OPEN POST: Eeeek! Share Your Real-life Spooky Stories!

By AK

Behold a gazebo in a Victorian garden surrounded by an iron fence (which is surrounded by a much higher iron fence) on the grounds of a gigantic mansion (with a tower that's five stories tall), on an estate which encompasses an entire city block. Although once it was surrounded by other palatial estates it is now all alone, surrounded by apartment buildings and businesses. But, like a grande dame who is now of diminished circumstances, it maintains its dignity despite its bustling surroundings.

There's stories of it being haunted (nothing like the glamorous dump I work at, though) and although it's not open to the public I did get a behind the scenes tour about 30 years ago, courtesy of a bartender I was good friends with who moonlit as security there part-time. I went there one night before he finished and he walked me through the whole place. He even took me up to the attic floor and showed me the original antique bowling alley, though he kinda hurried through that part. 

When we got outside he said "I don't like to go up there. Sometimes I hear the bowling balls rolling up there and it gives me the creeps." I don't blame him, although the feeling I got from the place was not spooky at all. As elaborate as it was/is, it felt like a happy home to me. Who knows, maybe the family that built it and owned it forever show up now and then just to make sure it's being cared for properly? Maybe the kids who grew up there still like to run up and down the stairs like little maniacs occasionally? Hell, maybe the phantasms are just trying to manage a 7-10 split! 

In the spirit of the season (hardy har har), here's some pics I've taken of the Halloween decorations here over the years. They take this shit REALLY seriously!





Please, Peckerites, in the spirit of Halloween, share your ghostly true stories. We'd all love to hear them!

Photo Credit: AK

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