Tell your Ghost stories

El Pirata · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2008, 06:42 PM

Come and tell me your ghost stories, I love em and you should tell them to me.

cheshirecat · 03-05-2008, 08:04 PM

About forty miles north of Atlanta in rapidly growing Forsyth County is a pretty covered brige known as Poole's Mill Bridge. It's one of the few covered bridges left in Georgia - or anywhere, for that matter. At one time the sagging old bridge was in such bad shape that it about fell into the creek below. But the county built a nearby park and restored the covered bridge to its original state. So now, as in years past, the bridge is a really nice spot to have a family picnic, or a romantic afternoon with your sweetheart, or just to stop by to enjoy a nice wade in the creek.

That's exactly what one young family did on a bright summer day back in the 1930s. At that time there was a grist mill operating near the bridge, which is how Poole's Mill got its name. The mill was first built in the early 1800s by a Cherokee named George Welch. But he was tragically forced out of Georgia by the government and sent out west along the notorious Trail of Tears. Even though another family took over the grist mill and ran it successfully for years, some say the area was forever cursed by the wrong done to Mr. Welch.

The young family I mentioned earlier included a Daddy, a Mama and their nine-year- old daughter. They were traveling through the area when they saw the pretty bridge and thought they'd stop for a picnic just upstream from the mill. Mama and Daddy spread a blanket on a tiny hill while their daughter ran down to the creek.

"Watch yourself down there!" yelled Mama after her daughter.

But the young girl didn't pay her any mind. It was hot as the devil's kitchen, and that cool water sure looked tempting. So the young girl kicked off her shoes and socks, hiked up her dress and jumped into that cool water.

Creek

What nobody knew that day was that recent rains had made the creek deeper and more trecherous than it seemed. In no time, the current suddenly swept the young girl away. Mama and Daddy heard her screams and ran down to the creek bank. Then they gazed in horror at what lay ahead.

Their daughter was floating downstream toward the grist mill.

Her daddy dove into the water and frantically swam after her. He was a strong swimmer, and with the help of the current he inched closer and closer to his screaming daughter. But she was being sucked toward the large water wheel that creaked and groaned in the rushing water like some wounded monster.

"Hold on sweetheart!" screamed Daddy, his mouth filling with the rushing water.

Daddy lunged for the big blue bow on the back of his daughter's dress, his fingertips mere inches from her. Then with one final, blood curdling scream, his daughter was sucked under the water wheel. The mill creaked to a halt, and Daddy knew with sickening certainty that his daughter was wedged under the wheel.

By this time the mill workers had heard her screams. They dove into the water to help save her. But by the time they pried her from the slimy wooden teeth of the water wheel, it was too late. The pretty young girl had drowned, her face as blue as the bow on her dress.

The story spread like wildfire through the community. Devastated, the young couple left the state with the body of their daughter and never returned. No one knew their names, but the young victim was forever known around town as the Blue Girl.

Several years later, the old grist mill mysteriously burned to the ground and the pretty bridge fell into neglect. Until the county built the nice new park I mentioned earlier, many an old timer wondered what was really happening out at the old Poole's Mill. Had the Blue Girl returned to avenge her death? Or was it the curse of the Cherokee George Welch?

Now you might think this is the end of the story, but there's one more important part to tell. Bear with me, but we're now going to need to jump to modern times and a local man named Chuck Morse.

There are a few things about Chuck you should know. He did a couple tours of duty in Vietnam and came back with a disfigured right arm, thanks to an unfortunate napalm accident. He also brought back a few scars that didn't show, things he wouldn't talk about. But whatever happened to him, the promise he'd shown in school and the bright future all his teachers knew was coming his way vanished into thin air.

Since coming back to the States, he never could hold a job for more than a few months. So he tried one get-rich-quick scheme after another. He illegally planted potatoes on a neighbor's land to sell to the one of the large potato chip companies. He did some electrical repairs at another neighbor's house and nearly burned the place down, after lying that he was a certified electrician. When too much trouble followed him, he'd disappear and find work on the oil pipelines in places like Saudi Arabia or Alaska. He'd come home flush with cash, quickly blow it all, and would be right back at square one.

