Everyone has a story. Tell me yours: ghost stories

The dark is home to every fear the imagination can conjure up and Jackson Small is no stranger to an active imagination. Small recounts an experience walking home after watching a scary movie with some of his family. "Oh, there was one thing that was just, it was kind of weird, me, my brother and my cousin went to watch the movie Lights Out, which is this horror movie about this ghost, they're ...

Junior Olivia Szaj recounts a ghost story from nearly a decade ago: "Okay, so I was at camp one year, and we were telling ghost stories in the cabin because that's what you do at camp at night. So, we heard like this very light tapping out the window, and it scared us very very badly, but it kept happening every time we got to a really scary part of the story. We went outside and [found out] it...

Ninth grader Cooper Olson doesn't have the best experience with ghosts. Olson said, "One time when I was younger, I saw a ghost in front of my eyes. My bedroom door shut right in front of my face and when I went to go open it, there was a ghostly figure floating in the hall [on the other side of the door] but then I blinked twice and it was gone." Olson also shared that the experience was emotionally...

Sophomore Aten-Wa Theba shares his favorite ghost story. "Last year around Halloween I went on a snowboarding trip in Austria, I was told about a famous ghost story where on the glacier every Halloween, a ghost comes and kills a person by pushing them off the cliff. Obviously, I didn't believe this story as it is a myth but later that week we were relaxing at the cabin and one of my friends comes...

Not all believe in ghosts, but ninth-grader Emma Krienke does. In the spirit of spooky season, Krienke gave us her best ghost story: "One time I'm in the middle of a swimming meet and I look over and I see my dead great-grandma [...] I was really tired [...] it was during a 400 and I was like I'm never going to finish this. But, I looked over at the ghost of my great-grandma, and she said "You got...