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4 Weird Ghost Stories Direct From Real Life

October 29, 2022 by Icy Sedgwick 10 Comments

These 4 weird ghost stories come directly from my own experience. I can't see if they happened, or I just imagined them, but read them with an open mind...

Halloween is a perfect time of year to tell ghost stories. Lord knows I have enough weird ghost stories among my free short stories. But I ran a poll on Twitter, and a whopping 90% of the respondents on Twitter wanted me to talk about my own weird experiences, rather than explore a traditional ghost […]

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Filed Under: Folklore Tagged With: #FolkloreThursday, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, halloween, real life, weird ghost stories

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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