# "There'll be scary ghost stories" ?

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**Created:** [December 10, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therell-be-scary-ghost-stories/563637 "2010-12-10T06:15:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therell-be-scary-ghost-stories/563637/7 "2010-12-10T13:01:09Z")

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I just wanted to add another “Christmas Ghost Story” not yet mentioned (even in the older threads) – Dickens’ last Christmas Book is **The Man Who Haunted Himself** , a sort of retread _Christmas Carol_. (One year I read all of Dickens’ Christmas Books. Although I _love_ the original _Christmas Carol_, it was sheer torture to work my way through the others. )

By the way, a related ghost question – In Gordon Lightfoot’s “If you could read my mind”, he talks about “an old time movie about a ghost from a wishing well”. The only old-time movie with a ghost (ghosts, actually) from a well is the Abbott and Costello flick **The Time of their Lives**. If that’s the one he meant, it’s completely against the imagery he’s trying to set up. Are there any other movies with wishing well ghosts?

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