Mystery guest

At a party in Helsinki, Finland, in 1977, Pia Virtakallio saw a woman in outdated clothes come in from the freezing cold without a coat. Nobody else seemed to see her. Pia checked the guest list but there was nobody on it that she didn't know well. Years later, Pia read a book about an artist who had lived in that house. She was killed in an air raid in World War Two. Pia recognized the mystery guest from her picture.

Ghost to the rescue

In 1940, Patrick Thompson was working near Niagara Falls on the border between Canada and the United States. One night, he fell into the swirling waters by the falls and was drowned. Two years later, his son, Kenneth also slipped into the water. Unable to swim, he faced certain death. Then, he felt an invisible force and heard a voice guiding him to safety. The voice was his father'sÉ

The lady in black

A mournful widow in black is said to wander beside rivers in Mexico, weeping for her children. Once, she was infatuated by a young man and believed he would love her better without her children so she drowned them. Her blackclad spirit grieves on for her terrible deed.

Ancient ghost story

This ghost story is 2,000 years old. There was a house in Athens that nobody could stay in because they were plagued by the ghost of an old man in chains. One day, a philosopher called Athenodorus moved in and, sure enough, began to hear ghostly moans and the phantom appeared. It led Athenodorus to a spot in the garden, to which it pointed pitifully. Next day, the authorities dug up the bones of an old man, chains still around his arms and legs. Once the body was properly buried, the ghost disturbed the house no longer.