It was during one of these visits back home, while sitting at the bar at the local VFW, that his life changed forever. While nursing a beer, thinking about what scheme he could come up with next, Chuck didn't notice that an old World War 2 veteran had slid up beside him.

"Hey, Chuck," said the old timer. "Ever seen a piece o' gold like this?"

Chuck looked down at the old timer's hands, and his jaw dropped. The old man was holding one of the largest gold nuggets Chuck had ever seen. Must be worth thousands of dollars, he reckoned.

The old timer noticed Chuck's envious gaze and shoved the rock back in his pocket. Chuck gave a low whistle and said "Man! Where'd you get that?"

Bridge

"My grandson found it up near Poole's Mill Bridge the other day when he went up there with his daddy," the old man answered. "Way I hear it, there's a lot more up there if you're willing to dig for it."

"What do you mean?" Chuck asked.

The old timer said a man named BJ Corliss who ran the Cherokee tourist museum out on Interstate 20 had told him about the gold. BJ regularly dug around Poole's Mill for arrowheads and other artifacts, and was shocked one day to dig up a nugget right near where the old millstone was buried up in the creek bank. BJ reasoned that Cherokee George Welch had buried a huge stash of gold that he'd panned from the river, hoping to return one day.

"Why doesn't that guy dig up the rest of it and put it in his museum?" Chuck asked.

"'Cause the county built that park up there, and the police keep a close eye on it during the daytime. And there ain't no way in hell he's gonna dig for it at night."

Chuck drained his beer and laughed. "You know, they got this new invention called a flashlight..."

"...It ain't that," answered the old timer. "He's scared of the Blue Girl."

Well this really made Chuck roll his eyes. He'd heard the stories about the Blue Girl ever since he was a kid. She was about as real to him as Bigfoot.

"You know, the reason BJ's scared of the Blue Girl is 'cause he's seen her," said the old timer, noticing Chuck's skeptic smirk. "He was up at the bridge one afternoon just as it was getting' dusty dark, gatherin' a few arrowheads he'd uncovered. When he stood up to put them in his bag, he saw a little girl out of the corner of his eye. She was wearin' a pretty Sunday dress, perfectly dry and not a wrinkle on it. But her hair was soakin' wet!"

"He started to take a step toward her to see if he could help her, not knowin' at the time who she was, when all of a sudden - poof! - she vanished. Then she suddenly appeared again about ten feet in front of him! Then he saw the bluish tint of her skin, and he knew exactly who she was. So he took off runnin' and prayin'."

The old timer paused to take a quick sip of his beer before continuing.

"A lot of mill workers claimed to have seen the Blue Girl up there at night thru the years, walkin' along the creek bank. She seems to want something, but no one's sure exactly what. She's still seen from time to time by folks who go up there at night, romancin' and whatnot. But nobody 'cept the museum guy ever said she'd come near them. He says he'll keep diggin' down there, but only in the daytime. There ain't no amount of gold, or priceless Cherokee artifacts, that'll get him down there after dark."

Chuck laughed again, patted the old timer on the back, paid his tab and left. He reckoned if that old man was going to tell him a Blue Girl story, he was probably lying about the gold as well. For all he knew, the old man had spray painted a creek rock.

But as he drove toward home, Chuck's "get rich quick" mind starting buzzing. What harm would it do to try digging up at Poole's Mill Bridge, he thought. If everyone's so scared of the Blue Girl, I can go up there at night and have the place to myself. If I don't find anything, all I wasted was a little bit of time. Beats spending another night in front of the TV, he thought.

So when Chuck got home, he grabbed his shovel, pickaxe and flashlight from the tool shed and roared away in his truck. Twenty minutes later, he arrived at the old covered bridge. Carefully looking for signs of anyone about, he parked his truck in a cluster of trees where no passing motorist could see it. He then grabbed his tools and marched down to the creek to find the old millstone.

Creek

Now finding what remains of the old grist mill is hard enough to do in the daytime - at night it's darn near impossible. Chuck cursed to himself as he slipped and stumbled along the creek bank, his shoes and pant legs sinking into the sloppy mud. He then made his way onto a pile of rocks. Certainly the millstone can't be far, he thought.

