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My take on it is this: I struggle with it, even though I do have my own proof. But it brings up my next question: if spirits exist and the dead can communicate, then obviously that means there are going to be malevolent spirits as well, right? So then should this definitively prove for me that God exists and I should start praying and whatnot? Christianity, God, and religion have never clicked for me. I've tried and tried going to church, praying, etc, but it just never clicked. I've never felt any God come and tell me I'm saved or whatever.
Sorry for the off-topic. But yeah, I think there -is- something out there. I'm very very curious about your being in the phobias thread though, pandy.
Your story about the little girl is really cool too, but something so old, so sinister, so smart and cunning that there aren't even stories about it other than this guy? There's no name? No face? It gives me chills, but I wanna know more.
basically a discussion of ghouls, goblins, bumping in the night and everything that can be considered spoopy. i'll start with a question, do you believe in ghosts?
Spoiler Show"In Berkeley county, South Carolina there are many legends on ghosts. Maybe the ghosts are due to the troubles brought by Revolutionary and Civil War battles, or due to the strife that many of the land’s inhabitants have seen over the centuries. Some will say it’s a mixture of all of these, while there are others who will dismiss the tales as mere stories fabricated by someone’s imagination.
This series is about the legend of Strawberry Chapel."
This is a picture I took of Strawberry Chapel. You will notice the fence in the lower right corner.
"According to the legend the chapel is haunted by the ghost of Catherine Chicken. The tale is a sad one. Catherine was the daughter of Captain George Chicken and Lydia Chicken. After her father died her mother remarried an influential plantation owner by the name of Elias Ball. It wasn’t long before Catherine, at the tender age of seven years, was sent off to the boarding school at Childsbury.
While at the boarding school Catherine was treated poorly by her caregivers the Dutarque’s. One day instead of doing her chores, Catherine began playing with her pet turtle and wandered off. Naturally this would give any caretaker alarm, but for the Dutarque’s the alarm wasn’t for Catherine’s welfare, it was for their own. If she was dead what would they tell her parents and the towns people of the town? The tale states that when Monsieur Dutarque found young Catherine she was sitting under a large oak tree in town playing with her turtle."
"Instead of relief Monsieur Dutarque became enraged at the sight of her well being and contentment. His anger carried his feet swiftly up to the tree and beside Catherine, startling her. When asked why she was there instead of inside doing her chores, little Catherine stated that she just wanted to be outside. Little Catherine didn’t have a chance against the rolling rage of Monsieur Dutarque. He cruelly snatched her up and dragged her by the arm to Strawberry Chapel and its graveyard."
'“So you want to be outside? Well, then you are going to have plenty of time outside!” The tale states Monsieur Dutarque as saying before coming to a stop in front of one the headstones."
"Taking out a rope he had brought with him Monsieur Dutarque did the unthinkable. He tied that lonely, little girl to the headstone standing up and left her there. Nightfall came and with it a damp cold. Cold and terrified Catherine started crying. When one of the townspeople heard her cries he recognized her voice and went to the Dutarque’s to check up on Catherine. Upon his arrival the Dutarque’s knew they would be in trouble if the town found out what they had done, so they insisted to their caller that Catherine was off visiting a relative. Suspicion grew as he talked to them, maybe it was their behavior, or the voice he recognized, or both. Whatever his reason for suspicion, one can’t say for sure, he rode straight to the relative’s house only to find that Catherine wasn’t there.
An alarm was raised and the people of Childsbury set out looking for little Catherine. By this time it was late in the evening and she was weak from terror and fatigue so her cries had grown faint and eventually, giving in to exhaustion, she fell asleep. If not for a slave who had been out illegally she might not have been found until daylight and quite possibly would have died that night. The brave slave, known as Money, took a shortcut through the cemetery back to where he was supposed to be. That’s when he saw her sleeping body straining against the rope as she hung from the headstone she had been tied to. Risking punishment for being out illegally he called out to members of the search party whom he saw off in the distance. That risk saved Catherine’s life."
"She was cut down from the headstone and carried to the town doctor. Before being cut down she was heard asking in a faint wisp of voice, “Monsieur Dutarque, why did you leave me here?” That wisp of a question let everyone in the town know who was responsible for Catherine’s predicament, causing them to hold captive the Dutarque’s. As you can imagine, there were many who wanted to lynch them right then and there but logic reasoned out and it was determined they would let the law handle the matter."
"For several days no one knew if Catherine would live. Her ordeal that night had left her tiny body wasted. As the days passed and she remained bedridden and unable to speak the town’s anger grew. When it was time for a trial she opened her eyes and told her mother not to let them harm the Dutargque’s. Her step father told the tribunal of her request and held firm that it was to be honored."
