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* The ShortStory collection ''Literature/{{Stitches}}'' features several stories in which the main character encounters or directly interacts with ghosts in one way or another, such as "Library" where the main character and several of her classmates see the apparition of a young girl running around inside the school library, and "The Kimono", where the main character encounters the ghost of her long-dead sister.
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->''"...And every year on the date of the accident, it runs again as a warning to others, plunging into the gap, shrieking like a lost soul!"''
-->-- '''Percy''', ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', "Ghost Train"


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* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' LOVES this trope:
** The aptly-titled "Ghost Train" opens with a story told by Percy about a steam train that got into an accident and, every year on "the date of the accident", runs in ghostly form as a warning to other trains. Thomas brushes this story off and Percy's driver, who told Percy the story, admits that it was "a pretend ghost" he saw on TV.
** In "Duncan Gets Spooked", Duncan pokes fun at Peter Sam for letting his slate trucks break away and fall off a bridge, joking that they'll "come back to spook him and his special funnel". In retaliation, Rusty decides to give Duncan a little scare by telling him a story about an engine who fell off the same bridge and, in the afterlife, attempts to cross the bridge, but never reaches the other side.
** Edward seems fond of telling ghost stories during Halloween, as seen in "Scaredy Engines".
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Not to be confused with [[Literature/GhostStory book 13]] of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Creator/PeterStraub novel or its film adaptation, the Music/{{Coldplay}} [[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum album]], or the anime called ''Anime/GhostStories''. Super-trope to ScarilySpecificStory.

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Not to be confused with [[Literature/GhostStory book 13]] of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Creator/PeterStraub novel [[Literature/GhostStory1979 novel]] or its film adaptation, the Music/{{Coldplay}} [[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum album]], the film ''Film/AGhostStory'', the webcomic ''Webcomic/AGhostStory'', or the anime called ''Anime/GhostStories''. Super-trope to ScarilySpecificStory.
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* ''Theatre/TouMyu'': The second ''Shinkenranbu Sai'' event concerns the Touken Danshi attempting the ''Hyakku Monogatari'' -- a challenge where each participant goes round robin and tells a scary/supernatural story until they've finished 100 tales -- on a winter evening to warm themselves up. Most stories they tell are trivia about themselves or places their masters or smiths have been, such as Kogitsunemaru telling the myth about how he was forged or Mikazuki Munechika talking about the execution grounds near Sanjou Bridge and the RiddleForTheAges surrounding who took Kondou Isami's decapitated head.

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* ''Theatre/TouMyu'': ''Theatre/MusicalToukenRanbu'': The second ''Shinkenranbu Sai'' event concerns the Touken Danshi attempting the ''Hyakku Monogatari'' -- a challenge where each participant goes round robin and tells a scary/supernatural story until they've finished 100 tales -- on a winter evening to warm themselves up. Most stories they tell are trivia about themselves or places their masters or smiths have been, such as Kogitsunemaru telling the myth about how he was forged or Mikazuki Munechika talking about the execution grounds near Sanjou Bridge and the RiddleForTheAges surrounding who took Kondou Isami's decapitated head.
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* The very first recorded ghost story comes from Pliney the Younger, a famous lawyer in Ancient Rome. He spent the night at a haunted villa, and met the specter, a man wrapped in chains. The ghost led him to a certain spot and disappeared. When Pliney ordered the spot dug up, the laborers found a skeleton wrapped in chains. Once the body was buried properly, the haunting ceased.

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* The very first recorded ghost story comes from Pliney the Younger, a famous lawyer in Ancient Rome. He spent the night at a haunted villa, and met the specter, a man wrapped in chains. The ghost led him to a certain spot and disappeared. When Pliney ordered the spot dug up, the laborers found a skeleton wrapped in chains. [[GhostlyGoals Once the body was buried properly, the haunting ceased.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E9TheWormTurnsLittleDogLost The Worm Turns]]," Grandpa Nat tells the kids a scary story about giant ice worms. After the power goes out, the kids think that the ice worms ate the power lines.
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* ''WebVideo/UnwantedHouseguest'': A lot of his "TRUE Scary Stories" are these.
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Not to be confused with [[Literature/GhostStory book 13]] of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Creator/PeterStraub novel or its film adaptation, the Music/{{Coldplay}} album, or the anime called ''Anime/GhostStories''. Super-trope to ScarilySpecificStory.

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Not to be confused with [[Literature/GhostStory book 13]] of ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Creator/PeterStraub novel or its film adaptation, the Music/{{Coldplay}} album, [[Music/GhostStoriesAlbum album]], or the anime called ''Anime/GhostStories''. Super-trope to ScarilySpecificStory.
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''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': One of the main types of monster the Winchester Brothers' hunt is ghosts or angry spirits. Very often, the early scenes in any ghost episode have the brothers researching local lore and people telling them of ghost stories they heard or even scenes of the story being told.

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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': One of the main types of monster the Winchester Brothers' hunt is ghosts or angry spirits. Very often, the early scenes in any ghost episode have the brothers researching local lore and people telling them of ghost stories they heard or even and several episodes contain scenes of the story being told.
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''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': One of the main types of monster the Winchester Brothers' hunt is ghosts or angry spirits. Very often, the early scenes in any ghost episode have the brothers researching local lore and people telling them of ghost stories they heard or even scenes of the story being told.

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