"Whoa!" Chuck yelled out as he slipped off the bank. The flashlight flew out of his hand, and he tumbled into the cold water, banging his knee against an underwater rock. Shouting out a long string of cuss words as only a former soldier can, he reached underwater, grabbed the big rock and threw it angrily into the trees.

Chuck saw his flashlight shining in the grass beside the creek bed. He grabbed it and looked at the damage to his leg. His pants had a small hole at the knee, and blood trickled out of a minor scrape. He knew he'd have a deep painful bruise in the morning.

Chuck pointed his flashlight back at the creek. In the spot where he fell, he swore he saw something glisten under the water. Could it be gold? His heart beat faster as he jumped back into the water and dug around where he had removed the underwater rock. And sure enough, he found gold - but not the gold he was expecting.

In his hand was a small, golden, heart shaped locket that looked like it had been buried in the creek for years. He noticed a clasp on the side and twisted it. Inside was a deteriorated, old-timey photograph of a Mama, a Daddy and their beautiful nine-year-old daughter. They were frowning and tired looking, like folks always look in those old-timey pictures. They were dressed in their Sunday best, the little girl in a pretty dress with a big bow.

Then Chuck's flashlight suddenly went out, plunging him into darkness. Dammit, he thought, what timing. What could possibly go wrong now?

But Chuck hadn't lost all of his light. A strange glow was emanating from behind his back, growing brighter and brighter. Maybe the moon had come out from behind the clouds, he thought for a moment. But then he heard a sound that chilled his blood - tiny footsteps splashing in the water behind him, growing louder and louder as the eerie bluish glow grew stronger and stronger. He took a deep breath and whirled around...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" he screamed. For a young girl stood behind him, in a dry and perfectly pressed Sunday dress, her skin glowing and blue, and her hair soaking wet. Her dark, pleading eyes stared holes into Chuck. Try as he might, he could not run, frozen in terror at the mere sight of her. The young girl silently reached toward him but stopped just short of his face.

All Chuck could think to do was pray silently for the first time in who knows how long. "Lord, if you get me outta here I'll never come back and look for gold or try to scam anybody or nothing. I don't know what this girl wants, but please, God - please help me!"

While he was praying, he was unconsciously rubbing the gold locket. The Blue Girl glanced at it. It was then that Chuck finally figured things out. That's it, he thought - she wants the locket.

Mustering up all the courage he had, he held the locket out toward the girl. She walked toward him, took the locket with her cold wet hands - and suddenly vanished. Chuck could've sworn she was smiling.

Chuck collapsed onto the creek bank shivering, partly from the cold water but mostly from sheer terror. After a minute or so, he noticed he was finally able to move. So even with his scraped, bruised knee, he flew up that creek bank, ran for his truck and burned rubber for a half mile getting away from there.

When Chuck finally calmed down a few days later, he realized what had happened. The Blue Girl had lost her locket when they pulled her from the creek, and she wouldn't leave the area until she had it back. For it was the only way she had of keeping her family close to her heart. The reason she'd confronted the museum owner was that he'd been digging around in the area. She thought he might be able to find her locket, since he was so good at finding artifacts.

Bridge

Ever since that day, the Blue Girl has not been seen around Poole's Mill Bridge, though there's no shortage of ghost hunters, curiosity seekers or lovebirds who go up there looking for her. Chuck gave up on his prospecting idea and moved out to Los Angeles to become an movie actor. Needless to say, most folks expect to see him back in the Poole's Mill area any day now.

As far as anyone knows, some of Cherokee George Welch's gold still hasn't been found. But, to this day, no one who's heard Chuck's story will go within 10 miles of Poole's Mill after dark.

But, really, that makes no sense, does it? The Blue Girl's long gone by now....

Isn't she?

- THE END -

**Ristaron** · 03-05-2008, 10:20 PM

I work at the Fort Garry Hotel, which is famous throughout the country for its ghosts. I haven't ever actually seen any of the ghosts, but I have felt one of them. I was working in coat check and all of a sudden I felt every hair on the back of my neck, and my arms, rise. It wasn't a chill, it was just an eerie sensation.

I recognized it from when I was doing Ouija with some friends. We communed with a ghost called Esphur, who we questioned regarding another ghost, affectionately called Little One (a little girl). A few hours later, I heard Esphur talking. A few hours after that (in the moonlight streaming in from the window) I saw Little One.

