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Readers share their
tales
from the (financial) crypt
By John Latta • Bankrate.com
 Maybe
those three Halloweeny witches in the first scenes of Macbeth are
not as anonymous as we think. It's possible they represent a credit
card company, a bank and a credit reporting bureau.
At least that's what we could conclude
from Bankrate.com readers who responded to our second annual
Halloween Horrors series. We asked for your scariest financial tales,
stories to terrify even the hardest-bitten readers this Halloween.
Well, you did it. We opened our e-mail and out poured stories scarier
than dressed-up bank tellers.
According to the e-mails you sent, your financial
institution has been dressed up like a haggy old witch all year,
cruel cackling coming from your bank's vaults, bloody-mouthed bats
flying out of credit card statements and payments you thought were
long since dead rising from the grave to haunt and harry you in
the night.
And buried deep in our pile of e-mail was one
reader sentiment that pretty much summed up the attitude of nearly
all of our correspondents: "My only hope is for a special room
in hell for the banking executives."
You'll quickly see that the names of the financial
institutions have been changed for the protection of all this scary
Halloween.
Read on, if you dare, these tales guaranteed
to terrify. Be sure to leave the lights on as your blood runs cold
and you reach for your wallet to make sure those presidents are
still dead.
1. Creepy
credit card crawlies
Not even a stake through the heart or a check to the company
could lay these tortured credit souls to rest.
2. Morbid
mortgages
When the payment checks disappeared into the Twilight Zone,
it was their credit rating that came back to haunt them.
3. Driving
a deadly bargain
Our readers give us their squeals on wheels.
4. More
grave financial ghoulishness
Moans and loans, and the evil offspring that can result when
Frankenbank changes checking account policies at will.
-- Posted: Oct. 29, 1999
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