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* ''Music/GhostStoriesAlbum'': The 2014 album by Music/{{Coldplay}}.

* ''Literature/GhostStories'': A series of short stories and novels by Creator/SeananMcGuire about a ghost named Rose Marshall.

* ''Fanfic/GhostStories'': A {{Crossover}} FanFic between ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' and ''Film/TheAvengers''.

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''GhostStories'' (alt title: ''School Ghost Stories'' or ''Gakkou no Kaidan'') is a twenty episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Pierrot and Aniplex for Fuji Television, loosely based on a book series by Toru Tsunemitsu. It tells the story of Satsuki Miyanoshita, who moves with her family to the hometown of her deceased mother, Kayako. On her first day of school, Satsuki; her brother Keiichirou, a first-grader; their neighbor Hajime Aoyama; Momoko Koigakubo, an older schoolmate; and Reo Kakinoki, a classmate and friend of Hajime's with a penchant for the paranormal visit the OldSchoolBuilding adjacent to the current school complex and discover that the building is haunted.

It is soon after revealed that Satsuki's mother was responsible for sealing several ghosts who haunted not only the school but also the town, and [[SealedEvilInACan now they are released due to the urbanization taking place in the surrounding area]]. Kayako left behind a book detailing how to exorcize the ghosts once and for all. In her first confrontation, Satsuki faces a demon called Amanojaku, but in the process Amanojaku is sealed within Satsuki's pet cat, Kaya. Although Amanojaku does not want to help Satsuki at first, the danger soon threatens to envelop the town and it is left up to Satsuki, her friends and Amanojaku to stop the ghosts.

The ADV Films GagDub could be the most entertaining aspect of this series, making it SoBadItsGood. Not to say that people didn't [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks complain about the changes]], though. YourMileageMayVary. Now available legally on [[http://www.youtube.com/show/ghoststories YouTube]].

