I love the affectionate practical joker ghosts! Growing up, my friend Mindy's house was haunted as fuck. The usual stomping upstairs when the whole family is in the basement, turning lights on and off, and slamming doors. But with kids, he was kind of goofy. Whenever we'd go to the basement for our epic Michael…

EllyMae, I used to be a very plugged-in and empathic child. I "just knew" things. Not really sure how to explain it. By the time I was in middle school, many of my friends' parents talked to me when they were having a hard time. I was a very sober kid who had an unending sense of caring and empathy. I was also in a…

I am not a great fan of the bow hunting (not that it matters), but I totally appreciate that you didn't shoot wildly and considered the fact that it could be endangered. I come from a family of hunters and, though I couldn't do it, I get that it means a lot to a lot of people and it serves a purpose to take the…

Thanks for the heads-up. I'm sitting on the sofa with my toddler, who is using my leg as a super-highway. If an image as scary as this popped up, I'd be sleeping in his bed till he's 12 or so.

Aaargh. I love ghost stories, but am never scared by them. This story and the story about the solo camper who found pictures on her camera of her sleeping self have just UNGLUED me! I WATCHED YOU. I would hyperventilate and then die. You don't happen to have a friend with that kind of sense of humor? When I moved out…

Nope. This wins for me. Ghost truck is scary and well written and interesting, but this is fucking terrifying. Gah. I have read every story on this years' thread, and read 2011 again for fun, and I got nary a chill. This story just scared the pants off me.

I read this sort of quickly and was nodding to myself and thinking "yup, feral pig or boar" and had moved on, but then I read the other comments and came back to read more carefully. Giant Human Footprints! I love Sasquatch stories. Spooky, but exciting!

Okay, that is very creepy.

I desperately want to go to a meeting with someone sitting in one of those. Can you imagine going to ask for an extension on your exclusion from jury duty and having the court officer hula away as he stamped your document? Priceless.

I've been saying that for a while, but I have never seen the documentary evidence. Thanks for posting. I don't dig the ZZ Top thing they're rocking, but under those beards, they are handsome men.

That is awesome, in an awful way. My brother tied me up in his room once and told me we were playing "cops and robbers." He was the cop and I was the robber. In jail. Then he locked his bedroom door and told my mom he wouldn't give me back unless she gave him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The kid had issues.

Is her skin as insane as it looks in pictures? She looks like porcelain.

And also, you have the best screen name ever, except for maybe BurtReynoldsisMySpiritGuide. And you saw Peter Dinklage. I have tickets to see him and George RR do an event in November. I cannot wait.

I would be super excited to see Reba. Only a little less excited than I would be to see DOLLY. What can't I see Dolly? Sadly, that hasn't happened. I am a singer and my partner works in the music business as well, so I have a lot of music related ones: I have hung out backstage with Charlie Sexton (and Bob Dylan came…

I love you so much. It's ridiculous. I just hang out in the grey, eating Fiddle Faddle and waiting for your next post.

Did you seriously write that you "didn't want to list" the brands? Seriously? Because some lesser Jezebel might get in on the big secret and break into the club? Gah. As someone who has a major aversion to the duck, the whale, the palm tree and the order of the golden fleece sheep, just yuck. And yawn. So, let me just…

Why Does She Need a League of Her Own?

Just wanted to commiserate. That's a dreadful story. I have had bad bosses, but never this kind of bad.

I thought that's what you meant. I was just saying that I feel for guys because if they aren't aware of our safety we think they are oblivious and if they are overaware (as in my case) it can come off as paternalistic. And the trick in my story is that the neighborhoods weren't really very crappy. He was just raised…

I absolutely get your point. But I have a little bit of sympathy with guys on this one, because here's the flip. My partnerbytherecordmachine (wow, that's unwieldy) used to foam at the mouth at the idea of my taking the easiest and most direct route from my then-apartment to his. Bad neighborhood, dangerous, etc. But…