In 2006, a family is harassed by a malevolent poltergeist in their new home in California. Private home, Moreno Valley, California, and the Cascade Mountains,Oregon ' The Poltergeist/ Watch in the Wilderness' Next, the story of a police helicopter on a routine flight over Beutil Road near Louisville, Kentucky which may have come into contact with a UFO in 1993. In 1994, a ghost of a woman who appears totally naked provides a clue into the tragedy of a mother and son who went missing for 5 days while driving on Highway 50 by mile marker 16 near Placerville, California. Route 50, El Dorado County, California, and airspace over Jefferson County, Kentucky

Next, a mother and daughter relive an encounter in 2004 on a desolate dirt road where a local teenage girl died in a car crash.īullion Bend, U.S. In the series premiere, in 2008, Isabella, a 5-year-old girl's friendship with an invisible ghost named Emily turns ominous and puts her family in danger in their own home. Private home, Baltimore, Maryland, and Florida State Route 136, Live Oak, Florida She allegedly appears as a blue light floating around town, and people have reported hearing a woman looking for her baby and the rolling sound of wheels.' Emily the Imaginary Friend/ The Lost Girl' But on the day she was supposed to be questioned by the police, she poisoned herself. It was rumored that her ex-husband had her killed with Frannie's help, but Frannie claimed she wasn't involved in Katie's death. Her body was found later, along a nearby creek, with her head cut off. Frannie returned with the child, who was covered in blood, but without Katie. She was last seen leaving the house with Frannie and her child in a carriage. After an investigation, it turned out that she moved in with local prostitute Frannie Norton. She planned to move in with her cousin, but her family never heard from her.

In the early 1900s in Weatherford, Oklahoma, Katie DeWitt James left her home with her baby after she filed for divorce from her husband. This one's a regular murder mystery turned ghost story, according to Atlas Obscura. They're sure to spook any friends and family you invite to listen-beware!

Get ready to read these scary stories or save them for after dark to read dramatically with dim lighting and some eerie music in the background for full effect. Up on the East Coast in New York City, the Crying Lady has been reported to have been seen in The Dakota. Head north to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where the Crescent Hotel is alleged to be haunted by ghosts, and then over to Abbeville, Alabama, for the haunting of Huggin' Molly. Francisville, Louisiana, and you just might sight a ghost named Chloe on Myrtles Plantation. They're sure to add a thrilling scare to your Halloween season for everyone from teens to adults, and they are all a short read too. What's Halloween without scary stories to tell in the dark? Sure, you'll want to watch (or rewatch) your favorite Halloween movies and see all the witches and vampires, but you'll also need a dose of creepy in these 11 scary ghost stories from around the country (just as scary as one of these spooky ghost towns-field trip anyone?).

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