Where to Find Ideas for Ghost Stories

Series Summary

For those of the living who take time to read this, know that you are too late. The church bells have already pronounced my passing, the newspapers already enumerated the nonsense of another nowhere life. There was only one who mattered to me, the single reason for my small existence, the cause of my last, irrevocable act. But alas, I meant nothing to her. Yet I had to exit my final resting place a final time in the desperate hope that maybe I was wrong. With decomposing body crumbling all the while, maggots and fingers my breadcrumbs back to my grave, I have sought out a computer to check my e-mail in hopes that I may have been mistaken. Perhaps her passion had somehow been delayed by a collapsed mainframe or a cyberspace mixup, perhaps our love would grace our afterlives after all. But alas, nothing.

Perhaps your L key sticks just like the one on the keyboard I was using, and you’ve got coffee stains on the space bar as well. Indeed you are very much like me as you read this very sentence. That chill you feel I cannot help, for the grave travels with me wherever I go. That rock band on the back of your t-shirt, I saw them in concert as well, with my beloved. Oh, the pain lives on for eternity! Now turn around from your computer screen and stare death in the face…

In this series of spooky how-to videos, our Halloween expert presents his guide to telling spine chilling ghost stories just in time to scare the daylights out of your party guests. Learn how to create maximum tension when telling your story with our expert’s techniques for pacing, voice control and eye movement. Should you use creepy voices and props? How long should your story be? The impact of your story depends on complete mastery of all aspects of the storytelling process. Watch each of the videos very carefully or you may discover your reputation just as dead as I am…

Video Transcript

"And they say he used this ax. Hi I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you how to tell a good ghost story. Alright before you can start telling a ghost story you of course have to know some and by knowing some you need to find sources for ghost stories. Perhaps your lucky enough where you already know some creepy ones and that's great if so you can automatically skip forward to some future step and ignore all this together. But odds are you may be doing this for the first time and if that's the case you may not have some stories to fall back on already. So there's a couple of areas you can go to first check family members you'd me surprise how many good stories and great aunts and uncles or cousins who know especially if they've been around for a while. Definitely tap family sources perhaps there's maybe a creepy family story automatically you have a personal connection to the story it'll have more meaning. If you don't have any personal connections to a story consider going to a library or a book store these are great sources. There is lots of books on scaring creepy tales that you can read up on and don't feel bad about going and getting a story that maybe you don't have a connection to, or that is not original the main points of telling a good scary story the source material is less important. "