Jonathan Stroud Quotes

The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

I am not scared of ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts or in the supernatural.

I love a good ghost story, and I love to just get in there and really just find the truth behind these stories.

I do actually like to visit haunted locations.

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.

I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.

I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

I'm the type of guy if there's a haunted hotel in town, I'm staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

Hotels are really scary. There are a lot of haunted ones in L.A. that I want to check out. So many people come in and out, and a lot of them can be dark. That dark gets locked in the hotel and stays there.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.

I'm always interested in horror and the supernatural.

I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

I like haunted things.

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there.

I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't understand just yet.