CSS EP-18. 11 Best Scary Ghost Stories That Will Scare Your Socks Off

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That gets you a twenty dollars credit if you sign up for a paid plan and help support my show. Thanks everyone. Crazy Strange Days podcast presents Crazy Strange Stories Episode eighteen, eleven best scary ghost stories that will scare your socks off. We're heading over to countryliving dot com for some scary stories. What's Halloween without scary stories to tell in the dark. Sure, you'll want to watch or rewatch your favorite Halloween movies and see all the witches and vampires, but you'll also need a dose of creepy in these eleven scary ghost stories from around the country. Just as scary as one of these spooky ghost towns. I'm not supposed to read that part? Yeah will. They're sure to add a thrilling scare to your Halloween season for everyone from teens to adults, and they are all a short read too. Venture to Saint Francisville, Louisiana, and you just might cite a ghost named Chloe on Myrtle's Plantation. Head north to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where the Crescent Hotel is alleged to be haunted by ghosts, and then over to Abbeyville, Alabama for the haunting of Huggin Mally. Up on the East Coast in New York City, the Crying Lady has been reported to have been seen in the Dakota. All right, let's get right into it. Number one Sloss Furnaces bing Birmingham, Alabama. Five years after the Civil War, Birmingham, Alabama was founded. Is that true? With its birth in eighteen seventy one came the need for tons of pig iron to fix the US's crumbling infrastructure. I'm going to say this, Sloss Furnaces were founded. So Colonel James Weather's Loss began to build Sloss furnaces. A year later, the company opened its doors to hundreds of employees. According to its official website, jobs on blast furnaces were advanced, but also dangerous, and many workers started falling to their deaths in the furnaces by the early eight or excuse me, by the early nineteen hundreds, conditions had worsened with a cruel foreman named James slag Wormwood who took dangerous risks to increase production. During this his tenure at Sloss, nearly fifty employees died on site and many others were involved in terrible accidents. Now allegedly, his workers threw him into the furnace and retaliation in nineteen oh six. Today you can still walk the grounds of Sloss furnitures furnaces. If you dare, you may even hear Slag's voice yelling get back to work, lazy so and sos, and witness other paranormal experiences. Next up on the list, it's number two, The crying Lady in the Dakota, New York, New York. Isn't this where Lenin stayed? Eh? Since it's opening in eighteen eighty four, the Dakota Apartment building has been home to many rich and famous residents of New York City. Among them were John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who moved in in nineteen seventy three. John was also assassinated outside the building in nineteen eighty Before that Faithful Day on December eighth, though so, John said he he saw a crying lady ghost walking the halls, and afterward, Yoko, who still resides there, claimed she saw John's ghost sitting at his piano and that he said to her, don't be afraid, I'm still with you. I think this is also is this the place? I don't know if you guys know this where John saw the little Gray Aliens and got abducted. This might be the place where that happened to I don't know good fact check out number three, The Bell Witch. We've covered this a few times. This is over in Adams, Tennessee. If you're a scary movie lover, you might actually know about the Bell Witch. The films An American Haunting and The Blair Witch Product Project are both based on the story. Way back in the early eighteen hundreds, a man named John Bell moved his family into the area in this area was by the Red River, which is also known as Adams, Tennessee. After they had settled into the new home, some particular things started happening. The Bell family began hearing some bizarre noises, including dogs barking, Oh that's bizarre, chains rattling, rats chewing, and a woman whispering. Soon that woman became known as the Bell Witch, and many people believe she's the ghost of a former neighbor of the Bells, good Old Kate bats Bats In. The Bells had a dispute over land and she had sworn vengeance on the Bell family before she died. Later on, Bell died from poisoning and it's rumored to be the work of the Bell Witch. There's a lot more to that story. I don't remember the episode, but I did an episode on it, and beyond that episode there's still more. So it's a really classic haunting slash witch story. I guess I think it's more of a haunting a spirit. I think there's much of a witch to do with it. If you really dive into it. It's pretty trippy. So moving along, Number four, The Ghosts of the Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Spend the night in the Haunted Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, ar Kansas, which opened in eighteen eighty six. During the construction, a worker named Michael was killed, and his ghost reportedly still haunts him to eighteen all right. Other than that, the hotel came under the ownership of a known medical fraud, Norman Baker, in nineteen thirty seven. He fancied himself a doctor, but he wasn't. He turned the hotel into the Baker Cancer Hospital, claiming to have the cure for the disease he did not. Obviously, patients who died under his care were buried right in the hotel's basement, which served as a makeshift morgue. He was arrested in nineteen forty, but his patient's spirits are still said to be browming around because the hotel is still open. Guests to often say they see apparitions, I have such a hard time pronouncing aperations, and hear noises during their stays. Sci Fi's Ghost Hunters even has footage of something moving in the basement. It's probably a big ass rat. Number five. Hug and Mollie, Abbeyville, Alabama. It's best to stay home when the sun sets in Abbeville, Alabama if you want to avoid hugging Mollie's chilly embrace. As the legend goes, beginning in the early nineteen hundreds, an oversized figure clad and all black, began roaming the streets at night looking for unsuspecting victims. Once she fixates on someone, she hugs the person and screams loudly into their ears. Many people