How about a ghost story from way back in the day?
The great writer Plutarch relates a story of murder and revenge from ancient Greece. In the city of Chaeronea, there lived a young man named Damon. A Roman military commander apparently fancied him and, shall we say, made unwanted advances. With his affections spurned, the Roman commander was enraged, which Damon realized could make his own life very difficult and probably a lot shorter.
So Damon gathered some of his friends and together they ambushed the Roman, killing him and a few of the soldiers who were with him. The city council of Chaeronea met and condemned Damon and his friends. To which Damon responded by massacring the city council.
Damon and his band fled the city and raised havoc in the countryside for a time. Eventually, the townspeople agreed to allow Damon to return, which he did. Perhaps this show of forgiveness was not all it seemed, and Damon was murdered not long after his homecoming in a local bathhouse.
After Damon’s grisly end, patrons of the bathhouse were troubled by ghostly happenings. Death groans emanating from thin air and other disembodied noises echoed through the building. Some visitors even reported seeing phantoms stalk the halls, appearing and disappearing before their eyes.
The hauntings grew so intense that the decision was made to wall up the bathhouse and, hopefully, trap the spirits inside. Whether it worked or not, Plutarch doesn’t say…