Live Poll: Not Scary Ghost Stories - Which Is Your Favorite?

@dgranger 

I don't know, if the Muppets Christmas Story counts. Although Dicken's Christmas Carrol is already on the list, There is no version less scary than the Muppet's, but it's one of the greatest.

Would you count George Baily as a ghost? The angel showed him his town when if he wasn't born. Practically like a attendend ghost of himself. Or is it more like he saw the movie of his life without himself? -->  It's a Wonderful Life

@Breumaster No, George Bailey isn’t. But you might want to check the list to see why Clarence  Clarence said something that qualifies him at least as a ghost. And angels are spirits. Damn, that means I got to put on “The Bishop’s Wife” too.

@Breumaster I’m not putting in the variations of the story. There is too many. And hardly anybody has filmed the whole story as dickens wrote it. Many short scenes get left out. Like Scrooge seeing Belle years later happily married and with children, the trip around the world (the jail, the miner’s house, the moors, the lighthouse, the ship at sea)( they are all one paragraph long and could have been done as a short montage sequence) and the young couple in debt to Scrooge receiving word that he is dead, are the most commonly left out scenes.

@mariojacobs I didn’t know there was a ghost in that one.

@dgranger

the ghost of Cathy is implied in the story in my opinion.

from Wikipedia:

The ghosts of Heathcliff and Cathy are seen walking in the snow, superimposed over Penniston Crag.

@mariojacobs I read the plot synopses of the novel. Heathcliff demands that Catherine’s ghost to remain with him and later he says he is haunted by her, as in he sees her ghost in the mansion. The plot summery of the novel does say their ghosts are seen by several people after heathcliff’s death. It is in.

@Pencho15  I took two of them. As shooting as it may be, “Always” was a remake of “A Guy Named Joe”. Always was a better picture visually but the story was not as good as aGNJ was. 
I had thought about “The Corpse Bride” and rejected in favor of “Coco” because in “Coco” nobody sees the spirits except Miguel (even though, in the final scenes, the spirits are with the family). What sold it to me as a ghost story is when the policeman walked right through Miguel.

now an argument can be made between “The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “The Corpse Bride”. Other than the dog, are Jack Skeleton and crew really ghosts and spirits?

@Jessica I hopefully got them all. Thanks. I really need to proofread more.

#32: orginnal -> original

@Jessica,

Thanks. I thought I got that one. I should have realized that if the buttons didn’t appear, the correction wouldn’t take. I had used the word processor program’s replace option. I should have just typed it in the first place like I did the others. Lesson learnt — again.
it is done 

@dan_dassow thank you. The changes are done. This doesn’t get old. I the feeling I get ever time when one of my Polk suggestions goes live. 
now I got polls to vote on. Jen’s monster celebrity poll, and Breumaster’s monster clowns poll.

@Brew_Swaine that is because of what I said about Clarence in “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Clarence does say that line.  It I let that film in because angels are spirits, then Dudley in “The Bishop’s Wife” gets in too.

Your mistake is in confusing the biblical meaning of 'spirit' - the characteristics of a person that are considered as being separate from the body - with the colloquial use of it as a ghostly entity.

Clarence was obviously referring to the former as he is an Angel, the spirit of God, not a ghost.

But it's only a Poll and I'm a pedant for accuracy.  :)