Ghost stories on Christmas Eve?

[Ninco!]

Genuinely curious, does anyone follow this tradition? Would you frighten the kids before the big day!

When I was a kid, the worst thing with Christmas Eve was being sent to bed early!

Nowadays for me, the archive ghost stories are the highlight of Christmas TV! There is usually some classic spooky story (The Signalman etc).

I think the scariest (gruesome) film I was allowed to watch on Christmas Eve as a kid; was Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Have to say that watching the Women in Black or similar, before Santa would have been an experience - I would have been up all night!!

 

[Ninco!]

Charles Dickens The Signalman is one of my favourite ghostly stories.

Cheers @no_sleep_til I'm a big fan of Mark Gatiss and his documentaries about horror, they are awesome. Shame the Beeb only shows now and again! You have reminded me of the classic seventies BBC films of M.R. James!

Yet to try Gatiss' rendition of Dracula, I kind of got put off from the short snippets I have seen, a bit too different - I like the ol' Christopher Lee version!