[movieman64]

Some of you may think I’m crazy, just join the crowd, but I wanted to share with you something really creepy that happened to me a few days ago while working here at the house, bear with me on my writing skills being I’m no great writer.

I live in a very rural area in West Central Indiana, it’s primarily farmland, and I think there’s only about a 35,000 person population in the whole county. I was working on some fence along a ridge overlooking a wooded area, with a cornfield on the far side. I was alone, no one was home, and I was just sitting there thinking, and pondering life. The dogs kept coming around looking at me and what I was doing, they kept barking, and I would look around to see what it was they were barking at, but I didn’t see anything. While I was working I kept getting this strange feeling like when somebody’s around and you can’t see them, or you’re being watched. I looked around several times but I didn’t see anything, no squirrels, no deer, just me and the dogs, and they were off nosing around most of the time. All of a sudden out of the corner of my right eye I caught a dark object. I started to turn to look, but I kept my head down, and turned towards my work. I kept watching out of the corner of my eye, turning my head slightly to the right. About fifty to seventy-five yards away next to a small branch or creek at the bottom of the ridge were two young children, (10-12 years old). They were just standing there, looking right at me, not moving. I couldn’t really tell what type of clothes they were wearing, but they were dark in color. I kept watching them, and they me, not moving a bit. Finally I turned my head and looked right towards them. At that exact moment I heard a noise more in front of me, like the breaking of a stick on the ground, causing me to look away from the children. Seeing nothing I turned back towards the creek, and the children were gone.

I can’t describe to you the cold chills that went up and down my spine. I don’t want to admit I was scared, but I had this awful feeling of dread come over me. I kept scanning the woods to see if I saw anything else but couldn’t see anything. The dogs soon came over, and everything kind of returned to normal. The whole experience lasted maybe five to ten seconds, but seemed a lot longer. I worked along the ridge for the rest of the day and didn’t hear or see anything else.

I told my wife about it when she came home from work that evening, and as I expected she said, “What do you expect, what with all those Horror movies you watch.” I reasoned with her, and said I’m a big guy, I’ve worked in a prison most of my adult life, and I’ve not been scared like that ever! She still laughed it off and said well at least you got a new story to tell everybody. We went to bed and I could hardly sleep thinking about what I saw and felt. I decided to drive over to the farmer’s house that I bought the land from, and asked him if he had ever heard of any one seeing small children in the area, like maybe I had, he said no, but he told me that in the field on the other side of the ridge had stood an old one room school house at one time. He said he remembered his Dad and some other farmers tearing it down when he was very young. But he never heard any stories about it. He also told me about an old farmhouse that sat on top of the ridge near where my house sits now. He said it was an old house when he was a boy, and that it burned down after a fire started in the attic, of course he didn’t know if any body died or not..!especially a couple of kids.

So it’s now two days later, and I still can’t sleep well, I keep thinking about what I saw. I feel a little better telling you guys about it, even though I’ll probably get a lot of flaming about it too. Any ideas on this stuff, man it creeped me out. I know this post is long, but I just wanted to tell you guys about it, and maybe get some opinions.