Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina

Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North Carolina by Randy Russell and Janet Barnett consists of many different ghosts stories that are suposably true. Most of the stories are about ghost that have died and left behind something or have unfinished business. One story in the novel was about a man named Daniel Keith who was accused for a murder and swore to be innocent. The whole city arrived to watch him be hung. "The soul of an innocent man don't rest"(Russell and Barnett 6)were his last words before he died. After his death, a shadow appeared on the south wall of the jail. The people of the town swore it was Daniel's shadow. They tried to paint over it but nothing helped make it go away. Lastly an eighty five year old man who lived ane passed away. He was the Resident that testifed against Daniel Keith during his trial. And he was the last of those cursed by Daniel Keith to die. Lastly I liked how all the stories were tied together because all of the eighteen stories happened in North Carolina.

I did like this book because it leaves many mysteries in the mountains of North Carolina. The stories were really intereting and made me want to find out what was going to happen. I also liked how all the stories were completely diferent, and they didn't sound like ghost stories we've heard over and over. Lastly I like howw all the stories were tied together because they all happened in the mountains of North Carolina so it makes you a little nervous to go there.

There were also many things I didn't like abut the novel. I didn't like how some of the stories dragged on then just cut off short. Also some of the stories did not seem too realistic to me, but thats probably because I dont believe in ghost. I think the book overall was actually a decent book if you kind of or do beieve in ghost.

Little Girl Is Following Me

An anonymous man swears that on his way back to his room from his bathroom, he saw a little girl who seemed to be the age of maybe four on the left side of his room door. Then he saw a blur down the hallway, and te little girl was gone. That night, he dreamed of the little girl holding on to his leg asking if she could sleep with him tonight. Then he woke up with his left leg so cold it was numb. That wasn't the only other strange thing that had happened to him. "But then i noticedas I looked at my TV, it was on Cartoon Network. When I went to bed, I was watching Real Time with Bill Maher, which happened to be on HBO2." Then after he turned it off, the televsion flicked back on by itself. He says it was the weirdest things, and he doesn't know what to do about it.
I think this is a bit more realistic ghost story than others because it doesn't have anything to do with hauntings. It was just a little girl in a house. She wasn't going after the anonymous man, or trying to get revenge on him, she was just in the house. If there are ghost i think they just are there for historical reasons like if they died there, etc.

Paranormal Activity Clip

In the clip of Paranormal Activity directed by Oren Peli, the couple have been hearing and experiencing werid things in the house. One night they decide to film the room while they were sleeping. The man in the clip says "I think we are going to have a very interesting time capturing whatever is occuring or not occuring." They have proof on tape that there was something strange living in the house. The tape shows the closet door closing on its own while the man and woman are asleep in their bed. Once they are woken up by the strange thing living in the house, they said whatever it is, they can hear and feel it breathing on them. As the clip goes on, they start being harassed by it and bad things go on from then.
Even if there is some type of ghost living in your house, I don't believe you could actually capture it on film. Also, I don't believe that ghosts are here to kill people or harass people, I think if ghosts do exist, then they won't have an effect on people living.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXkMo092Uug

The Insane Old Lady

When a girl named Brenda Star was only twelve years old, her family moved to a house that was further back off the than the other houses on that street. Her family moved there because they bought a restaurant. They were only at the house from eleven p.m. to five a.m. But one day Brenda and her mother came home early before her dad. They heard loud music, and Brenda's mother assumed it was coming from her. She told Brenda to turn down the music, but Brenda explained to her mother that it wasn't her. They tried to discover where the music was coming from, but never did. Then one day when the family arrived home at eleven o'clock, they saw their dog, who was very protective, go crazy by the garage. They opened the garage door and found an old lady in a rocking chair swaying back and forth. Brenda's father went to the car to shine the lights towards the garage. But when he did nothing was there. The old lady was gone. So he turned them off again, and she appeared again. So the family packed up to go stay with Brenda's older sister. Later as the years went by they found out that the old woman in the rocking chair was a woman who went insane after her husband left her (Star).

Knowing that this story was written directly from the girl who experienced it makes it seem more realistic than others. It wasnt just a classic ghost story that every has heard before. I believe that if ghosts really are real than this story is accually true.

http://www.trueghoststories.co.uk/The%20Insane%20Old%20Lady.htm