Ghost Stories

Abandoned Church

This happenedaround the Summer of 87 and is completely weird.

My best friendRanay and I had borrowed my Mom's car to cruise for the day.Living in a small town there's really nothing else to do. Whilecruising some back streets of town we sort of just followed theroad. It's not a road that I was very familiar with as it turnedfrom asfalt to dirt a few miles out. We just kept driving,singing along with the radio, we had the windows down letting thewind make a mess of our hair. Before we knew it we had passed anold abandoned church, curious, we turned around and went back,parked the car, and began the task of checking things out.

Upon closerinspection, the church didn't "look" abandoned, noweeds, no broken windows, the inside was spotless. Now this maynot seem odd but being where we were and given the fact that thechurch was completely (almost) empty...we got spooked. You seeall we found in this church was the Covenant (sp?). It was sortof laying on the floor like it had fallen from the wall. Ranaywas into reading tarot cards and such and decided it would be acool thing to hang in her bedroom so we held onto it while weexplored the rest of the church. There were a couple of Sundayschool rooms, perfectly kept and a tiny bathroom, also neat as apin. At this point we began to feel as if someone was watching usso decided to make a quick exit. Ranay and I drove around foranother hour or so and headed back to my house. She spent thenight and went home the next day taking our "find" withher", thank God! That Covenant gave me the willies!

Two days later Irelated our discovery to my friend Hugh who was enthralled by ourouting and wanted to go check out this church for himself. Iagreed to go along for the ride because he didn't know where itwas. We arrived at the church, parked and got out of the car.Immediately I felt a presense, like someone was watching us. Iwas ready to get the hell out of there! Hugh however had otherplans. He had reached the steps before I did and made his wayinto the church. When I reached the fronts steps leading into thechurch I freaked! They were rotten and most of them broken, therewere weeds growing up through them, etc...I made my way insidewithout breaking my neck only to discover that most of thewindows were now broken, there were a few trees growing inthrough the broken ones. The entire inside of the church lookedas if it had been abandoned for years. Ceiling tiles on thefloor, in some places holes in the walls. Now this may seemperfectly normal to you...to see an abandoned church, and to seethat it's been neglected for some years. The weird thing is thatonly 2 days before, it was in perfect shape... now I'm not arocket scientist but I know that it takes longer than 2 days fora building to get in such a state of disrepair. All this combinedwith the feeling that something or someone was watching us scaredme silly! Needless to say, Hugh and I beat a hasty retreat...butsomething followed us...but that's another story.

I hope this wasn'tto long and that you all enjoyed it.