Things You'll Need:
- Pen
- Paper
- A good Imagination
- Historical folklore from your area.
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Step 1
Know your audience. Don't tell a ghost story to a bunch of adults. If you are telling them to your friends, you should know what they will find creepy.
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Step 2
Create a good story. Since you won’t be publishing this, it is okay to adapt classic stories and local folk lore to fit. However, don’t ever use characters or plots that are well known. Don’t use anything you saw in a popular movie (someone in the crowd will recognize it and take away your position of authority.) You may want to incorporate local folk lore and ghost stories around your area.
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Step 3
Decide whether you will recite an incident or a folklore type story or both. Normally, the best ghost stories are the ones that tell of the tragedy of the ghost (how and why it became a ghost and what it’s known for doing.) and an anecdote to “verify” the story such as ( In 1993 two kids went down to the bridge to try and see the ghost. They banged once on the bridge, twice, on the bridge, THREE times on the bridge. One of them, Molly Snyder, got too scared and ran as she ran she heard her brother start to taunt her, then she heard him screaming bloody murder. She could not turn around. She ran home and told her parents. Her parents called the cops and went down to look for her brother. There was no sign of him, only a pile of blood.”
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Step 4
Remember that there are three parts to a ghost story: the set up, the conflict, and the closing of the lore story and the anecdote. Write down your story, you can just use bullet points so you can add embellishing when you tell the story.
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Step 5
Practice makes perfect. Some people appear to be naturally good storytellers, but they probably practice their material a few times before they “perform”