Last month I went to visit my friend Brandy after she had held an assayance and channeled a number of ghosts. Most of whom were still there when I arrived. It was such a strange sensation... I felt like I was freezing cold, but my skin was warmer than anyone else's (though I wasn't having a fever). And I kept getting distracted by things that I couldn't see if I tried (but played in the corner of my eyes). It was a little unsettling.
Also, I hadn't known that they had conducted an assayance until after I arrived and voiced how I was feeling really cold.

El Pirata · 03-05-2008, 10:39 PM

Thanks a ton for your stories so far! Im reading the first one still, but I love first hand accounts.

**Opunaya** · 03-06-2008, 05:26 AM

I got raped by ghosts.

El Pirata · 03-06-2008, 05:31 AM

lol, but the question is. . . can you get pregnant from ghosts

On a side note, that was a good story Chesire, kinda long but I read it all, and thanks for posting your story too Rist.

Keena · 03-15-2008, 09:59 PM

my mom told me this story one time and told me not to mention it to my dad, he's kinda close-minded about stuff like this (which makes me wonder how he reacted when she told him)

when i was little, apparently i started talking to my mom about seeing and talking to my grandpa, and she was kinda weirded out about it and she asked me which grandpa i was talking about. i said the one who rode horses all the time. My mom's dad used to own a lot of horses and ride them all the time when he was alive...he died before i was born.

i still dont remember anything about it, but i know my mom well enough to know she wouldnt have made something like that up.

tyrannosaurusjr · 03-16-2008, 09:30 AM

This isn't a ghost story per se, like an urban legend or whatever, but an experience of mine. Hell, maybe I'll post two. But I'll decide that later. The one I really want to get at takes place in the W~OO~Ds~~~ OF~~~ NORTHERN~~~~ MINNESOO~~TA~~...

I'm at one of the three different sites I've taught/counciled kids at this college run intensive Japanese language learning camp, and all the kids are in bed so me, my girl at the time, and a few other councilors are out sitting by the fire shooting the shit. Its a full moon and a little bit foggy out, and in front of us is this pretty wide expanse of overgrown field which is surrounded by trees. Its kinda pretty out, so we're kind of gazing out into the field while talking, and out of the blue this white thing shoots out of the woods from the right and is booking it across the field. We all see it and are saying, "the fuck??", and by it I mean a distinctly humanoid figure, probably around 6 feet tall, that was kind of a light grey color and didn't have any hair. This shit was MOVING man, like out-run-a-deer kinda fast. And the whole time we're watching this, we hear this grunting noise coming from it, grind vocal style.We watch it go from right to left, and it disappeared. I tried to follow it, but obviously didn't have any luck. The only other time I had any sense that the thing was around, whatever it was, was as my girl and I were walking across this bridge at night, and from underneath it we heard the same grunting noise as we had that first night. We booked it to the farmhouse nearby.

Maybe you'll get another story later...

cheshirecat · 03-16-2008, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by El Pirata

lol, but the question is. . . can you get pregnant from ghosts

On a side note, that was a good story Chesire, kinda long but I read it all, and thanks for posting your story too Rist.

This is one is shorter and a first hand account.

Me and a few buddies of mine were hanging out in this old grave yard one evening. Well it was a warm summer night and we were just shooting the shit. My friend Adriane keeps on looking behind him, So I go afraid the ghost might get you buddy? He goes no, theirs some guy back there and hes just staring at us. SO we think its a watchmen or something. Here most will keep an eye on you but as long as your not causing any trouble, they let you stay. Well, We talk a little bit longer and then Adriane starts to freak out. We turn and see this guy running towards us. SO we're all like fuck it! And run. Well we get to the car and the doors will not open. One of the windows was cracked so we got in the car. Just know we got in that car. We all crawl in, and Greg just floors it. Well I turn around and this thing is quite literally chasing the car.
Well when We reach the end of the cemetery it just stops and stares at us.

We never really quite figured out what had happened exactly.

**Ristaron** · 03-16-2008, 02:27 PM

Is the cemetery your usual 'get-together locale'?