Category: Ghost Poems

In a town called
Wotton-Under-Edge
in merry old England
sits the ghost infested
spirit filled Ram Inn
child skeletons
found under it
broken blades
in their bodies
possibly pagan
sacrifices
people have been
attacked by
spirits there
an incubus feeds
on male hormones
a succubus feeds
on female’s
holy moly
saints preserve us!
sounds like hell
entities reside
in the Bishop room
a screaming man
a dark monk
a woman
hanging from
the ceiling
upside down
and six others
beds that levitate
a hair raising scare
it’s believed
devil worship
took place there
the kitchen
haunted too
a young man
thrown against a wall
by a malevolent ghost
of spooky things
there’s much more
go there if you dare
stay there for a night
pray you don’t
die of fright.

Bob Boyd

Potpourri of the paranormal
high strangeness happenings
no telling what you will feel or see
unexplained phenomena
shadow people
black eyed children
dogmen, wendigo
maybe a ghost or a few
some UFO sightings too
cryptids also there
maybe their lair
poltergeist activity as well
when it gets real scary there
almost like being in hell.

Bob Boyd

Been listening to Art Bell’s Ghost to Ghost
many people tell their ghost experiences there
sure, some are probably make believe
but I believe most of them are genuine
some said the ghosts were benevolent
harmless, friendly ghosts, like polite guests
some people found them entertaining
amusing antics and funny manifestations
a woman claimed a female ghost in her home
protected her when she warned her
not to open her front door one night
to ignore the incessant knocking
someone with bad designs, the knocker.

It puzzles me why these friendly ghosts
would remain earthbound in homes
instead of ascending to the heavens.

Bob Boyd

In the town of Nethertown
the ghouls hold sway

highest crime rate
for a small town

in all of the USA

sightings of cryptids
many

ghosts aplenty

horrors, incomprehensible
abound

heads of humans and
animals often found

the town once a haven
for the dark arts

witches and warlocks
hung to death

now the town suffers
the aftereffects

of the smoldering dark magic

emanating from the
bodies and bones

of the dead witches and warlocks
buried under Nethertown.

Bob Boyd

The Demon Cat of Washington D.C.
big and menacing haunts the halls
of prominent federal buildings
from the Capital Building
to the White House
occasionally frightening people
according to the Demon Cat lore

it’s also claimed to sometimes
be a sign of forthcoming disasters
or impending tragedies
supposedly in 1963 a nightwatchman
saw the Demon Cat right before
president Kennedy was assassinated

whether the Demon Cat is real
of just another urban legend
I am unsure, but it’s listed as
one of the most famous ghosts
“in the White House Closets,”
so perhaps some of the tales
of the Demon Cat ring true.

Bob Boyd

Think twice, lone traveler, before staying
at the ghost invested Clown Motel
in Tonopah, Nevada
situated next to a haunted cemetery
walls adorned with pictures of clowns
assortments of clown dolls on shelves
clown paraphernalia everywhere
in the rooms, clown wallpaper, clown sheets
and blankets, clown figurines
picture of dolls on the walls
the eyes of the clown dolls
seem to follow you
clown ghosts appearing
and disappearing
some guests claim to have seen
a seven-foot-tall clown poltergeist
disembodied laughter
the sounds of footsteps
with nobody there
a host of terrors
some guests have seen
maybe you’ll go there and
see nothing, lone traveler
but BEWARE.

Bob Boyd

Wearing a red dress, she wandered through
a room, headless and holding her head in her hands
then she walked through a wall
what in God’s creation made a ghost be like that?
was she beheaded in life by a crazy person
or by an insane, jealous or ex lover?

the headless woman ghost in red was described
to a waitress by her son and grandson when
they visited her in the employee section
of the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada
and saw that headless ghost there firsthand

Bob Boyd

Saw a gent on YouTube
exploring a little, old church
in Wales
said to be haunted

he walked passed a wooden pew
heard a creaking sound
no big deal
seemed like nothing to see

but it kept creaking
each time he walked by it

becoming a bigger deal

then he felt something
unseen touch his hair

gave him quite a scare

then the deal got bigger
the stale air inside the church
became freezing cold

and the gent felt fear
got the hell out of the church

and the door shook after
he closed it

the gent believes someone
was buried under the church
and is trapped there

but for unexplained reasons
can make things get
spooky inside the church

more unexplainable to me
is why a spirit would
linger in an old church

I don’t believe it’s
trapped there but
that’s an intriguing theory

I can’t come up with
a better one

Lord knows
I wish I could

Lord knows if
a spirit is trapped there
I wish someone
would send it to the Light.

