Plinnies Ghost Story dedicated to twins Sam and Ellie whose family support us on

Patreon. Hello this is John. Now I have to let you know that I love a good

ghost story but Bertie doesn't like them because he gets spooked easily but I'm

really pleased because Halloween is coming up and I've got the perfect

excuse for us to put out some scary stories but of course this story comes

with a wee warning if you don't like being scared please don't listen we've

got loads more non-scary stories that you can listen to any time you like on

storynory.com this ghost story was written down by an ancient Roman called

Plinnie who Bertie tells me wrote letters in Latin to his friends in one letter

Plinnie asked a Roman senator if he believed in ghosts and then went on to tell

him this story. There was in Athens a large and

roomy house which had a bad reputation. In the dead of night a noise like the

clanking of iron was often heard and if you listened carefully it sounded like

the rattling of chains distant at first but a poaching nearer bit by bit.

Soon after a specter appeared in the form of an old man of extremely thin and dirty

appearance with a long beard and messy hair rattling the chains on his feet and

hands. The people who then lived in the house passed their night wide awake.

The lack of sleep ruined their health and made them ill to the point of

scaring the life out of them. During the daytime even when the spirit did not appear

they imagined seeing it before their eyes and the ghost kept them in perpetual fear.

Eventually they left the house entirely to the ghost as they said no person in their right mind

could live under that roof. However a wily real estate agent of Athens put out an

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