If you enjoyed Netflix’s Fear Street series, you might be interested in more summer camp stories. Bookings open now for next year! For every year! Forever…
1. Camp Ararat is the site of countless visions, but few deaths. The most common vision is that of a man who waits at the door of the camp’s outhouse all night. Passing through the ghost leaves a black residue on the person’s skin.
2. Camp Yeller no longer opens during leap years, after campers were found dead in their beds – drowned – on leap years.
3. Camp Bearclaw continues to open, but its visitors are now mostly ghost hunters hoping to catch a vision of the 1942 massacre when an alligator attacked, eating 28 campers and supervisors. The rumour that the giant alligator still lives and could return to Camp Bearclaw is an added attraction for thrill seekers.
4. Camp Pheasant, on the other hand, never recovered from the attack that happened there. The area continues to experience an abnormally high number of disappearances, leading to rumours that the perpetrator, the infamous Dean West, continues to return to the area for victims, despite having been shot to death while attempting to escape police. Electronic equipment does not work at Camp Pheasant.
5. Since being burned down, Camp Oldham allegedly returns for one day every year, with reports of lights, screams and the smell of smoke where the camp was located.
6. Camp Rock Edge is still open for business, run by the original religious group. It is strongly recommended that anyone intending to travel to Camp Rock Edge wait to receive confirmation that they are expected before going. Local feeling still runs high and the group will shoot first and ask questions later.
The exact details of what happened remain disputed. The group claims that the children who attended in 1984 volunteered to dedicate their lives to Jesus, renouncing the outside world and their parents. Families of the children say they picked up their children on the last day, only to have them disappear “like smoke” from their cars on the way home.
A comparison of photos shows the same cult members – barely aged – still running the camp today.
7. Camp Woodwish is the locus for numerous hauntings involving a boy calling for help, who lures hikers and dog walkers ever further into the treacherous woods. Locals presume this is Tim Eldon, who got lost in a game of Hide and Seek in 1911.
8. Camp Malcolm was Missouri’s first racially integrated summer camp. After their horrific attack on it, the membership of the regional Ku Klux Klan went into sharp decline. Sheer disgust at their actions made it difficult for them to recruit new members, while existing members mysteriously disappeared. Even today, bloody handprints appear on the houses of Ku Klux Klan family members.
9. The bus which crashed on the way to camp in Wichita returns throughout the summer months each year. Motorists report following a bus of happy children, who often make faces or otherwise tease them through the bus’s rear window, before it abruptly vanishes at the hairpin turn, which was the site of the original crash.
10. The drowned bodies of the campers from Camp Aloha rise from the lake every year during the August full moon. The figures stand in the waist high water all night, before sinking back into the mud by morning. An attempt to free them by draining the lake revealed the lake bed had been seeded with several hundred bear traps. The perpetrator is still at large.
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