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A mundane ghost story is a scary story involving rational worries rather than implausible phobias.
Someone tells a [[Ghost Story]] in classic fashion, probably around a campfire or with a flashlight aimed up under the face, only the ghost story is about something that is not really scary in the traditional nightmare sense, but is more like [[Adult Fear
This type of scary story usually bypasses fantastic and / or supernatural horrors found in the common ghost story, for something that tends to actually happen in real life to sane people.
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
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* Konata's scary story from ''[[Lucky Star]]''.
* In the [[Ghost Story]] episode of the ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': Calvin has hiccups and asks Hobbes to tell him a scary story to cure him.
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'''Calvin''': I meant ''surprise'' me.
'''Hobbes''': That doesn't? Boy, you're cynical. }}
* There was a particularly disturbing (by its standards) ''[[Family Circus]]'' Sunday strip with Jeffy asking his dad about monsters, the dad assuring him there were none, and the final frame showing the dad walking out of Jeffy's room with Not Me ghosts marked "taxes", "recession" and "war" floating around him.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Addams Family
* ''[[Cheaper By the Dozen]] 2'' did this. The rich kids were reading about a family that was worrying about how to pay their car payment that month, and then they all shuddered in fear and disgust at the thought of not being super-rich.
* ''[[Role Models]]'' included a scene where Paul Rudd's character told the "true scary story" about the facts of child slavery and abduction around the world.
* ''[[Friday the
* ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', with a story about a trip to the salon.
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''[hysterical screams]'' }}
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' Halloween special "Two Heads Are Better Than None," Kel mishears "ghost stories" as "toast stories." Cue his attempt at a scary campfire story:
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* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', the [[Twist Ending]] of Ron's ghost story is a mandatory government inspection of private property. As a libertarian, this is truly horrifying to him.
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' had the similar scenario of Frank Costanza's war story of the terrible losses his unit suffered due to his own bad cooking.
* Done in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', where Raj and Leonard at the ending of ''The Adhesive Duck Deficiency'' were finishing up what seems to be your standard campsite ghost story (complete with flashlights to the face), only for him to say "He slept with his cousin!" (referring to something earlier in the episode where Howard, while he and his friends were high with marijuana due to cookies they unknowingly got from [[
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
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* ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' features [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/10/31/ every gamer's worst fear].
** They also did another one where someone had been playing FFVII for 20+ hours nonstop before suddenly realizing {{spoiler|he had no room left on his memory card.}}
* [http://xkcd.com/647/ This] ''[[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': The scariest thing in the world would be if Sinbad got another TV show! (the comedian, not the adventurer).
** Or is you went to touch something, and it wasn't there...because ''it turned to WOOD''!
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': The season eight episode "The Springfield Files" (the [[
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'''Homer''': [[Big No|No! NO! NOOOOOO!!!!!]] }}
*** There is an alternate scene on the season eight DVD set in which the original mundane horror story was about the contents of an Oscar Meyer weiner, with Homer reacting the same way.
** ''[[The Simpsons]]'', again, featured a carnival "house of horrors" ride that presents an old woman in a rocking chair who says, "Behold! The ravages of age!"
* ''[[Arthur (
* ''[[Futurama]]'', "Where the Buggalo Roam":
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'''Leela:''' Pfft! That's not scary.
'''Bender:''' It is if you're a laser printer. }}
* The ''[[Daria]]'' episode "The Teachings of Don Jake" had Jake tell a story about a boy who hears weird splashing noises in his sleep and wakes to find his father gone. {{spoiler|Turns out it's yet another [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] story about Jake's father getting drunk during a father-son camping trip}}:
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** And then there's Quinn's ghost story:
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'''Helen:''' Quinn, honey, is this really a scary story?
'''Quinn:''' Wait! I haven't gotten to the ''shoes'' yet! }}
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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'''Rarity''': Never heard of it. But I have a much better one. It's the horrifying story of the messy, inconsiderate ghost, who irritated everypony within a hundred miles! OooOOOooo!
'''Applejack''': That's not a real story! You made it up.
'''Rarity''': It is a ''ghost'' story. They're all made up. }}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNaHQZrZ90 Quagmire would find this story scary].
* In ''[[The Fairly
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'''Dad''': Cool!
'''Timmy''': ...but nothing to watch!
'''Dad''': [[Big No|Noooooooooo!!!!]] }}
* An episode of [[Johnny Bravo]] had Johnny try to tell a traditional campfire tale...to a bunch of computer-geeks, who of course aren't scared because the monster is "impossible." Then Carl tells a story about a kid who discovers his hard-drive has crashed and all content on his computer is deleted, which gets a much better reaction.
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*cut to Johnny hiding in a tree, trembling*
'''Johnny:''' *addressing the audience* I don't know ''what'' he said....but it was the way he told it. }}
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