Creepy stories for Halloween

There are many stories that are creepy for Halloween. There's so many to list here so I'm sharing some of the pages of true creepy ghost stories. Various people have shared their strange chilling encounters of hauntings and ghosts. Do have a look through and enjoy being scared stiff of these stories.  

1. 12 Ghost stories for Halloween posted by Lauren Cahn at Reader's Digest. 

2. Halloween Hauntings: True Ghost stories by Kassandra Lamb at Misterio Press. 

3. 19 stories of people who lived in haunted houses by Megan Liscomb at Buzzfeed. 

4. 17 real ghost stories that will chill you to the bone by Sarah Lamire at Today.

5. 11 scary stories that will make you sleep with the light on by Nora Biette-Timmons at Jezebel. 

It's going to get darker and so put the light on if you're sharing ghost stories.

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Inassie monster

 

There is a lake monster in Japan called Inassie. It's found in the Lake Inawashiro also called "Heavenly Mirror Lake", which is picturesque. It isn't far from Fukushima, a creepy haunted location that was once thriving. That place experienced horror on a fateful day in 2011 after a string of disasters caused sad losses of life from an earthquake, then a tsunami and followed by a nuclear accident. This place is well known for ghosts and hauntings. It's been reported that strange shadows have been seen on the beach, while many taxi drivers have encountered spirits of the deceased who seem confused. Many of these stories are found in the book "Ghosts of the Tsunami" by Richard Lloyd Parry. 

Inassie is a sea monster found in Lake Inawashiro, first seen in 1993. Described as 13 metres long, and resembling a plesiosaur. A plesiosaur was a marine reptile that comes from the age of dinosaurs, who thrived in the sea for a very long time from the Mesozoic era up until the Cretaceous era. They went extinct during the K-Pg event (a mass extinction caused by an impact on Earth 66 million years ago that wiped out 75% of species). 

Bones of a plesiosaur were found in the location of Lake Inawashiro, causing people to be convinced that this is the identity of the Inassie being real, although a member of its family. Someone was doubtful, as a cryptid researcher named Takeshi Nakazawa didn't share the same enthusiasm, and pointed out that Plesiosaur became extinct 66 million years ago while the Lake Inawashiro was formed only 20 thousand years ago. Sceptics have said the likeliest for the Inassie to be is a turtle. 

Many have said that this and loads of other lake monsters worldwide look like plesiosaurs. Another weird story in 1977 when a rotting dead 30ft unknown creature was found by Japanese fishermen. They took photos of it and then threw it back into the sea as they didn't want to contaminate the fish. Many have said that the gruesome corpse was a basking shark but after seeing the creature's remains, and that of a shark, it doesn't add up. After so many years people are still debating about what it is. This is called the Zuiyo Maru carcass.   

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The Women with Cat's Eyes

I wanted to share this curious folk tale from New Mexico about cats, witches and eyeballs! It's called "The Women with Cat's Eyes" and found in "Tone the Bell Easy" book by J. Frank Dobie. Originally published in 1932, a collection of folk stories from Texas and Mexico. 

It begins with a man who fell in love with a pretty girl named Pilar with green eyes. He wanted to marry her but he wasn't keen on sharing his life with a girl whos' creepy sister named Fefe was always there. Fefe had brown eyes and he wanted to date Pilar and not her sister Fefe. So he remained friends with both sisters and for many years he visited them in their house. He played cards with them and over the years it became routine, until one day (night) things changed. 

He heard rumours about the sisters being witches. Not interested in that, he visited the sisters but they never answered the door. He found their place empty but for two pairs of eyeballs near the small fireplace. He lifted them up using an iron spoon, and found one set of eyes were green and the other brown. He flung them into the fire and watched them dance up and down like ping pong balls. Both sets of eyeballs tuned black in the flames and looked like walnuts. 

Two cats arrived hissing at the man, and they tried to attack him. He made the sign of the cross and left the house. The following night he visited the home of the sisters, and they let him in. There were the cats hissing at him, but this time they lacked eyes! The two women though, they had different eyes now, and their eyes were the glowing eyes of cats!

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Hunters moon

The Hunters Moon is ominously named as the full moon for October. It's often believed that the October moon is a time for hunting and bringing meat for the cold months ahead. Werewolves are connected to the full moon in traditional folklore, as well as in ancient legends, but what makes 2024 October moon so different to other October moons is that this one will be a supermoon. 

