Just wondering if anyone might be able to help with this story for girls?

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I think this may have appeared in the Bunty annual, maybe around early 90s. Short story where a girl is cycling home in the dark and is run over and killed but she doesn’t realise and thinks she just had a near miss - I think it might have been a lorry but could be wrong.

I remember that she goes past a new supermarket and is surprised because she thinks that just the other day it was still a building site. Then she goes home but a new family live there.

At the end she realises she was killed but I can’t remember how.

I seem to remember at the start she’d won an award. I’m sure I ‘adapted’ the idea of the story for an English lesson at school!

I remember one of a lass taking a solitary walk over the Moor. She stops and talks to a group of teens, who warn her to be careful as the Moor is supposed to be haunted. They go away and she tells the reader she's not worried as she is the ghost.

It’s very similar to that Catherine Storr story but that’s not it. It’s driving me crazy because I remember it very clearly! I’ve read it in the last few years because it was in one of the books on the shelf in my old classroom and I used to read while the class were doing silent reading. The cover of the book has something like broken glass or a knife - it’s a 1990s paperback anthology of spooky/twisty stories for kids and it’s called something along the lines of “A Twist in the Tale” (but that’s NOT the title!)

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I remember a similar Bunty story where a family move into a new home haunted by the ghost of the girl who had lived there before them who had died tragically. The daughter of the new family likes reading about keep fit and other such modern things but the ghost girl liked Black Beauty (I think) and didn't approve of the new inhabitants. So spookiness occurred.

Can't remember how it was resolved.

Maybe there was a goth working at Bunty at the time of these 'ghost of girl who died in tragic circs' stories

That was the story! But she didn't die she was in a coma. That's what made you think she was a ghost she liked more old fashioned stuff and the girl who moved in was into keep fit etc I can't remember the middle bit but I know they met her at the end and gave her back the hair slide.

It stuck with me because I was really into ghost stories then and thought she was a ghost but the twist was like she was really alive and longing to be home or something and her out of body experience took her there.

I never read Misty either I had a clue of Buntys of my own and some from cousin born in the Late 60s. I had a few copies of Girl magazine too it might have been in that... Can't remember but I really wish I'd kept them!

Loved a ghost story in my childhood. Read a few. I have snippets of memories of them but don't remember actual titles.

One comes to mind of a big house that some children realised there was a secret, shut up room by counting windows outside and rooms inside and it didn't match up. And one with a girl drowning in a mill pond. I think a lot of kids books written in 60s, 70s and early 80s were quite dark and dealt with mystical, spiritual and ghostly stuff - well the o es I read did