Scouting
Below is a list of spooky campfire stories that will keep scouts entertained long after they climb into their sleeping bags. Or Cub Scouts can use the Tall Tales section to complete the Tall Tales portion of the Bear badge. Requirements are found here.

Contents Ghosts and Spooks Tall Tales (Use as part of the Bear Badge)

The Spooky Series

Ghosts and Spooks

• 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 Birth of the Jersey Devil
  The origins of the Jersey Devil.

• The Christmas Gift
  Why Florida's coast is plagued by hurricanes.

• Colonel Buck's Monument
  The image of a woman's leg keeps appearing on the monument.

• Coyote and the Colombia
  The origins of the Colombia River. (Washington)

• The Cut-Off
  Louisiana ghost story.

• The Dance
  Don't ever dance with the devil. (Texas)

• The Death Coach

The Death Coach comes for a dying man.
• The Devil and the Loup Garou

A lazy man sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for help around his farm. (Quebec)
• The Devil On Washington Rock
  The Devil appears in a dream...and other places.

• 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
  Engineers, beware! There is a ghost aboard the the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.

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

• The Ghosts of Ringwood Manor
  Do not visit Ringwood Manor after dark!

• The Grave
  A woman haunts her burial ground.

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

• La Llorona
  The ghost of a woman searches the river banks for her sons.

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

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

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

• Palatine
  A Dutch ship wrecks off Block Island. (Rhode Island.) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

• The Phantom Drummer
  The sound of a phantom drummer is heard just before tragedy strikes.

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

• Spuyten Duyvil
  New Amsterdam is under attack. Can a brave trumpeter warn the people in time? (New York)

• The Telltale Seaweed
  An overnight stay in an abandoned Cape Cod house reveals a ghost. (Massachusetts) A new version of this story is retold by S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England.

• Wait Until Emmet Comes
  Do you really want to wait for Emmet? (West Virginia)

• The White House Ghosts
  Who's haunting the White House?

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

• You can't get out
  The town drunk falls into a grave on his way home

Tall Tales

• Arkansas Traveler
  A lost traveler tries to find a place to spend the night.

  Connecticut Yankee
  A Connecticut Yankee outwits an innkeeper.

• Cowboys in Heaven
  Where would a cowboy rather be than heaven? Texas!

• The Crystal Mountain
  There is an invisible mountain in Wyoming made of crystal.

• Death of Pecos Bill
  Not even Pecos Bill could figure out how to live forever.

• Drought Buster
  Febold Feboldson busts a drought in Nebraska.

• Echoes
  A Minnesota settler longs for the echoing mountains of home.

• Frozen Dawn
  Davy Crockett must unfreeze the dawn. (Tennessee)

• Frozen Flames
  What do you do when the lanterns freeze? Call Paul Bunyan. (Michigan)

• Fur-Bearing Trout
  Colorado Fisherman developed a new trout catching technique following the visit of a hair tonic salesman.

• Hoop Snakes
  Pennsylvania has a particularly mean variety of hoop snakes rolling about.

• Jack and the Corn Stalk
  Kansas corn grows mighty fast.

• The Log Jam
  Paul Bunyan and Babe clear a log jam in Wisconsin.

• Mississippi Mosquitoes
  And you thought your mosquitoes were bad!

• Old Man Moses
  New Hampshire men can always catch a meal.

• Paul Bunyan's Kitchen
  It takes a lot of work to feed Paul Bunyan. (Oregon)

• Pecos Bill and Slue-foot Sue
  Pecos Bill gets married.

• Pecos Bill finds a Hard Outfit
  Pecos Bill seeks a hard outfit in New Mexico.

• Pecos Bill Rides a Tornado
  Pecos Bill tries to tame a tornado.

• Potatoes
  No one does potatoes like Idaho.

• The Sheep Herder's Lawsuit
  A Sheep herder outwits a lawyer.

• Slide-Rock Bolters
  Tourists, beware! Deep in the mountains of Colorado lurk the slide-rock bolters.

• The Talking Mule
  Even mules deserve a day off now and then. (South Carolina)

• Teething Toy
  What would you give your baby to teeth on if you lived in Deadwood, South Dakota?

• The Twist-Mouth Family
  Find out what a college education is good for.

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