The History of Telling Ghost Stories at Christmas

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  @TheJollyReiver · 3 years ago · pinned

  Hope everyone has a great Christmas! Don’t forget to tell me what Christmas traditions you and your family have! I’ll be back in January with more videos out in the field.<br>If you’d like to support my work you can do via Patreon and PayPal:<br><br><a href="https://www.patreon.com/TheJollyReiver">https://www.patreon.com/TheJollyReiver</a><br><br><a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/TheJollyReiver?country.x=GB&amp;locale.x=en_GB">https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/TheJollyReiver?country.x=GB&amp;locale.x=en_GB</a>

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  @KaerriRainshadow · 2 years ago

  &quot;Tradition is not the worship of ashes. It is the preservation of the fire.&quot; &nbsp;What a lovely turn of phrase!

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  @NorthernTigress · 1 year ago

  &quot;They&apos;ll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago! It&apos;s the most wonderful time of the year.&quot;

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  @ushabalakrishnan4974 · 1 year ago

  My grandmother was great at telling ghost stories especially those she personally experienced. Her father was a station master and railway stations were almost always haunted.

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  @michelleflynn2907 · 1 year ago

  After dinner on Christmas Eve my daughter makes us hot chocolate with marshmallows in special mugs, then we curl up together and open new books. We listen to Celtic and Medieval Christmas music, read our books, sip out hot chocolate, and snuggle up with the dog. It’s our favorite night of the year!

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  @EaldormanofLancashire927 · 3 years ago

  As a child, I was always more scared of the four Christmas Carol ghosts visiting me if I had been naughty rather than Santa leaving me coal, hence that was more of an incentive for me to be good.

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  @amberswafford9305 · 3 years ago

  We have a ridiculous tradition that began one Christmas in the 80s where my dad for whatever reason got everyone in the immediate family a last minute gift of a pair of those thick, grippy-bottomed socks &amp; then just continued doing so every year until one year about 10 or so years ago when he didn’t. Me and my siblings were all very bothered by this and made it known so he got us all some the next day (Boxing Day in the UK but just the day after Christmas here) It may seem really cheesy and insignificant &amp; maybe it is but I love my drawer full of fuzzy socks when it gets real cold outside like it is right now.

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  @06mrselfdestruct · 1 year ago

  I love Halloween and it’s cool that I can drag out the spooky until Christmas now

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  @schizoidboy · 3 years ago

  In the recent years I&apos;ve come across the writings of M.R. James, a scholar who became famous for telling his ghost stories to his students around Christmas time. It was his students who suggested he publish his stories which have become classic horror stories. Seriously there are any number of anthologies that have at least one M.R. James stories included in their collections.

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  @snowysnowyriver · 1 year ago

  I have a personal tradition of always listening to A Christmas Carol at Christmas. &nbsp;It&apos;s my quiet time to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas.

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  @nullgravity2583 · 3 years ago

  I went into the woods last night while walking my dog, thought I saw a white spirit ahead...got too scared...went home..should have gone deeper so that I may have had a spooky story to tell.

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  @wensleydale9004 · 3 years ago

  This video has such a cozy vibe, and what a lovely fireplace! We&apos;ll definitely be telling ghost stories this Christmas, and the only screen in sight will be a fake fireplace video on the TV--wish we had a real one!

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