Ghost stories from the beach - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

piemma · 08-23-2006, 09:50 AM

I thought this might be a fun topic. I am sure there are tons of ghost stories from the surf guys at night.
I have a few but my best and most recent was last year at Narrow River (No this does not constitute a "spot burn" for Ghosts)

Big surf, SW 25-30, raining like buckets. I see this guy in a big floopy hat up in the dunes. I look again he's gone. I kept walking down the beach and I feel ike someone is following me. I turn around real quick and his about 20 yards in back of me....just a shadow. Snap on my light.....nothing. Now I'm getting freaked out and I don't scare easy.
I get to the River and start heading out on the bar and the guy with the floppy hat is standing on River Rock....other side of the River. I jump a big wave and look again and, you guessed it... he's gone.
I went home.

Adamfishes · 08-23-2006, 10:03 AM

^^I'll have what your having

JFigliuolo · 08-23-2006, 10:15 AM

But a kid I took out one night was perched on a rock. I go around the point. He swears to this day, he looked behind him and there was a guy pointing over to me. He looks again, the guy was gone. He also swears he saw a girl, in a white dress, floating in the surf the same night.

Karl F · 08-23-2006, 10:54 AM

I can't wait for the canal guys to chime in.. the canal has lots of ghosts and ghost stories..

For me.. there is a beach in Wellfleet...There is an area there, on a New Moon, I can't be in, all the hair on the back of my neck goes up, and I get chicken skin, start to shivver, heart rate goes mental...swear the air temp drops below zero, I move 100 yards away, all good again... I thought it was me.... there is somebody else on this board, who years later, tells me he gets the same heebie jeebies there.. he then tells me this tid-bit about the location: There was a shipwreck in that area in the 1800's with a lot of sailors killed. Frozen to death in the rigging and had to be cut out. Oh, this happened on the New Moon.. Pochet, has a similar effect on me, again, on the new moon.. I read Bill Quinns book "Shipwrecks of Cape Cod".. to lear more of that Wellfleet wreck, and low and behold, there is also a story of a nasty wreck, with many killed there.. on a new moon...
Of course, you stand on a dark beach all night, depriving yourself of sleep, a lull in the action.. and the mind gets active

Flaptail · 08-23-2006, 12:41 PM

Not for a 60 pounder would I ever fish that beach alone again, ever.

Finaddict · 08-23-2006, 12:55 PM

Occassionally walking Plum Island alone at night I get the sense that someone is behind me, hear a few voices and turn around and it is clear, nobody or anything there, continue walking, feeling gets stronger, no one there ... WTF, it was creepy ...

On another early, early morning, on the other end of the island down at Sandy Point, walking in the dark, foggy, tide is dropping, I see footprints in the sand, made just after the water left as there are small puddles in the footprints ... and I can see a shape ahead almost at a bar I was going to fish ... then the footprints disappear (remember tide is dropping and small surf almost none) the object is still there and when I reach the spot, there is no one there, shape is gone ... still dark and I get that same creepy feeling of someone in my presence but not there ...

Mike P · 08-23-2006, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl F

I can't wait for the canal guys to chime in.. the canal has lots of ghosts and ghost stories..

Sorry, can't help ya there, Karl. I never had one of those experiences--not even walking thru the woods and over the tracks on the Cape side by the light of a flashlight with dying batteries.

Close encounters with critters qualify?

Joe · 08-24-2006, 07:40 AM

When I first started digging graves - it was a little spooky.
The old alky head caretaker told me, "Don't worry, they're dead."
I dug up half a person from the pelvis down one time - I guess it was either and indian or an unmarked grave - that was weird, but no complaints.
I used to have an open mind to the stuff...

Back Beach · 08-23-2006, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by piemma

I thought this might be a fun topic. I am sure there are tons of ghost stories from the surf guys at night.
I have a few but my best and most recent was last year at Narrow River (No this does not constitute a "spot burn" for Ghosts)

Big surf, SW 25-30, raining like buckets. I see this guy in a big floopy hat up in the dunes. I look again he's gone. I kept walking down the beach and I feel ike someone is following me. I turn around real quick and his about 20 yards in back of me....just a shadow. Snap on my light.....nothing. Now I'm getting freaked out and I don't scare easy.
I get to the River and start heading out on the bar and the guy with the floppy hat is standing on River Rock....other side of the River. I jump a big wave and look again and, you guessed it... he's gone.
I went home.

Paul,

Now we all know why you bought the boat! Beware though, that guy can walk on water too. No escape.

The floopy hat is really his ears. I think it may be the elephant man

Keep some peanuts next to the console.

On another note, if you ever see Lanny, ask him about the night I was hurriedly walking off head of the meadow and he was walking on.He'll tell you how chickensh$#$% I am. My excuse was that I forgot the eels.

Jenn · 08-23-2006, 05:04 PM

I wont name the beach but it is known to be a little mysterious lets say....

Me and hubby were fishing one night when he had enough and went for a snooze in the sand sled. So I am plugging away beach to myself and after a while I feel my hubby walk up behind me and put his hand of the small of my back like he often does....no big deal.....uh....the problem was........

HE WAS STILL IN THE TRUCK FAST ASLEEP................

Needles to say I packed in up for the night....REAL quick like....

hummy22 · 08-24-2006, 01:10 PM

actually mine has nothing to do with the beach. but a girl that works in my company (a real head turner) asked me if i have ever experienced any abnormalties of any sort. It seems that 3 days ago as she was sleeping, she awoke to not being able to move and breathe for about 10 second. she was totally aware of what was going on but could not gain control of her body as if she was paralyzed from the neck down. In chinese customs, that is meaning a ghost is sitting on top of you. but the funny thing was, i told her certain things to do like to position her slippers in another way and to put her hair up while sleeping to balance out the yin/yang of her complexion...as i was telling her this, she showed me a bruise on her wrist and back of her shoulder. i was like WOW asking her if she could have hit her hand on a night table, but then she lifted her pant leg to show me 3 deep gashes on her leg surrounded by what looked like small scars which looked like a deep rash because of the redness. she said when she regained control of her body and got up...she discovered her leg bleeding and saw the bruises while showering. i told her not only is she being followed by a ghost but it was inflicting harm upon her. then i asked her how this came to be and she told me about a month ago, she went with 2 friends ghost hunting which they did see something strange and her 2 friends have experienced abnormalties after the visit. my advise to her was to go to a temple and pray and if she had the courage to go back to the area and make amends with whatever they encountered and offended. i wish her the best of luck as she was trembling while telling me this.