Guest Chris Redding Talks About Scary Stories

Chris Redding


I like scary stories. Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce. I’m not a diehard horror fan, because I think there is too much gratuitous grossness in them. But give me something that makes my skin crawl and I’m all over it.

So of course when I stumbled upon www.weirdnj.com I was in hog heaven. There are scary stories right in my state.

There is supposedly a ghost of a little boy in Atco, New Jersey. http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=189&Itemid=28 You can only see him at midnight and you have to do some things to actually get him to appear. I have goosebumps just reading it. Not sure I’m brave enough to go there.



In Mount Holly, NJ, there is a former prison now operating as a museum. Apparently the Boston Strangler once was held there before he committed those crimes. http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=28 I think the story about who designed it was also interesting.

And here’s one about where the Bruno Hauptmann trial took place. http://www.weirdnj.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=28



I actually have some person ghost stories. I had a friend in junior high who had a ghost in her house. The family named him Luigi. I definitely felt a presence in the house, but there was no threat. He would open doors for you.

Another time I was taking a short cut from school to work through Ridley Creek State Park in Pennsylvania. It was a bright sunny day. I’d never taken this route and thought it would be enjoyable. It was until a crossed a bridge over what I think was a reservoir. And all of a sudden I had this sense of terror. I knew people had died on that bridge. I never investigated further and I never crossed that bridge again.



Years later, my family and I took the haunted tour of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. They tried to make it spooky, but to me none of it was scary until we entered a state room. I turned to my husband and said that someone died there. Sure enough the tour guide said that it was rumored that someone died in that stateroom and that a ghost haunted it.

I hope that’s enough scary stuff to get you through your day.

Thanks for stopping by.

cmr



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