have recounted stories of being chased by what they believe was hugging Molly. Local parents have even taken advantage of the story to keep their children in line. Darn kids. The town embraces its nightmare warden, proudly calling itself the Home of hug and Mollie. There's even a family friendly restaurant named after her. Yum Number six, The Currency House Ghostncy, Georgia. The Certaincy Clan began experiencing paranormal activities in present day Cerncy, Georgia in the eighteen seventies. Family members reported witnessing objects soaring across rooms, hearing laughter and crying, and seeing red eyes staring into the house. Food was thrown from their plates and utensils twisted into unusable shapes. The townspeople speculated that these occurrences were cries for help from spirits who thought the family would be able to save them. On the day the family decided to finally leave the house, a fire iron allegedly floated up and started hitting one of the sons on the head. Hmm. No one was ever brave enough to leave. Excuse me to live in the house again, and the building went up and fled Dames in nineteen twenty five. I would have burnt it like a long before that. Yeah. Number seven. The Ghost of Bellamy Bridge, Marianna, Florida. For a taste of true haunting love, travel over this spooky bridge in the in Marianna, Florida, which has several ghost legends surrounding the structure, so it's like an iron old iron old school, iron like girder bridge, like a erector set. In the eighteen thirties, Elizabeth Jane Kroume Bellamy married local politician doctor Samuel C. Bellamy. On their wedding night, her dress accidentally caught on fire, which covered the young bride in horrible burns. She initially survived, but eventually passed away. Elizabeth was bury along the banks of the Chipola River Chipotle River, and it was said that her love for her husband was so strong she couldn't rest. The deceased newlywed, dressed in white, can allegedly be seen wandering the banks from the vantage point of the bridge, which was built after she died. It's said that she appears on fire, either walking through the swamps or driving straight into the river, or excuse me, diving straight into the river. That makes more sense, h as if to douse the flames, or somberly walking along the side of the river. Number eight The Ghost of Deer Island, Biloxi, Mississippi. Back on May twentieth, nineteen twenty two, Anthony Ragison aka mister Tony, relayed this tale in a column in the Sun Herald. He writes that in the early eighteen hundreds, two fishermen spent the night on Deer Island off Biloxi's coast. They heard noises that they ignored until it became impossible to do so. When they went to see what was causing the ruckus, they claimed they found a headless skeleton that ran after the pair. They immediately made a bee line for their boat and got off the island immediately. It is said that the bony frame belongs to a pirate who had his head chopped off by his captain, and his body was left behind as a ghastly guard to watch over the buried treasurer Number nine we've covered before, not too long ago, maybe a couple of weeks ago, but I don't mind, as sometimes these stories you get different vantage points, viewpoints, different tales about them, so we're going to cover it again. Number nine Zombie Road, Wildwood, Missouri, Missourira, outside of Saint Louis Lies. Zombie Road a hotbed of ghostly activities. There are many scary stories stemming from lawlor Ford Road its actual name, from sightings of indigenous spirits wandering the stretch, to victims of train accidents. There used to be active tracks there, like Della Hamilton mccclerg, who was struck by a passing train in the nineteen fifties. It became a popular late nineteen hangout spot, with various murders happening in the area. It's also been rumored to be the home base of a murderer named Zombie who escaped a mental asylum. These days, the stretch has been re christened as a nature trail, but it's closed once night falls, with hefty fines for those who dare trespass. Number ten Dead Woman's Crossing, Weatherford, Oklahoma. This one's a regular murder mystery turn ghost story, according to Atlas Obscura. In the early nineteen hundreds, in Weatherford, Oklahoma, Katie DeWitt James left her home with her baby after she filed for divorce from her husband. She planned to move in with her cousin, but her family never heard from her. After an investigation, it turned out that she moved in with local prostitute Frannie Norton. She was last seen leaving the house with Frannie and her child in carriage. Frannie returned with the child, who was covered in blood, but without Katie. Her body was found later along a nearby creek with her head cut off. It was rumored that her ex husband had killed her with Frannie's help, but Franny claims she wasn't involved in Katie's death, but on the day she was supposed to be questioned by the police, she poisoned herself. Katie's still around, though she allegedly appears as a blue light floating around town, and people have reported hearing a woman looking for her baby in the rolling sound of wheels. Number eleven in a very famous place for ghost hunter and spook followers, it's the Myrtles Plantation, Saint Francisville, Louisiana. If you've never heard of the Myrtles, you might want to check it out. It's crazy. Of the numerous spirits haunting this plantation that was built in seventeen ninety six in Saint Francisville, Louisiana, the most known entity is Chloe. According to the official website, it said that the plantation owner, Clark Woodriff, carried on an affair with an enslaved person, that being Chloe, which he ended abruptly. She began to easdrop on his conversation and he caught her. As punishment, he cut her ear off. She then poisoned the rest of the family with a birthday cake, leaving him alone. The other enslaved people knew what she had done and hanged her. She supposedly still remains on the property. Some say proof of this is a photograph from nineteen ninety two where her spirit is reportedly visible. Ocky dok, that is it. I hope you enjoyed it. Those are kind of fun links in the show notes, five star rate and review. If you've got about two minutes, it's real simple. Do that on your podcatcher, your favorite like Apple, Spotify, etc. I've been mixed strange dud as Dames names the Lady Days Lady Days