Pliny's Ghost Story.

Dedicated to twins Sam and Ellie, whose family support us on Patreon.

Hello, this is Jana.

Now I have to let you know that I love a good ghost story,

but Bertie doesn't like them because you get 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 storynuri.com.

This ghost story was written down by an ancient Roman called Pliny, who Bertie tells me, wrote letters in Latin to his friends.

In one letter, Pliny 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 approaching nearer, bit by bit.

Soon after, a spectre 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 nights 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

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