"The Dutarque’s did not go unpunished though. Madame Dutarque was ferried across the river and deposited on the shore and told never to return. Monsieur Dutarque’s fate was handled differently. The town’s people helped Catherine’s step father strip and then bound Dutarque backward to a mule. The mule and Monsieur Dutarque were chased out of town by the local militia’s drummers, causing the mule to kick and turn. The town’s people didn’t stop there though. Following behind the mule they threw rocks, fruit, eggs and anything else they could find at the horrible monsieur. It was only after the townspeople were done with their judgement that they ferried both the mule and the sadistic Dutarque across river. Once on the shore the mule was struck with a whip causing the mule to take off into the wilderness with Dutarque still strapped to him; his fate left up to Mother Nature and the natives."
"Catherine did recover to grow up and marry. After her death a many year later she is said to have gone back to the spot of her horror ridden experience. They say that if you find yourself in the graveyard at night you can hear a child’s faint cry."
*Strawberry chapel and graveyard are now closed to the public. Due to vandalism the owners of the property have video surveillance on the property and a fence around it. Please respect them and the spirits of Strawberry Chapel and don’t trespass.
My take on it is this: I struggle with it, even though I do have my own proof. But it brings up my next question: if spirits exist and the dead can communicate, then obviously that means there are going to be malevolent spirits as well, right? So then should this definitively prove for me that God exists and I should start praying and whatnot? Christianity, God, and religion have never clicked for me. I've tried and tried going to church, praying, etc, but it just never clicked. I've never felt any God come and tell me I'm saved or whatever.
Sorry for the off-topic. But yeah, I think there -is- something out there. I'm very very curious about your being in the phobias thread though, pandy.
This post really creeped me out even though I kind of think OP is bsing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3nmxf2/guys_i_need_help_i_think_im_being_erased/
/r/nosleep is a subreddit for sharing fictional scary stories, but you have to pretend that everything posted there is true. It's essentially a storytelling/roleplaying sub that has some reeeaally good spoopy stories (including some of my very own!).
I have a cousin who can supposedly see the dead. When we were kids and went to our grandfather's wedding I was with him while he was "talking" to our grandfather under a tree. When I played at his house he would sometimes freak me out by refusing to go into one of the rooms and telling me "someone there doesn't want to be bothered". I vividly remember one time when we were playing video games and the door to the room caught wind and opened by itself. My cousin promptly screamed towards the empty air near the door saying "GET OUT, GET OUT NOW", which was enough to freak me the hell out. Another time something similar happened, we went into a room and he said to open air in a tiny voice "Get out please...", which was odd because I SAW him scream at something similar. I asked him about it once, he said that he spoke softly to nice "ghosts", and that some "ghosts" don't want to listen to him, so he yells at them. He also told me most of them look like normal people, but that he knows one who looks terrifying.
My cousin is a very religious person to this day. His experiences have greatly affected him growing up.
Where I come from there's also a traditional "game" called Jalangkung. I'm not going to explain it right now because it honestly creeps me out but you can Google it to see how it works. It's a lot like the Charlie Charlie Challenge except at least three times as spoopy and mixed with some Ouija shit. Why I'm sharing this is because this happened to my aunt (same side as my cousin, I have no idea what runs in this side of the family lol). So she played the game, and when the "spirit" asked her and her friends to take it home, she refused. The "spirit" asked them again to take it home and my aunt responded in the smoothest way possible by kicking the shrine over, ending the game prematurely. That night as she slept her bed began violently rocking itself. She flipped, screamed for her parents, and had someone from a mosque nearby come and "purify" the room that night.
Also a looot of cases of "possession" in my home country. Seen it happen like twice at school.
I've never experienced anything spoopy for myself so all of this is someone else's encounters. Ultimately I don't know what's out there, but there was this interesting article I read that said you have to actually attempt to make connection with spoopy things to sort of evoke them. So just, don't speak with the dead.
일산건마 ≪드라마≫ Opyo01。CoM 일산휴게텔【오피요】 장항오피 장항건마 장항동오피 일산오피 ≪드라마≫ Opyo01。CoM 일산휴게텔【오피요】 장항오피 장항건마 장항동오피
I don't know if there is anyone from South Carolina on here, but I heard about this urban legend:
Spoiler Show"In Berkeley county, South Carolina there are many legends on ghosts. Maybe the ghosts are due to the troubles brought by Revolutionary and Civil War battles, or due to the strife that many of the land’s inhabitants have seen over the centuries. Some will say it’s a mixture of all of these, while there are others who will dismiss the tales as mere stories fabricated by someone’s imagination.
This series is about the legend of Strawberry Chapel."
This is a picture I took of Strawberry Chapel. You will notice the fence in the lower right corner.
