http://www.saviodsilva.com/09/ghoststories10.htm
http://ghost.new-age-spirituality.com/
http://paranormal.lovetoknow.com/True_Short_Ghost_Stories
http://shortstories.hopcott.net/
http://www.nbuy.com/party/story_download.html
http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Short-Ghost-Story/165122
http://www.skyatdusk.com/WhereTheFourWindsMeet/ghost-story-5.html
http://www.angelsghosts.com/short_ghost_stories
http://www.ghostsandstories.com/short-ghost-stories-the-classics.html
http://www.trueghosttales.com/stories/short-ghost-stories-2.php
http://www.bahasa-malaysia-simple-fun.com/short-ghost-stories.html
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My father used to tell a story about the “Seaweed Monster” when we were living in Colorado. It would walk across the ocean floor, ever so slowly. Then it would come up on the beach, and walk across all the states. Then it would come up our street, and knock on the door. Then it would catch and eat us, of course.

While I do not know any specific ghost stories to tell around the campfire, there is a reason for that. I feel that the best ones are completely made up on the spot. Add in a zombie, a vampire, a serial killer or two, and you have yourself a winner.

TIPS: Speak quietly, until the moment the creature / killer / zombie strikes. Then yell really loud and move your feet and hands to create confusion. The most effective campfire stories take place in THAT location. “You know, they say that twenty years ago a kid went crazy down at the lake and killed his family. Leged has it that he came up here to hide from the authorities, and lives here to this day.” That type of thing works VERY well.

BOO!
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I have always thought the short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to be great for retelling - you can always make them slightly different but wow, that man had a weird imagination.

I've sourced a page which lists some his stories and a short synopsis of each. There are others but this is a good list.
http://www.poestories.com/stories.php

I spent ages there the other day re-acquainting myself to his horrors :)

wow, cool pic!
Source(s):
http://www.poestories.com/stories.php

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In American-Folclore/Halloween you can find many short stories!
"Ghosts and ghoulies and the devil come out to play in this collection of the scariest stories published on American Folklore. Great for Halloween!"

Source(s):
http://www.americanfolklore.net/halloween.html

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if you are with a group of friends tell the story of SAW but rather than telling you can choose to see the film it will be more effective
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Plane Crash Ghost

Copyright 1999

Back in the late '70s I was an insurance fraud investigator. In
between the more interesting cases we would conduct Product Liability
and accident investigations to pay the bills. One of these was the
investigation of a plane crash in the very northern tip of the state
of California. The small airport in this town had a runway that was in
an East/West orientation to take advantage of the prevailing winds. On
the westerly end, the runway ended at the edge of the cliffs above the
Pacific. Approximately a half mile off the end of this runway was a
small rock island standing alone as it rose about 150 feet above the
water; perhaps a half acre in size. No human had stepped foot on it in
90 years as it was an official bird sanctuary. One clear morning, an
experienced pilot who lived in this town and who had flown countless
times from this airport, took off into the west and proceeded to slam
his airplane into this small island; it was our job to find out why.
We helicoptered out to the island two days later to start our
investigation, having to jump off the skids into the foot-deep bird
guano with our camera and measuring equipment. While taking a picture
of one of the pilot's eyeballs that had been flung into the side of a
guano-encrusted rock just past the point of impact, I felt the
presence of someone immediately to my right. Thinking it was my
partner, I continued to photograph this eye from various angles as I
made small talk with my partner, trying not to think too much about
what I was doing and what I was photographing because that's the only
way one can do this kind of work while remaining emotionally
dispassionate. Having gotten my shots, I turned while rewinding the
film back into my Nikon's cassette only to see a stranger standing 2
feet away with this curious look on his face. "What are you doing
here?" was all I could think to ask, noting my partner was about a
hundred feet away with his back turned as he too went about his work.
He didn't answer me and just turned around and walked to the broken
cockpit of the Piper, turning translucent then transparent as he
walked through the out structure of the plane. I wanted to call out to
my partner so he could see this but it was too late and I never
mentioned this neither to him nor did I put it in my final report
(DUH!).
After all facts were gathered it was determined to be caused by "pilot
error" but I never felt good about that. However, no mechanical reason
could be found for him flying straight into this rock that he was all
too familiar with on a clear day. I wish now he could have
communicated to me at that time in some way what did cause the
accident because the insurance company denied his family any
compensation due to the "pilot error" verdict. That wasn't the only
time I felt accident victims at the scene of the incidents I would
then be sent to investigate but he was certainly the most "solid"
entity I've run into.
Source(s):
http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/3549/planecrash.htm

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