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!! This anime contains examples of:
* AbsenteeActor: Momoko doesn't appear in episode 15 for no apparent reason.
* ActorAllusion: In the GagDub, Satsuki answers a call with "Milk-chan here", even doing the same voice. More direct references also fly in the dub, such as Satsuki commenting that Leo's developed a bigger ego than ChrisPatton and the entire cast referring to Satsuki's father by his voice actor's name in one episode.
* AdultsAreUseless: No kidding. The only adult characters that ever helped the protagonists were a bumbling teacher in episode 18, and a night watchman in episode 16, [[spoiler: who then turned to be another ghost]].
* AgentMulder: Reo.
* AnimationAgeGhetto: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpSvRc7pNbI Ignored completely]] in the GagDub.
* AxCrazy: The Headless Biker goes in a chaotic rampage during the birthday of his death, cutting off everything that resembles a head.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Main plot of episode 3. Also explored in episode 15.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Yuki.]]
* BilingualBonus: The hispanic nurse in the dub of episode 12 calls Momoka and Satsuki "fuckers" or "assholes", depending on how you define "cabronas".
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Shinobu, after she reveals to Satsuki her (more or less) true form.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The dub.
* BreastExpansion: The GagDub subverts this. Satsuki tries to get a wish granting ghost to give her "huge boobs", but does it wrong so it doesn't happen.
* ButtMonkey: Reo and Sakata the schoolteacher.
* CameBackWrong: The whole premise of episode 9.
* TheCanKickedHim: Akagami-Aogami's M.O.
* CatsAreMean: Or at least when they are possessed by a cynical demon with a sadistic sense of humor.
* ChaosArchitecture: The haunted building of episode 16 had a bizarre ability of change its own structure, both internal and external, to the point that there was even one scene where the group thought they were in a residencial neighborhood, while in reality ''they were getting inside the building''.
* ClicheStorm: ''Every'' horror cliche gets used at some point in this series, naturally lampshaded in the GagDub.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Momoko in the original version. Certain things that she says are impossible to have come from a sane person, sometimes she seems too oblivious to realize what is going on and in some episode she states that the sole reason of she having a cell phone is that [[NoSenseOfDirection she gets lost easily.]]
* CreepyDoll: Mary turned to 11.
* DealWithTheDevil: Episode 15 is entirely about this.
* DemBones: The ghost Da Vinci.
* DubNameChange: In the Spanish dub:
** Satsuki becomes Claire
** Hajime becomes Ned
** Momoko becomes Nicole
** Reo becomes Paul
** Keichirou becomes Ben
** Kayako becomes Karen
** Reichirou (Satsuki and Keichirou's father) becomes Richard
* EldritchAbomination: Yamime sounds to be one.
* EmotionEater: Amanojaku in the first episode. He feeds on the kids' fear to become more powerful so he can attack them.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: In episode nine after an {{Aesop}} about [[GagDub paying child support on time]].
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: ''School Ghost Stories'' is about... a school haunted by ghosts.
* EyeScream: ALMOST happens with Satsuki when Mary and a squad of possessed toys decide to "play" with her.
* {{Fanservice}}: Aside from the numerous {{Panty Shot}}s, the show has very little of this aside from two brief scenes in the opening theme, one with all the gang jumping into a lake and [[http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg149/BiaHoshigo/Swimsuit%20Boys/sexyswimsuitboy.png?t=1278720168 one of Hajime thrown in for no apparent reason]].
* FiveManBand:
** {{The Hero}}ine: Satsuki
** TheLancer: Hajime
** TheSmartGuy: Reo... sorta. He's got lots of booksmarts and technical knowledge, but is the one with MORE WhatAnIdiot moments due to [[WhatWereyouThinking his lack of common sense]]
** TheBigGuy ''and'' TheChick: Momoko. She's a sweet IllGirl ''and'' a DistressedDamsel, but is also the tallest and oldest of the group ''and'' has channeled powerful spirits (specifically, Satsuki's mother's ghost) multiple times.
** TagalongKid: Keiichirou
** {{The Mentor}}s: Amanojyaku (also TeamPet) and Kayako
** SixthRanger: Kayako, from beyond the grave. Usually by possessing Momoko's body.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: This is practically what happened to Shinobu when we learn that she was once a normal girl before she was turned into the avatar of a malevolent trickster deity.]]
* FieryRedhead: Satsuki.
* FourIsDeath: Some of the earlier episodes use this idea on curses. Also was used as a solution to a problem in [[spoiler: Episode 18]].