Bob Boyd

After listening and reading so many ghost stories
of late

I’ve become 100% convinced ghosts are real
all these people alleging they’ve seen ghosts

can’t all be

liars
deluded
mentally ill
mistaken
pranksters

the numbers are too great
many of the reports seem entirely creditable
for me to believe none of them are bona fide

but what I’m grateful for
is I’ve never seen a ghost

except
maybe

in a dream.

Bob Boyd

She walks the hotel halls from room 17 to room 21
she unpacks and packs guest’s suitcases
she doesn’t like guests being in those rooms
the reason she messes with their suitcases
she can walk through doors, no problem
she’s the Grey Lady ghost of the Crown Inn
in Amersham, England, a town densely
populated with varieties of ghosts
at least seven haunt the Crown Inn
there’s a green lady ghost in Amersham too
if you ever want to get scared many times over
take a trip to Amersham and book a hotel room
the ghosts there will gladly accommodate you.

Bob Boyd

In Springfield Vermont, stands the Hartness House Inn
an elegant, looming gables mansion built in 1904
once the home of James Hartness, an inventor extraordinaire
a governor of Vermont, an aviator, an industrialist and more
in want of a quieter environment, he a built a network of tunnels
under his mansion, a subterranean sanctuary with
a library, a workshop, a study and an apartment

twenty years after Hartness died in 1934, the mansion was
converted into an inn, and the ghost of Hartness is believed
to be haunting it: strange sensations, lights flickering, rocking chairs rocking by themselves, objects fly off shelves, sounds of someone murmuring

but smart as Hartness was, if he is haunting the mansion,
why couldn’t he find his way to the Light?
or is he locked into doing what he still thinks is material world work in his subterranean, tunneled haunts?

Bob Boyd

When I lived in the Philippines, I heard of
headless priest ghosts

a frightening thought

I read during world war II the Japanese
cut off the heads of priests that became ghosts

if true, such an unconscionable thing to do

some people say it’s just an urban legend
others believe the headless priest ghosts are real

after watching many believable videos about ghosts
on Art Bell’s Ghost to Ghost series

I cannot not help but wonder if those stories
about headless priest ghosts in the Philippines are true.

Bob Boyd

Art Bell believed there were
ghosts of the living

an appearance in spirit form
of somebody you know is alive

a number of people reported
such sightings on Art Bell’s
Ghost to Ghost shows

perhaps our spirits are
embodied and sometimes
slip out while we’ve alive

instead of the intended
bodily separation when
we are dead.

Bob Boyd

Some people claim they’ve seen headless ghosts
why would a ghost appear like that?

unless a dead person lived in the vicinity where
once people lost their heads under the guillotine

or maybe it’s a metaphoric thing, like a person
who often lost his head, as in got angry, when living
losing it literally when angry in the afterlife

but I’m just kidding around here, giving you these
made up theories and hoping you never see
a spectral noggin heading toward you.

Bob Boyd

I’ve become a bit addicted to listening to Art Bell’s
Ghost to Ghost part of his Coast to Coast programs
available on YouTube

I like the scares, the uniqueness, of the spectral tales
glimpses into another dimension, thrills galore,
loads of ghosts

maybe I’m hooked on these ghost stories because
at my age I could be close to becoming one

if so, my intent is not to hang around and haunt a musty, old house
or scare living people; I’ll have better things to do

perhaps I’ll merge with the cosmos and live forever
in the eternal peace and bliss of cosmic consciousness

but if I had a choice, I’d rather be in an idyllic paradise beyond
the tragedies and tears of this impermanent world – young again
in love forever with a divinely beautiful soulmate.

Bob Boyd