Ghosts..?

[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.

[kpropain]

Damn man, that is pretty creepy, only thing I can think of is probably when the old house burnt down there were kids in it...I know it's probably hard, but I wouldn't let it get to ya.

[Stingy Jack]

Thanks for the story MovieMan ... but, I guess you know I don't believe in ghosts and have a tendency to agree with your wife on this one ( :) ).

But, if you seriously think you saw something out of the ordinary, and feel the need to investigate further just to put your mind at rest, you can always go to the chamber of commerce and check out the files on the property. Go through the files, looking for any information about the school house or the farm house. They should have information on any structures built on that property. Get yourself some dates. When was the school house destroyed, when did the farm house burn?

Once you have the dates, go to your local library and hope they have a pretty good collection of periodicals for your area. Look up newspaper articles for the dates you acquired, and see if they have any more information you can go off of. You may have to use a microfiche for this one.

Of course, there might be an easier way to begin research on this ... although, I have never done research on property before, so I'm just stating what I would do with my lack of experience. You could always just go to the chamber of commerce and ask someone how you would go about starting your research, and hope they are able to tell you more than I can. :)

[wufong]

When i first moved into the house i'm in now. i could and still do hear footsteps coming up my hallway. when i was laying in bed, i use to get up and check it out cause i thought someone had broken in. but now i just ignore it. i figured that if its something bad it would have got me by now. I know it isn't creepy but man. it was at first when i was laying in bed late at night shivering with fright under the covers.....crying.........screaming........pooping my pants.....etc

[newb]

That is a creepy story movieman, but I'm sure it was just a couple of neighborhood kids. You said it was a wooded area so I'm betting the kids just scampered off into the woods when you looked away. But as Stingy said, I would look into it just to ease your mind.

[movieman64]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
Thanks for the story MovieMan ... but, I guess you know I don't believe in ghosts and have a tendency to agree with your wife on this one ( :) ).

But, if you seriously think you saw something out of the ordinary, and feel the need to investigate further just to put your mind at rest, you can always go to the chamber of commerce and check out the files on the property. Go through the files, looking for any information about the school house or the farm house. They should have information on any structures built on that property. Get yourself some dates. When was the school house destroyed, when did the farm house burn?

Once you have the dates, go to your local library and hope they have a pretty good collection of periodicals for your area. Look up newspaper articles for the dates you acquired, and see if they have any more information you can go off of. You may have to use a microfiche for this one.

Of course, there might be an easier way to begin research on this ... although, I have never done research on property before, so I'm just stating what I would do with my lack of experience. You could always just go to the chamber of commerce and ask someone how you would go about starting your research, and hope they are able to tell you more than I can. :)

I agree with you on the ghost thing, I never really believed they existed. I called my Dad this morning and he said to go to the Courthouse and do a Title search, he said that would show any previous owners of the property, he said they go back a long way, since it deals with land issues.

The farmer who I bought the property from is 76, and he said they tore the school down when he was a kid, and it was old and falling down then. He said he remembers his parents talking about the house burning down but he was also very young. I'm going to be working out there over the weekend, so you know I'm going to keep an eye out for anything..! I am also going to take a walk over to where the old house stood and do some poking around. There is an old cistern, and part of a basement/root cellar. It's open to the elements and one side has caved in, but there might be some artifacts in there.

I'm wondering if I really want to know if anything happened around here, I enjoy sleeping, and the last few nights haven't been the best. My wife the darling she is was also going around last night saying how, my going to see the new Exorcist movie has caused this, being it's so close to Halloween.

[nine9]

That is a really cool story. Why don't you check the archives for any newspaper articles on it? If it was not too, too, long ago , you might find something in an old newspaper about it. Ours here goes back to the 1800s even. I've looked up things before.

[george]

i dont know what to say! being that im a very superstitious parson and all. i believe everything happens for a reason, you saw them when no one else had, meaning you have something very special to do in the future now. you either might be expecting a child soon, not just from birth. or they want you to venture out into the wood to discover something, like their remains so they can finally be at rest! other than that i dont know that to say except look up on the net on past places that have been where your home is now. thats my only advise.

yeah i know it sound like something out of a movie but its do true!

[MichaelMyers]

No flames here. I've seen things I can't write.

[Vampenguin]

Holy fuck....


That is amazing.


You should research more than just the propety, find out about the woods too...