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RV and Camping Resources

Scary ghost stories and campfire tall tales make camping fun! Read your favorite scary camping stories below, or browse the handy RV and camping resources to help make your trips easy and memorable.


The Spooky Series

Scary Camping Stories

    Ghost Stories & Spooky Tales

  • The Army of the Dead
    The ghosts of the Confederate Army still march through Charleston, South Carolina.

  • Bear Lake Monster
    Be careful swimming in Bear Lake! (Utah)

  • The Black Dog of Hanging Hills
    A black dog haunts Meriden, CT . A version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

  • Black Bartelmy's Ghost
    Black Bartelmy was an evil, surly buccaneer who murdered his wife and children and went to sea with a band of pirates as nasty as he. (Nova Scotia)

  • The Bloodstain
    A murdered man haunts the house where he was killed.

  • The Bloody Knife
    Many and many a year ago, two Micmac warriors from rival villages got into a terrible argument. Harsh words were exchanged and then knives were pulled. (Nova Scotia)

  • The Cursing of Colonel Buck
    A witch's curse haunts the colonel long after death.

  • The Cut-Off
    A Louisiana riverboat captain is trapped forever in a cut-off. A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky South.

  • The Dance
    A girl learns the hard way that you should never dance with the devil. (Texas)

  • The Death Coach

    • The Death Coach comes for a dying man.

  • The Devil On Washington Rock
    The Devil appears in a dream...and other places.

  • The Devil's Hole
    A strange horse is sent to a priest to aid him in the building of a new church. (Quebec)

  • The Doctor and the Ghost
    A ghost helps a doctor save his patient. (Utah)

  • Eavesdropper
    A Maryland man learns a hard lesson about eavesdropping.

  • The Fifty-cent Piece
    A couple spend a night at a haunted house. (New York)

  • The Flying Canoe
    A group of lonely lumberjacks pay a bitter price when they go home for New Years. (Quebec)

  • The Ghost on the Tracks
    Engineers, beware! There is a flirtatious female ghost aboard the the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.

  • Ghost Handprints
    Ghosts rescue a car stuck on the railroad tracks.

  • Ghost Train
    A Ghost Train appears on the tracks three miles outside of Medicine Hat, Alberta.

  • The Grave
    A woman haunts her burial ground.

  • The Headless Horseman
    A headless Hessian gallops forth from the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, scaring the locals.

  • Henry Hudson and the Catskill Gnomes
    Every wondered who Rip Van Winkle played nine-pins with? It was Henry Hudson and his crew!

  • Invisible hands
    A couple of Comstock miners meet a couple of tommy knockers (bucca) working the late shift.

  • Joaquin Murietta, The Bandit of the Goldfields
    A young man turns outlaw after a gang of jealous gold miners kills his wife and his brother.

  • La Mala Hora
    A woman meets a horrible ghoul on her way to a friend's house.

  • The Lady in Lace
    A beautiful ghost walks the shores near Pebble Beach, California.

  • Milk bottles
    Day after day, a woman comes to the store for milk and leaves without paying.

  • Never Mind Them Watermelons
    Sam Gibb accepts a dare to stay in a haunted house, never expecting to meet a ghost.

  • The Phantom Drummer
    The sound of a phantom drummer seals the doom of a Revolutionary War soldier trying to desert the British army.

  • Piece-by-Piece
    A man decides to visit a haunted house against the advice of his friend.

  • Presumed Drowned
    The souls of five drowned men rejoin their ship from the Ice.

  • The Hook
    An insane killer, known as the Hook Man, escapes from a local prison and stalks a young couple.

  • The Shadow Train
    A ghost train stops to rescue a dying man.

  • Wait Until Emmet Comes
    Three black cats haunt a house in the South.

  • The White Lady
    A ghost rises out of Durand Lake to hunt down her daughter's killer. (New York)


Campfire Tall Tales