Amish Ghost Stories

In the video below, Eric Evangelista took Jeff Belanger's retelling of two traditional Amish ghost stories and shared them in the television series, Amish Hauntings.

This production is an impressive reenactment of these traditional Amish ghost stories. The first story is about a group of teenage “Legend Trippers” who visit a bridge with a traditional “Crybaby Bridge” legend connected to it.

A Deacon’s son and his friend taunt the Devil, which leads to a truly terrifying encounter with this fabled ghost.

Another Cry Baby story, Crybaby Bridge: Monmouth, Illinois can be read here.

The second Amish ghost story shared on this video is entitled, The Witch’s Tree. It is about an Amish woodworker who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This man defies a Bishop’s orders to burn a fallen tree--instead he uses the wood in his trade. 

He lives to regret this, for his action unleashes a menacing evil curse that had been placed on the community 100 years before.

The episode with both stories first aired in October of 2014. It can be found on Amazon Video under "Amish Haunting" Season 1,  Episode Two--Cry Baby Bridge and Witches Tree.

Amish Ghost Stories

Eric Evangelista took Jeff Belanger's retelling of two traditional Amish ghost stories and shared them in the television series, Amish Hauntings.

This production is a dramatic reenactment of these traditional Amish ghost stories. The first story is about a group of teenage “Legend Trippers” who visit a bridge with a traditional “Crybaby Bridge” legend connected to it. A preview of this story is in the video below.

A Deacon’s son and his friend taunt the Devil, which leads to a genuinely terrifying encounter with this fabled ghost.

Another Cry Baby story, Crybaby Bridge: Monmouth, Illinois can be read here.

The second Amish ghost story shared on this video is entitled, The Witch’s Tree. It is about an Amish woodworker who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This man defies a Bishop’s orders to burn a fallen tree--instead, he uses the wood in his trade. 

He lives to regret this, for his action unleashes a menacing evil curse that had been placed on the community 100 years before.

The episode with both stories first aired in October of 2014. It can be found on Amazon Video under "Amish Ghost Stories."

Here is a preview of this show.

Inspiration for Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary”

Stephen King wrote his horror novel Pet Sematary in 1983. Most fans know King was inspired to write his novel The Shining after staying at one of America’s most haunted “The Stanley Hotel” located in Estes Park, Colorado. He wrote The Shining while he lived in Boulder, Colorado not far from Estes Park. 

But what many people do not know is his visit also inspired him to write Pet Sematary. The Stanley has a very discrete Pet Cemetery on its’ grounds.

The Stanley Hotel is made up of several large buildings. The Main hotel is the one most often photographed. All of the buildings on the property are considered haunted. 

One building to the west of the main hotel has served as a resident for many of the past managers and their families. The little pet cemetery that can be found just down the hill from the main hotel was established when these managers started to bury their beloved pets in this area.

There are twelve markers in this little graveyard for: Casey, Comanche 1974-86, Elsie, Holmes 1984-86, Jeavens 1974-76, Maynard 1984-86, Blue Stanley l 1977-79, Blue Stanley ll and Blue Stanley lll. There are also two RIP’s and one unmarked grave.

Stephen King while staying at the hotel in the 1970’s discovered this little cemetery--hence his book.

In November of this year, 2013 a limited 30^th Anniversary edition of Pet Sematary is being released.

My Group and I have investigated The Stanley Hotel several times, in future posts I will write about our experiences.

The following video is Jeff Belanger at the Pet Cemetery at The Stanley. I have done an investigation with him at The Stanley. He has a great sense of humor.