Years ago when I was younger (circa 1985), my friends and
I
used to go parking with our girlfriends down a deserted old
dirt road that was close to a river. We called it “The
Place.” It was kind of a spooky place so the girls would,
of course, be hanging all over you because they were
frightened (just what we wanted them to do).
One of my friend’s uncles told us that there once was an old house
down there that had long been abandoned even when he was a
young man and it had a reputation of being haunted. The
house had burned down by the time we started going there so
the only thing left was the foundation and some scattered
pieces of burnt wood from the old house.
One snowy night, my friend Bob and I went out with our
girlfriends. Being bored we decided to head down to the
Place and hang out. Bob was driving, with his girlfriend in
the front seat beside him. I was in the back seat behind Bob
with my girlfriend beside me. A light snow had started
falling early in the evening and it was quite cold out so
there weren’t many cars let alone people out on the roads.
We drove down the dirt road and parked near the foundation
and we talked as the radio played softly in the background.
As we conversed, Bob and I were facing our girlfriends who
were on the passengers’ side of the car.
After about 45 minutes of talking, Bob and I were startled
to see someone walk by the car, on the passenger’s side,
from the back of the car to the front. The figure appeared
to be dressed in some kind of cloak and was walking fast.
The girls must have known something was up because I
stopped talking in mid sentence, while Bob exclaimed, “Who
the Heck is that?!” They both turned around just in time to
see the figure disappear at the front of the car!
At this point pandemonium broke loose in the car, both
girls are screaming while Bob and I are trying to calm them
down. Unfortunately, we had filled their heads with all
sorts of spooky stories when we were down there on
different occasions so they just freaked out. They were
practically crying, begging us to leave. I tried to be the
voice of reason, saying it was probably someone out for a
walk (on a night like that?) And how did we not know that
maybe that person had taken a fall at the front of the car
in some unseen hole (although I has walked that ground many
times and knew it to be perfectly flat).
I convinced the girls that the best course of action would
be for me and Bob to take a look outside the car and make
sure there was no one hurt out there. Of course, that
didn’t go over very well with the girls (and Bob wasn’t too
thrilled with it either) But my curiosity got the best of
me and I had to see if anyone was out there. So gathering
up our courage, Bob and I got out of the car with his
little flashlight and proceeded around the front of the car
to the passengers’ side to see where the mysterious person
had gone.
We got to the front of the car and shone the flashlight all
around but didn’t see a soul nor hear a sound. Then Bob
shone the light on the ground, and to our horror, we
noticed that there were no footprints in the freshly fallen
snow on the passenger’s side. Just then we heard an ear
splitting scream from the girls in the car. We ran up to
the passenger’s side doors and the girls opened the doors
and breathlessly told us that someone had just walked past
the drivers side from the front of the car to the back
while Bob and I were looking for footprints in the snow on
the passengers side!
At that point we decided to get the heck out there. Bob ran
around the front of the car and I, holding the flashlight,
went around the back of the car. Just as I got in the car,
I pointed the flashlight down and discovered the only
footprints were Bobs and mine! At that instance, I could
feel all the hair on my body stand on end. We hightailed it
out of there and once we got the girls calmed down, they
told us this person had appeared out of nowhere from the
snow and swiftly walked by the car (that’s when we heard
them scream).
I was never a believer in ghosts but needless
to say that was the LAST time I ever went to the Place. And
after we told our story to our friends, none of them ever
went parking there again either.
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