* FridgeHorror: What ever happened to the one shot ghost victims we see during the prologue sequences, or sometimes in the middle of the episode? Sure we are told a few times that someone got sick or was too scared to say anything. But come to think of it, we never really SEE them again, and quite a few times, it seems VERY unlikely that the victim actually survived. Made even scarier by the fact that nobody seems to care too much.
** Lampshaded in the Dub with Hajime offhandedly saying Keita (the victim of the week) died and it not being brought up again.
* TheFundamentalist: Momoko in the English version of the anime... Oh, so much.
* GagDub: One of the most famous official ones that isn't an AbridgedSeries.
* GameFace: Played with some ghosts, particularly [[spoiler: Shinobu]] and [[spoiler: the girl who Reo meets in Episode 8.]]
* HauntedHeadquarters
* HairRaisingHare: Shirotabi
* HeadlessHorseman: Episode 19 features a headless biker.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: In Episode 5, Dattou stops his evil self from cutting off Keichirou's legs when he realizes how Keichirou reminded himself when he was alive.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The watchman from episode 16, who in reality was already dead but his soul was still trapped in the building]]
** Also happens with [[spoiler: Amanojaku]] in the last episode. [[spoiler: [[ItGotBetter He gets better]] though.]]
* HypocriticalHumour: The dub has a lot of it, especially in episode 4, at least twice it happens, one with the overly religious Momoko noting that there are some crazy religious people out there... She's one herself. And Reo/Leo hates it when people lie on their internet profile, which he does in the dub.
* ImplacableMan: Some of the ghosts qualify this. Special mention to Babasare and Mary the Doll, who only stopped chasing the protagonists because they had pure sheer luck.
* IntercourseWithYou: The ending theme. (I thought they made this show for kids?)
** [[EarWorm "Yuurishite, yuurushite, yuurushite, yuurushite! SEXY SEXY"]]
* InvisibleToAdults: Babasare.
* LullDestruction: Used frequently in the dub to turn boring moments into successful humor. A good example is in Episode 15, where Yamime goes "Wheeee!" when floating up the stairs, then casually humming a tune while removing the barricade from the bedroom door.
* MamaBear: Kayako. From beyond the grave.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Shinobu]] and [[spoiler:Yuki.]]
* TheMillstone: Occasionally Reo is the reason why the gang keeps being chased or cursed by the ghosts. A good example happens in episode 14 where he almost makes a vengeful ghost kill Momoko because he thought it would be a ''fantastic'' idea to snap photos where said ghost had died.
* MindControl: One of Ohma's abilities. He tries to kill Satsuki and Keichirou by making Satsuki's classmates attack them with knives.
* MindScrew: The Headless Biker freaks out one of his would-be victims so badly that the poor bastard gets insane and stabs his own neck so the Headless Biker ''wouldn't try to cut his head off again''.
* MissingEpisode: An episode about the Kuchisaki-Onna was never aired, as the creature has a deformed mouth and it was deemed insensitive to people with cleft palates.
* ModestyShorts: Satsuki Miyanoshita wears them one episode after she gets tired of skirt fliping by Hajime.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Fairly obvious and ''said verbatim in the dub''.
* MoodWhiplash: In episode 6, the opening with a boy screaming after a hooded figure arrives on his doorstep immediately cuts to the happy theme song. It can be quite jarring.
* MurderousMannequin: Episode 16 features an army of quite creepy mannequins.
* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** Satsuki: TomokoKawakami and HillaryHaag
** Hajime: TakakoHonda and ChrisPatton
** Momoko: KumiSakuma and MonicaRial
** Leo: GregAyres
** Keichiro: ChristineAuten
** Amanojaku: RyuseiNakao
** Kayako: KotonoMitsuishi
* NightmareFuel: let's see, Episodes 1-20.
* NobleDemon: Amanojaku acts as a total JerkAss in the beginning, but as the series progresses he starts helping Satsuki more and more in fighting against the ghosts, even though he still acts like he wanted to see her in despair. In one episode he states that he dislike humans, but hates much more ghosts [[ForTheEvulz who harm people on purpose]].
* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Inserted in the dub, during [[spoiler: Shizuko's flashback to Momoko. The taxi driver does it after hitting her with the cab.]]
* ObliviouslyEvil: Mary. She doesn't seem to realize that she nearly drove Satsuki to madness for stalking her in an utter absurd level and that she almost killed Satsuki as well when she suggested the other toys to dismember Satsuki as they were just playing a game.
* OffModel: Done deliberately in episode 7 with the mirror people, to make them look creepier.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Shirotabi's curse kind of resembles a classic werewolf curse: She only turns in her demonic form at night, and the form itself somewhat looks a werewolf.
