scary ghost stories

If there’s one thing I’m a sucker for, it’s a good tale of the supernatural.  My criteria for ‘good’ is pretty simple;  it needs to be short, plausible, and written in a way that gives me the chills.

Author Jason Offutt’s blog delivers.

From The Shadows is a collection of true stories collected by Offutt. 

Excerpt:

My sister was upstairs and my mom was in the dining room,” Christie said. “She told us to stop crying. We weren’t crying.”

Christie’s mother called the girls into the dining room where the sound of a weeping girl spread through the room.

“When you stepped into the dining room you could hear this sobbing and moaning,” Christie said. “It came in waves. It would get louder then it would fade away. If you weren’t paying attention to it you would miss it.”

The crying lasted about 40 minutes, but they only heard it in the dining room. The crying didn’t make Christie uneasy; the feeling of being watched did.

It just gets worse from there.