"According to the legend the chapel is haunted by the ghost of Catherine Chicken. The tale is a sad one. Catherine was the daughter of Captain George Chicken and Lydia Chicken. After her father died her mother remarried an influential plantation owner by the name of Elias Ball. It wasn’t long before Catherine, at the tender age of seven years, was sent off to the boarding school at Childsbury.
While at the boarding school Catherine was treated poorly by her caregivers the Dutarque’s. One day instead of doing her chores, Catherine began playing with her pet turtle and wandered off. Naturally this would give any caretaker alarm, but for the Dutarque’s the alarm wasn’t for Catherine’s welfare, it was for their own. If she was dead what would they tell her parents and the towns people of the town? The tale states that when Monsieur Dutarque found young Catherine she was sitting under a large oak tree in town playing with her turtle."
"Instead of relief Monsieur Dutarque became enraged at the sight of her well being and contentment. His anger carried his feet swiftly up to the tree and beside Catherine, startling her. When asked why she was there instead of inside doing her chores, little Catherine stated that she just wanted to be outside. Little Catherine didn’t have a chance against the rolling rage of Monsieur Dutarque. He cruelly snatched her up and dragged her by the arm to Strawberry Chapel and its graveyard."
'“So you want to be outside? Well, then you are going to have plenty of time outside!” The tale states Monsieur Dutarque as saying before coming to a stop in front of one the headstones."
"Taking out a rope he had brought with him Monsieur Dutarque did the unthinkable. He tied that lonely, little girl to the headstone standing up and left her there. Nightfall came and with it a damp cold. Cold and terrified Catherine started crying. When one of the townspeople heard her cries he recognized her voice and went to the Dutarque’s to check up on Catherine. Upon his arrival the Dutarque’s knew they would be in trouble if the town found out what they had done, so they insisted to their caller that Catherine was off visiting a relative. Suspicion grew as he talked to them, maybe it was their behavior, or the voice he recognized, or both. Whatever his reason for suspicion, one can’t say for sure, he rode straight to the relative’s house only to find that Catherine wasn’t there.
An alarm was raised and the people of Childsbury set out looking for little Catherine. By this time it was late in the evening and she was weak from terror and fatigue so her cries had grown faint and eventually, giving in to exhaustion, she fell asleep. If not for a slave who had been out illegally she might not have been found until daylight and quite possibly would have died that night. The brave slave, known as Money, took a shortcut through the cemetery back to where he was supposed to be. That’s when he saw her sleeping body straining against the rope as she hung from the headstone she had been tied to. Risking punishment for being out illegally he called out to members of the search party whom he saw off in the distance. That risk saved Catherine’s life."
"She was cut down from the headstone and carried to the town doctor. Before being cut down she was heard asking in a faint wisp of voice, “Monsieur Dutarque, why did you leave me here?” That wisp of a question let everyone in the town know who was responsible for Catherine’s predicament, causing them to hold captive the Dutarque’s. As you can imagine, there were many who wanted to lynch them right then and there but logic reasoned out and it was determined they would let the law handle the matter."
"For several days no one knew if Catherine would live. Her ordeal that night had left her tiny body wasted. As the days passed and she remained bedridden and unable to speak the town’s anger grew. When it was time for a trial she opened her eyes and told her mother not to let them harm the Dutargque’s. Her step father told the tribunal of her request and held firm that it was to be honored."
"The Dutarque’s did not go unpunished though. Madame Dutarque was ferried across the river and deposited on the shore and told never to return. Monsieur Dutarque’s fate was handled differently. The town’s people helped Catherine’s step father strip and then bound Dutarque backward to a mule. The mule and Monsieur Dutarque were chased out of town by the local militia’s drummers, causing the mule to kick and turn. The town’s people didn’t stop there though. Following behind the mule they threw rocks, fruit, eggs and anything else they could find at the horrible monsieur. It was only after the townspeople were done with their judgement that they ferried both the mule and the sadistic Dutarque across river. Once on the shore the mule was struck with a whip causing the mule to take off into the wilderness with Dutarque still strapped to him; his fate left up to Mother Nature and the natives."
"Catherine did recover to grow up and marry. After her death a many year later she is said to have gone back to the spot of her horror ridden experience. They say that if you find yourself in the graveyard at night you can hear a child’s faint cry."
*Strawberry chapel and graveyard are now closed to the public. Due to vandalism the owners of the property have video surveillance on the property and a fence around it. Please respect them and the spirits of Strawberry Chapel and don’t trespass.
I basically found it on somebody's post, the blogger's name was Violettempest or something like that.
But, can you imagine seeing a ghost? I've heard Charleston is notorious for them and maybe Catherine Chicken is still haunting the place where she was tied up, but I wouldn't feel right going to the grave of where she was tied up to her teacher just to see her ghost.
I do believe she is haunting this place and it's also possible she might be haunting a local plantation turned into a bed and breakfast, I can't seem to find the name of it. I think it was Magnolia something.