Halloween Stories

No spooky Halloween is complete without a selection of ultra creepy Halloween stories. Telling stories at Halloween is great fun and the scarier they are the better. Halloween stories are suitable for any age group you like so you can easily modify a story to suit young children as well as adults. If you are feeling creative you can easily sit down and come up with a few of your own spooky tales to tell, just let your imagination take control. Searching the internet is always a great start if you are at home as you can find many different themes and ideas and even read about other peoples harrowing experiences. To make your Halloween story a little freakier choose one that is based on a true story, as the thought of it actually happened will make everyones imagination run wild. After scouring the internet for a truly scary tale I found a few that would be awesome to share this Halloween.

The Hanging Man

Elmer McCurdy Grave

In December of 1976, a Universal Studios camera crew arrived at the Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California, to film an episode of the television action show, the Six Million Dollar Man. In preparing the set in a corner of the funhouse, a worker moved the ‘hanging man,’ causing one of the props arms to come off. Inside it was human bone. This was no mere prop; this was a dead guy! The body was that of Elmer McCurdy, a young man who in 1911 had robbed a train of $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma. He announced to the posse in pursuit of him that he would not be taken alive and the posse obliged by killing him in a shoot-out. McCurdy’s body became a sideshow attraction right after his embalming. It is claimed that the local undertaker though he had done such a wonderful job at restoring McCurdy that he let the towns folk see him for a nickel a piece. The nickels were dropped into the corpse’s open mouth, later collected by the undertaker. No one ever showed up to claim McCurdy’s body so, legend has it that undertaker kept him around to collect nickels for a few years after the embalming. Carnival promoters wanted to buy the stiff, but the undertaker turned them down. He didn’t want to lose his most steady form of income. In 1915 two men showed up, claiming that McCurdy was their long lost brother. They took McCurdy away, supposedly to give him a decent burial in the family plot. In actuality, the long lost McCurdy ‘brothers’ were carnival promoters. It was a scam to get the body that they had wanted for years. They exhibited McCurdy throughout Texas under the same title that the undertaker had given him ‘The Bandit Who Wouldn’t Give Up.’ It seems that McCurdy’s body popped up everywhere after that, in places such as an amusement park near Mount Rushmore, lying in an open casket in a Los Angeles wax museum, and in a few low-budget films. Before the Six Million Dollar Man crew discovered this prop to be a corpse, McCurdy had been hanging in a Long Beach funhouse for four years. In April 1977, the much-traveled Elmer McCurdy was laid to final rest in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. To make sure the corpse would not make its way back to the entertainment world the state medical examiner ordered two cubic yards of cement poured over the coffin before the grave was closed.

Ghostly Handprints

Railroad Ghost

It has been said that the protective ghosts of little children killed at a railway crossing push stalled cars off the tracks.

The Story:
There was a school bus full of children that had stalled on some train tracks in San Antonio, Texas. A train was coming and was going too fast to stop in time to get the bus off the tracks. The bus wouldn’t move in time, was hit and all of the children died. It was a great tragedy. The tracks are located on a curve in the road but the tracks are on a small up-hill grade to both sides. Apparently if you stop your car just on the tracks and put it in neutral, it will slowly start to roll over the little hill and down the other side despite being on an up-hill gradient. A local Los Angeles, California station sent a crew there to check it out and it was done on tape, with a San Antonio sheriff present. The cars back end was cleaned off of any finger prints before the test was done and after it was done it was dusted for prints. Several small hand prints and finger prints showed up on the bumper, showing that the small hands of the ghost children were pushing the car to get it off the tracks. There are also claims that this is nothing more than a gravity anomaly allowing a non-moving vehicle to move over a small up-grade. But no one can explain away the hand and finger prints.