Do You Tell Scary Stories Around The Campfire

[Grandpa]

No campfire is complete without;
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
by the men who moil for gold
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
that would make your blood run cold

The northern Lights have seen queer sights
but the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee

[Pathfinder1]

Ah, yes, the Cremation of Sam McGee sure does bring back memories.

I've had my boat on "Lake LeBarge". Not a "real" lake, but a wide, deep, Canadian section of the Yukon River, where I once camped. It was there that I met the last Yukon River sternwheeler riverboat pilot. And an interesting fellow, and his wife, were.

[Woods]

No I don't because I don't like them. When I was a kid I couldn't handle them because I stood up all night afterwards listening to the sounds and picturing them in my head.

[Geezer]

I used to tell my kids the story of Peter Marlow who took in a wounded vagrant who was missing an ear after the civil war. While he was out in the fields working he heard gunshots and screams coming from his house. He went back and found his wife and son killed and the vagrant missing. He hunted down the vagrant and tied him to a tree and every day would go out and cut off another limb until he died. Then peter marlow killed himself and still walks these woods today looking for the man with one ear to take his revenge out over and over again. Not suitable for younger kids but it scares the pants off a 12 year old.

[SunnyDay]

This is one thing that we don't do. The last thing I need is kids peeing in their sleeping bags because they are too afraid to get up and go take care of their business in the night.