Not my own - but:

I live in an old suburb of Albany, NY and some of the houses are very old. In elementary school a girl I knew would come in and tell strange stories of what would happen in her house. The story was that Mary Todd Lincoln came to NY after the death of her husband. She supposedly left the dress that she was wearing on the night of his assasination, still with the blood stains. She never left the house in ghostly form after her eventual death. My friend insisted that strange things would go on and while I was in the house sometimes, I never saw anything. The haunting is still listed on some internet websites as real. You never know just how true these stories are but she was convinced.