* PantyShot: Multiple ones.
** Hilariously, gets a ContinuityNod multiple times in the first few episodes, but then, in one of the episodes (Bloody Sports Festival), she wears a different type of underwear, gym shorts.
* ParentalIncest: The dub. Time travel. "She thought I was attractive. That is so... grossing me out."
* PrecisionFStrike: Starting in episode 15 in the dub.
* PutOnABus: It happens with the friendlier and more harmless ghosts of the old school building.
* ReplicantSnatching: Episode 7 was about a group of evil spirits residing in a dimension beyond the mirror who tried to abduct everyone in town and impersonate them once the originals were trapped in the other dimension.
* RightOnTheTick: In episode 5, there's a ghost who is said to always kill a runner at the sports festival at 4:44. (At least according to the gag dub).
* RuleOfScary: Boy, where to start...
* SealedEvilInACan: All the ghosts who had been sealed away by Kayako get free after the construction sites destroy the places where they had been imprisoned.
* SelfDeprecation: Satsuki and Momoko diss GregAyres and ChrisPatton in episode 3, guess who two members of the FiveManBand are voiced by.
* ShesAManInJapan: Inverted. (He's a Woman in Japan?) Momoko's hairstylist cousin Maki was a woman in the original version, but was changed to a CampGay man in the dub.
* {{Shinigami}}: Death Nurse from episode 12 is implied to be one.
* SitcomArchNemesis: [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Hadley]] to Sakata in the dub.
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: Shinobu Matsuda/Yamime]]
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick: Amanojaku.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Reo was changed to Leo in the dub. It's possible that his name was actually supposed to be Leo, considering that he writes it in katakana.
* StrangeGirl: Satsuki. Albeit her case can be a subversion since she is a normal-looking girl, her routine usually involves her and her friends facing supernatural menaces, not to count her friends include an air-headed chick with mediunic powers and a geek obsessed with the paranormal, and her pet cat is unwillingly trapping a snarky demon.
* StringyHairedGhostGirl: Episodes 14 and 18 feature one.
* TakeThat: Makes up quite a few of the jokes
* TheTaxi: Episode 10.
* TragicVillain: The Railway Ghost and [[spoiler:Yuki]].
* TricksterMentor: Amanojaku.
* TheUnintelligible: Keichiro in the dub is capable of talking normally, but get him emotional and he reverts to unintelligible babbling.
--->'''Keichiro''': AH...ABADABADA-
--->'''Amanojyaku''': Please! SPEAK!
** The DVD Release invokes this with the "Dubtitles" subtitles track, where Keichiro's dialogue is often listed as either [[[FunWithSubtitles Gibberish]]] or [[[InelegantBlubbering Keichiro Sob]]] and after about episode 4, [Keichiro Sob [[TradeSnark ™]]].
* VerbalTic: Leo in the dub, yeah.
* WeirdnessMagnet: Satsuki, to the point that Hajime even lampshades this in episode 11 by saying that she attracts anything that it is not human.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Satsuki and Keichirou's grandparents. They appear in one very brief scene in episode 1, and then they aren't seen or mentioned in the further episodes. Funny enough since [[http://i30.tinypic.com/23uskye.jpg they appear in the series' intro]] along with the main characters and supporting characters like Sakata and the school principal.
** They also appear in the photo album during the flashback/letter reading in episode 12 (about the cursed nurse).

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* YamatoNadeshiko: Momoko.

''GhostStories'' (alt title: ''School Ghost Stories'' or ''Gakkou no Kaidan'') is a twenty episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Pierrot and Aniplex for Fuji Television, loosely based on a book series by Toru Tsunemitsu. It tells the story of Satsuki Miyanoshita, who moves with her family to the hometown of her deceased mother, Kayako. On her first day of school, Satsuki; her brother Keiichirou, a first-grader; their neighbor Hajime Aoyama; Momoko Koigakubo, an older schoolmate; and Reo Kakinoki, a classmate and friend of Hajime's with a penchant for the paranormal visit the abandoned school building adjacent the current school complex and discover that the building is haunted.

* [[spoiler: AudioErotica: The 19th episode of the dub version had Satsuki ''moaning'' while capturing a ghost. One wonders why Hilary Haag thought of this.]]

* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Inserted in the dub,

* LullDestruction: Used frequently in the dub to turn boring moments into successful humor.

* NightmareFuel: let's see, Episodes 1-20.

* KillerRabbit: Shirotabi is a very literal example of this trope.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Sakata in the dub considers fellow teacher [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Hadley this]].