How To Tell Ghost Hunting Stories
What is scarier than hearing stories of how people do not just interact with ghosts but hunt them? Hunting ghosts is like a very ironic thing because usually ghosts are the ones haunting human beings and not the other way around. Ghost stories and ghost hunting stories are the traditional way of spooking people and keeping them up all night. It can be traced down from generation to generation, some say ghost hunting stories are just made up to scare the little kids but other people say that it is true to life.
Before horror movies were even shown to people, the art of storytelling was already being practiced. This is the reason why people nowadays are still preserving the practice of this type of art. Although ancient and almost endangered, as long as there are people telling ghost hunting stories, this art is preserved. So, in order to help in preserving it here are some tips on how to properly tell ghost hunting stories.
Reality bites
To make the story scarier and much more mind boggling it is good for a story teller to make the story more realistic by incorporating local areas and known people. This is so that the listeners to the story will be able to get a sense of familiarity with the story. Make the story seem like it only happened very recently, this is a scare tactic that is used in order to make the listeners feel that it could happen to them anytime, anyplace and any day.
Practice makes perfect
In everything that a person does, it is always important to exert extra effort in practicing it repeatedly. A great tip would be to practice the telling the ghost hunting stories in front of the mirror and choose which style looks and sounds scarier and which one seems to sound more natural. It is not advisable to use words that are not that common. For storytellers it is also not good to over dramatize a story. The storytellers should make the listeners feel that the storyteller is reluctant in telling the story.
Trust needs to be earned
Before a person starts on telling ghost hunting stories it is very important for the audience to trust this person. This is called building rapport and having credibility, if a person has credibility and can easily build rapport this can indicate that this person has great people skills and that is one characteristic of a great ghost hunting storyteller.
Play the part
Telling ghost stories is an easy thing to do; making other people believe it is harder. The trick to telling the best story ever is by also playing along with the story. Acting nervous and scared while telling the story can add to the scare level of the story. Making little facial expressions and small hand gestures of being scared can definitely give the listeners a chill effect on the story.
No happy endings
It is a very well known fact that tragic endings are those of the best ghost hunting and ghost activity stories ever. This is the reason why most of the ghost stories told today do not have a closure or an ending. This is done so that the listeners will feel that it could still happen to them.
The number of story tellers compared to video makers of ghost hunting has a great difference, but people should never forget that the origin of all the movies, all the videos and all the shows shown today is in fact story telling. Continuing the practice of storytelling will keep it alive and can be used by future generations to scare the heck out of each other.
