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Ghost stories deck 50 Spine Tingling Tales to Tell After Dark
Gather 'round a campfire or huddle under the covers; these bone-chilling stories are full of things that go bump in the night. The flash cards are the perfect size for reading aloud on camping trips, at sleepover parties, or alone with a flashlight. Check the "scare rating" on the corner of the card to find just the right level of spookiness to entertain your audience.

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    Ghost Stories


    • The Army of the Dead
      The ghosts of the Confederate Army still march through Charleston, South Carolina. A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky South.

    • The Bells
      A sweeper -- seeking buried treasure -- encounters a terrible ghost!

    • Black Bartelmy's Ghost
      Black Bartelmy was an evil, surly buccaneer who murdered his wife and children and went to sea with a band of pirates as nasty as he. (Nova Scotia)

    • The Black Dog of Hanging Hills
      A black dog haunts Meriden, CT. A version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • Blackbeard's Ghost
      Blackbeard's ghost continues to walk the shores on the Pamlico Sound, searching for his head.

    • The Bloodstain
      A murdered man haunts the house where he was killed.

    • The Cut-Off
      A Louisiana riverboat captain is trapped forever in a cut-off. A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky South.

    • The Dungarvon Whooper
      A murdered cook screams out his rage and terror each evening at dusk.

    • The Death Coach
      The Death Coach comes for a dying man.

    • Ghost in the Stacks
      A college student sees the ghost of a murdered girl haunting the library.

    • Dem Bones
      The ghosts of Captain Kidd's pirate crew return to the place where they buried their treasure.

    • The Doctor and the Ghost
      A ghost helps a doctor save his patient. (Utah)

    • The Express Train to Hell
      The Express Train to Hell comes to Newark Central Station to take the soul of an old man.

    • The Fifty-cent Piece
      A couple spend a night at a haunted house. (New York)

    • The Girl in White
      A young man finds himself flirting with a ghost!

    • The Green Lantern
      The ghost of a lighthouse keeper haunts St. Martin's Island.

    • Ghost Handprints
      Ghosts rescue a car stuck on the railroad tracks.

    • The Ghost of Pearl White
      A young girl watches each night as a woman climbs the staircase to the apartment on the upper floor, never suspecting that the woman is a ghost.

    • The Ghost Pilots of Times Square
      The spirits of two RAF pilots visit Times Square after their planes were shot down over Berlin.
    • The Ghost Ship of Captain Sandovate
      The merciless crew that killed their captain are doomed to sail the Atlantic forever, searching for water.

    • The Ghosts of Ringwood Manor
      Do not visit Ringwood Manor after dark!

    • Ghost Train
      A Ghost Train appears on the tracks three miles outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta.
    • The Grave
      A woman haunts her burial ground.

    • The Headless Horseman
      A headless Hessian gallops forth from the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, scaring the locals.
    • Henry Hudson and the Catskill Gnomes
      Every wondered who Rip Van Winkle played nine-pins with? It was Henry Hudson and his crew!
    • I'm All Right
      A soldier visits his mother after he is killed in the Middle East.

    • La Llorona
      The ghost of a woman searches the river banks for her sons.

    • The Lady in Lace
      A beautiful ghost walks the shores near Pebble Beach, California.

    • The Lady in Red
      A murdered woman haunts a Nevada hotel.

    • The Lincoln Death Train
      Every April, the ghostly Lincoln Death Train travels up to Albany from New York City bearing a skeletal orchestra and the coffin of Abraham Lincoln.
    • Lost!
      A prospector lost in the mire is lead to safety by a beautiful ghost.

    • Milk bottles
      Day after day, a woman comes to the store for milk and leaves without paying.

    • Ocean-Born Mary
      The ghost of a beautiful woman haunts the house where her pirate-husband was murdered.

    • Palatine
      A Dutch ship wrecks off Block Island. (Rhode Island.) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • The Phantom Drummer
      The sound of a phantom drummer seals the doom of a Revolutionary War soldier trying to desert the British army.

    • The Phantom Lovers of Dismal Swamp
      A distraught man seeks for his dead lover in the Dismal Swamp.

    • The Phantom Train Wreck
      A horrible train wreck is re-enacted before the eyes of a stranded traveler.

    • Presumed Drowned
      The souls of five drowned men rejoin their ship from the Ice.
    • The Shadow Train
      A ghost train stops to rescue a dying man.

    • Spuyten Duyvil
      New Amsterdam is under attack. Can a brave trumpeter warn the people in time? (New York)

    • The Tolling of the Bell
      A bell mysteriously tolls in the night, foretelling the doom of the passengers of a local ship.

    • The Telltale Seaweed
      An overnight stay in an abandoned Cape Cod house reveals a ghost. (Massachusetts) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

    • The Trapper's Ghost
      The phantom of an evil trapper is doomed to roam the wilds of Labrador, helping lost travelers to atone for his sins.

    • Podcast: Turnabout is Fair Play
      An old man's ghost turns the tables on two little boys who played tricks on him when he was alive. Story comes from Spooky New Jersey.
    • The White Horse
      Mounted on a white horse, a new bride flees for her life from a rejected suitor.

    • The White House Ghosts
      Who's haunting the White House?

    • The White Lady
      A ghost rises out of Durand Lake to hunt down her daughter's killer. (New York)

    • Who Calls?
      A Cree warrior journeying to the home of his beloved hears her voice calling his name in the night.


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