True Short Ghost Stories
From LoveToKnow Paranormal
Do you enjoy true short ghost stories? Many people do, and they can be found in both books and on the Internet. Whether you like spiritual stories or scary stories, there are plenty of them for everyone.
True Spiritual Ghost Stories
People who want to believe that our loved ones can reach us from beyond the grave love spiritual ghost stories. There are many of these types of stories, beginning with the most famous one about Jesus walking out of his tomb. Whether he was a ghost or a physical embodiment has always been debated, but it serves as one of the oldest true short ghost stories ever told.
Spiritual ghost stories serve several purposes: they can help us deal with the grief felt when we've lost a loved one, they let us believe that our loved ones are indeed in a better place, and most importantly, they give us hope that there is life after death.
There are many places to find spiritual ghost stories. The following are just a few:
True Scary Ghost Stories
Who doesn't enjoy a really good ghost story? In the United States, folklore is chock-full of them. Why do we love to be scared? Apparently some of us are adrenaline junkies, while others simply enjoy reading stories that are too strange to be true. Whatever your reason for enjoying these stories, there are dozens to choose from. The following are just a sampling of true, scary ghost stories:
- The Haunted Queen Mary Ship
- The Haunted Stanley Hotel
- The Myrtles Plantation
- Tombstone, Arizona Ghost Stories
- The Black Dog of Hanging Hills
- Scary Ghost Stories on Amazon.com
More True Short Ghost Stories
If you don't have time to read a lengthy ghost story, shorter stories, available in an easy-to-read format, may satisfy your curiosity. There have been many books written about ghosts from all around the world. Favorites include those that focus on particular states, those about hauntings in castles, and of course, those written about graveyards and haunted houses.
The following are good sources of short ghost stories that can be read in one sitting:
- When the Ghost Screams: True Stories of Victims who Haunt by Leslie Rule
- A Dying Man Never Lies: A Collection of True Ghost Stories by Eathel Ann Kerperien
- Our Haunted Lives: True Ghost Encounters by Jeff Belanger
- Don't Call Them Ghosts: The Spirit Children of Fontaine Manse – A True Story by Kathleen McConnell
- Ghosts of Gettysburg: Spirits, Apparitions and Haunted Places of the Battlefield by Mark Nesbitt
- The Lively Ghosts of Ireland by Hans Holzer
- Animal Phantoms: True Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith
- True Ghost Stories That Teach by Lonnie Dai Zovi
Share Your Ghost Story
Do you have a ghost story to tell? Maybe you've had an experience that wasn't easily explained. Perhaps you've witnessed unusual things in your home, or have seen what you believe to be an actual ghost. LTK wants to hear about your own true ghost stories. Feel free to share and discuss them in the comments box below.
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