as search terms… [/QUOTE] Maybe [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449896)? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/12 "2008-03-07T23:07:51Z")
[QUOTE=World’s Biggest Caner] Anyone have any genuine first-hand ghost stories? Stuff they’ve experienced personally or perhaps by a reputable relative/friend? I’m a skeptic myself but who doesn’t love a good ghost story… ? :eek: :eek: :eek: [/QUOTE] Here let me ring the bell: **Lekatt Lekatt Lekatt** The short bus should be along any minute now. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/13 "2008-03-08T00:14:37Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Maybe [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449896)? [/QUOTE] [Jack Sparrow]That’s the one[/Jack Sparrow] ---
**Author:** ![World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/779978/32.png) [@World\_s\_Biggest\_Caner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_s_Biggest_Caner)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-genuine-ghost-stories/440484/14 "2008-03-08T00:18:13Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] Maybe [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=449896)? [/QUOTE] Thanks! I’ll have to read it tomorrow as I’ve got to go to bed now and well, I need to sleep…! :eek: