I've been working on Halloween stories for the last two weeks and decided yesterday that I was going to also compile some 'True' Ghost & Paranormal stuff together for the annual Halloween 'True Story' thread on Reddit. So I started listing various items of non-fictional weirdness together and then sorted it out chronologically, so it makes at least some sense.
I might also send the 'bigfoot encounter' bit off to Buckeye Bigfoot for her to read. I didn't think much of the encounter at the time, but compared to most of the 'bigfoot crossed the road in front of me' stories I've heard lately, this story might be a bit more interesting to some listeners.
A couple of stories, like the Alcatraz school trip, I've written about before, on FARK and as comments on several paranormal and High Strangeness discussion boards. At least one of these true stories has also been the topic of discussion on someone's YouTube channel podcast (with permission), but this is the first time I've tried to compile everything all together, in one story.
This story, "My (True) Ghost & Paranormal Stories" is not a fictional one, like the nearly 100 other tales that I have posted here (under several author names). This one has has the additional added benefit of being entirely and completely true.
Last year's hard brush with mortality has made me want to just kick back and tell other's about just a few of the various weird things that have happened in my life, just so that the stories might be remembered, and not lost entirely to time. And what better time to tell 'weird ghost stories' than Halloween!
There's quite a few episodes of WTF-ness listed, but given time, and a clear head, I could easily double the size of this account... but I probably won't. Anything else would probably be too 'meah' to be worth the time to either write or read. I think I covered the main most interesting bits.
Again, these are just a few things that I figuratively and literally wanted to get off my chest before I check-out for good (not soon, I hope). Think of this as telling stories at night with friends around a campfire. You don't need to believe me, but remember some of the weirdest tales are true ones!
More stuff (Halloween) to be posted soon, and the next chapters of a few other pending things have their wheels slowly grinding now too.
Having a day or two to think again about things, and reviewing what I'd posted, I've made a few tweaks today to the 'My (True) Ghost Stories' tale. For starters, I cleaned up a few typos and added more details to several of the encounters (like the bigfoot stories) - things I'd forgotten to add when originally writing this. It's pretty complete now, so I won't add anything new to it from now on.
The next (long overdue) chapter to 'Now is All We Have' is posted. Now, I'm back to working on more Halloween stuff. I had a decent day today and got about eight hours of good writing time in!