True Hauntings and Stories

It didn't matter what they told me. I, myself never saw the figure so I tried to ignore their stories. Besides, scary movies were commonplace in our house. Every Friday night, we'd have Domino's Pizza, Pepsi and a movie—most of the times a scary one. My mom loved Night of the Living Dead, a classic black and white horror movie. But, there were endless other options like Poltergeist, Salem's Lot, Amityville Horror, Pet Sematary. Warm summer nights with the lights turned down a

As promised, this is my ghost story. The real ghost story. I was a very young nine years old when my family moved from the city of Cleveland to a western suburb to be closer to my grandparents. And we had just lost our house. We might as well have moved to another state instead of a fifteen-minute trip down the highway. Cellphones didn't exist back then. We didn't stay in touch with any of our little group of neighborhood friends. It felt as though we moved to an entirely new

Evil has a way of slowly creeping in, undetected. It comes without words, hype or trumpets blaring. Instead, it hides quietly in the background, slowly changing, stealthily altering ideas, facts, basic elements until before we know it, there's a change we never even realize happened. It's something we don't question. Something that seems as if it "always was" But the fact is, it always "wasn't". I did a lot of research when it came to The Franklin Castle. It was a proposed ch