Ghost stories

[Bumpkin]

Since around the campfire is one of the best places for ghost stories, I am curious how many of you tell spooky tales when camping. I'm normally a big scaredy cat, but I can't resist a good ghost story when we're camping.

[ppine]

There is generally a lot of story telling around our fires, and a lot of it is scary. It has nothing to do with ghosts; it is about people's true life adventures.

[oldsarge]

Not much for ghost stories myself. I prefer to listen to others life experiences. Swap ideas and so on.

[rayne]

We do both. Ghost stories as well as life experiences. I prefer a funny real story to a ghost story any day but one or two usually creep in there. Still in all, anything around the campfire is fun, fun, fun.

[campclose]

Depends on who is with us. If the kids are with us then we do tell ghost stories. We all take turns - it turns out to be super cute. If it's just adults, we don't tell ghost stories. We just chat.

[Grandpa]

Lot of true life adventure stories here when the kids are with. They really like the story of me wrestling a sasquatch and winning And the time old Tank ran a grizzly bear right up a tree and they always want to re hear what the tall blond aliens told me when they visited my camp deep in the wilderness. And no fireside is complete without revisiting Sam McGee.

[Outdoor City Boy]

Originally Posted by Grandpa

Lot of true life adventure stories here when the kids are with. They really like the story of me wrestling a sasquatch and winning And the time old Tank ran a grizzly bear right up a tree and they always want to re hear what the tall blond aliens told me when they visited my camp deep in the wilderness. And no fireside is complete without revisiting Sam McGee.

Haha that's awesome!

This website has some really good ghost stories for around the campfire.

[oldsarge]

We used to tell stories just to put someone on edge. Never waited until night time, I figure if your going to freak somebody out, might as well do it early. Had a guy many years ago who wouldn't use the toilets at the camp grounds after we told him about "septic tank spiders". We explained how they would crawl up from underneath and leave a painful bite that would get severely infected due to the nasty conditions. He would wait as long as he could then go to the gas station down the way when nature called. Another time when stationed in Panama. We were out in the jungle and a bunch of us found a really large Tarantula. Of course being young GI"s we had to mess with it and found that it had a large egg sack underneath. One of the guys ended up killing it and burned the egg sack. After a short time while we were just sitting there, I started looking around all nervous like. This young troop ask me what I'm looking for. I told him That Tarantula's always travel in pairs with their mates. The Male was somewhere near by looking for the female and the eggs. Of course I know nothing about the social habits of spiders and I'm making it all up. This kid sat on his rucksack all night long and never laid down to sleep. I know this because we were on an all night listening/observation post and as we rotated people throughout the night to conduct the duties, he was there sitting on the ruck.

[dinosaur]

Originally Posted by Grandpa

,,,and they always want to re hear what the tall blond aliens told me when they visited my camp deep in the wilderness.

I cannot help but think that there's a tabloid on the planet of tall blondes that has a headline that reads: I'm having an alien's baby.

[ejdixon]

Back when I was in college, we'd try to tell horror stories and then would go out for a bit of a hike at night to see who'd be the first one to run back to camp.