This October 2024 hunters moon will be a supermoon in the constellation of Aries. This should bring about aggression and a lot of passion. The full moon also has an affect on people, who are not werewolves. The police have released statements that there's more criminal activity during a full moon. Why is this? Some theorise it's a throwback to primal instincts when mammals were forced to be nocturnal during the age of dinosaurs. Others believe it's more esoteric and magical.

Some believe that it's psychological. The full moon does has an effect on the tides, on nocturnal animals and more. Full moons have an impact on sleep, and may cause sleep deprivation and erratic sleeping. Full moons are also believed to have an influence on heart rate and cardiovascular conditions. Some found full moons reduce blood pressure. 

Information on this finding at Healthline link here.  

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Dog in the tree

 

"Spirit of dog" by Rayne

There was the horrific case of a dog in a tree. It's demise was sad, very cruel and heart breaking. Loggers working in the deep woods of Georgia in 1980, selected a chestnut tree to cut down. The men thought that it would be just another job to do, as cutting up trees can be hard, adventurous and even dangerous. They anticipated only an easy day of this, perhaps they guessed they might only disturb wildlife with their activity. They knew about nature as they're experienced, well aware of predators and venomous snakes. However, what they didn't know, was cutting that particular chestnut tree would shock them.

(It's worth mentioning that chestnut trees were considered sacred amongst Native American tribes. Chestnut trees grow edible nuts and medicinal leaves, and can live up to 700 years. There were many chestnut trees throughout the region until many were chopped down by colonials, for the purpose of using the wood as building materials. Chestnut wood itself doesn't rot as it's full of tannins. Chestnut trees are different to the inedible Horse chestnut trees).

The dog was a healthy redbone coon breed, that was often chasing and running through woods. These dogs are used for hunting, and this one found prey. He was a good boy, and sometimes he wandered off to try catching wild animals. He located his target and watched as the small creature slipped inside a hollow of a chestnut tree. The dog finally believed he had it now and he quickly ran after it.

Back to the loggers, who had their tree down, carefully, ready to cut open in sections. Some of the men noticed visible claw marks on the insides of the tree. They made a further cut on the log, and the chestnut tree unleashed horror. Staring at the men, who were doing a difficult job anyway, was a frightening creature that gazed at them from within the chestnut tree. It turned out to be a mummified redbone coon dog who had been there since the 1960's. The dog chased it's prey and found itself stuck in the chestnut tree with nowhere to exit. He perished inside the tree, which was his prison and then his tomb. 

This dog is on display at Southern Forest World museum in Waycross, Georgia. Poor thing.

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Spooky quicks October 2024

Here is a few paranormal related news stories that I wanted to catch up on and mention also. As we're now in October, the veil is lowering, which means that there will be darker hours as the sunlight is less, making nights grow longer, and a time when it's believed spirits are more active.

There's been an internet sensation about a certain natural phenomena that seems to be unusual. These are strange looking optical illusions in clouds that resemble humans, angels, gods, giants and spirits. The New York Post recently mentioned a weird looking cloud formation that was caught on camera, and it shows a shining giant humanoid figure walking on top of a cloud. Many suggest this is simply natural and not unexplained at all even though the clouds move in the opposite direction to the walking sky person! Check this video out on Youtube: Mysterious cloud person

Next in Morelia, Mexico, a Virgin Mary statue in a church cried tears of blood. According to some news outlets, this has been happening since June 2024. That particular statue is Our Lady of Guadalupe, with crowds of religious people visiting. The Catholic Church are investigating it but it's not the first time this has happened before. More about weeping statues at Wikipedia. 

Strange creatures now: In Argentina, a farmer was violently attacked by a goblin and he was left with bruises. The goblin was caught on camera. Check this out here: Goblin clip Youtube Planeta TV.

Clear shining metallic UFO pictured in the sky above Xiamen city in China. Go and see this for yourself by clicking on the link posted by Nelson Valdez on X. 

An Australian swimmer named Duncan Roberts was taking a dip in the famous lake Loch Ness in Scotland when he encountered a mysterious creature in the water. He was doing a charity swim there, in water that was murky and dark, when he found himself being nudged and bashed by something large underwater, but the actual creature itself is unknown. He didn't see anything because his eyes were closed while swimming under the water.

That will be all for now.

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