The story is fun and spooky and was always a Halloween favourite at school. The author uses the 'what happens next' hook extremely well and it does hook the reader. The main character finds a hairy toe and decides to keep it, nothing wrong with that surely? I don't want to disclose too much of the story and spoil it!! Every time the wife moved to a new location, the husband's ghost found her and haunted her. After moving around to 5 or 6 places, the wife gathered her courage to ask her husband's ghost what it wanted. Meateater campfire stories include The Hairy Toe. The story is about an old woman who finds a hairy toe in the woods and eats it for dinner. The bottom of the staircase past the hallway read, "Do not climb the stairs," and the door which was not supposed to be opened made an ominous creek when pushed by the old lady. In the last room, there lay a big wooden coffin-like box that was not supposed to be opened either.

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The story starts when an old woman who always goes to the woods to walk her dog decided to take a new path. She encounters a bright green slimly notice warning people not to go to the haunted castle at midnight. The story is about a Spanish exploration ship that stumbles upon heaps of gold and treasure during its voyage to the newfound land across the Atlantic. However, the temptation of gold and riches gets the better of the sailors, and they resort to mutiny tying their captain Sandovate to the mast of the ship. Most kids love a good play on words, and this uncanny story about a coffin chasing a man all the way from the cemetery to his bathroom ends with the king daddy of all puns. As you tell the tale, be sure to emphasize the scary BUMP BUMP BUMP sound the coffin makes as it clomps down the street following the poor fellow. You might even want to have a bottle of cough syrup ready to hold up, too, showing what the man throws to stop the coffin. ( They'll love it. Trust us.) Yellow Ribbon As you read and reread the book, encourage children to join in, especially with the repeated phrases. They will be able to read more by themselves as you reread the book together. Talk about the story The Vanishing Hitchhiker is also sometimes titled Lavender. The story is about a young girl who asks for a lift to get home.

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She decided to go to the castle that very night, and when she reached the door of the castle, there was another notice warning people not to enter. She found another similar notice when she reached the hallway. She claimed the three flights of stairs and reached the room, she opened the door very slowly and crept inside, and reached for her books. She got a metallic smell and heard something dripping inside the room, she thought the faucet might have started to leak. The American story takes place in the then-little hamlet of Spiegletown. A couple was returning from their trip to New England when darkness crept upon them and they had to find a shelter for the night.

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From the woods there came a stomp-stomp-stomping noise as the wind whistled and jerked at the treetops. In the clearing at the edge of the forest, a hollow voice said: “Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!” Inside the house, the old woman shuddered and turned over in her sleep. Campfire spooky stories are sure to bring kids and adults to the edge of their seats alike. Ghost Ship of Captain Sandovate is one such spooky story. The Big Toe is a scary story for kids about a young boy who unearths a mysterious toe in his garden. It is based on a classic American folk tale and is sometimes known as “The Hairy Toe” or “The Skinny Toe”. A version of this story appeared in Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark.Using a shoebox, children can decorate the inside to make a scary scene, such as a creepy old house, a castle dungeon, a dark forest. Add objects which have scary potential and use to tell scary stories, eg toy cat or wolf/monster/hat/mask/fang/ghost/a pretend toe or finger, potion or candle/a key. Children can add or remove objects to make different stories. Tell a scary story If you're hosting a gathering of older kids, this is the urban legend for you. Like "The Lady with the Emerald Ring" and "Yellow Ribbon," you can have fun stretching the story out, building the suspense the longer it goes. The story of a couple who park in Lover's Lane, ignoring reports of an escaped killer from a local asylum, it ends with the kind of scare that will have kids jumping out of the their sleeping bags. The Thing at the Foot of the Bed

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looks nice piece of meat,” she said. “I’ll put it in the soup and we’ll have it for dinner.” Short and (not quite so) sweet, this is a cautionary tale for little ones about an old man who awakens in terror at the thing he sees lurking at the foot of his bed. He takes drastic action instead of investigating, much to his regret. Both spooky and amusing, this story could help kids understand that the scary things at night they think they see in their closet and under the bed are just figments of their imagination. Fifty-Cent PieceThis story can be read out loud to children in a very animated fashion, which children tend to love. Children can get involved in the story as it is being told. Children can dress up and make a hairy toe storyprop to act out the story as they tell it. Play it to friends and upload to YouTube! Make a story box