Ghost-story telling: keeping it appropriate. From: Camping Magazine | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: Weintraub, Jeff | COPYRIGHT 1996 American Camping Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ghost-story telling is popular pastime during campings but counselors should be careful not to scare campers with too frightening stories. Children between 4 and 12 yrs. old are often afraid of parent separation, animals and supernatural beings while teenagers are afraid of potentially real stories.

Ghost-story telling is an age-old pastime. There's something mystical about the unknown, something fun about imagining encounters with the supernatural.

To frightfully entertai...

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