Ghost Stories
Camp Story
Well when I was 10years old i went to a summer camp(Camp Pinnacle) if anyone'sinterested. You would stay for either 2,4,6 weeks,on thisparticular year I stayed the full 6 weeks. Now every Saturdaynight we would have campfires. The last 2 weeks there are onlyabout 20 campers and 5 councelors. We would share ghost storiesaround the bonfire after we reiterated on the events of that week.Well Blue Boy is one of the stories I remember so I guess I'lltell it to you. It just so happened the day they told this storywas the anniversary of the event that took place 30 years back.
It was thebeginning day of camp and parents were bringing their children tocamp. The man who started this camp had gone over the councilersresumes and noticed what seemed to be a very bright shining ladnamed Jeremiah Wilcox. He decided that he would put this 29 yearold counciler in charge of the 14-16 year old boys who would bein cabin 13 the cabin closest to the lake. Camp went fine for thefirst month everything was going better than planned. But one daythe president of camp got a complaint of a counciler hitting acamper. As luck would have it it was Jeremiah.Adam(the boy)saidhe was hit when he disturbed Jeremiah to help him make up hisbunk he said Jeremiah got up,outraged that the boy couldn't makeup his bed after 4 weeks at camp and just hauled off and punchedhim. Jeremiah confessed that he had accidently hit the boy whenhe was awakened from a bad dream. The president dismissed thesubject and asked the boy not to disturb Jeremiah when asleep.Adam stayed away from him but knew Jeremiah didn't like himbecause of all the trouble he caused.
The last week ofcamp the Indian Games were to be held. The Games were acombination of water and land sports. The last of the games was acanoo race between cabins 12&13, Jeremiahs cabin and anotherone. Now so far the cabin 13 was doing great. Until the race,nowAdam wasn't excelled in canoeing but did okay until thedetermining point of the race came when the teams had to turnaround and come back to camp. When cabin 13 came back they alllooked like they had seen a ghost, except for Jeremiah that is,he was just as radiant as could be excluding the fact they lostthe race. One of the children went to the head councilerstuttering about Jeremiah doing something bad. The boy was put inthe infirmary for the night.
The next morning atrevellie, they had roll call and realized adam was nowhere to befound. The president asked Jeremiah where the boy was,hisresponse was he fell in the the water, but not to worry he wontslow down the races next year. The president called the policeimmediately and Jeremiah was arrested after all the kids in cabin13 finally said that Jeremiah had thrown the boy out of the boatwhen the boy confessed he couldn't swim. Jeremiah pushed the boyunder 11-12 times until he just didn't come back up. He wasarrested and sent to a mental institute in Burke County NorthCarolina called Broughton Hospital. If you can find a way in goto the third floor right wing of Scroggs building and he'll bethere yelling"ADAM" evry 1 minute 30 seconds.
But back to thestory at hand. The camp closed for a couple years after that, butopened up again and everything went great they had new councilersand campers. Now the anniversary of Adams death is celebratedwith a moment of silence every year. This was the first year thatcamp had re-opened and that night was the 3 year anniversary. Itwas a warm windy night. After camp-fire was closed all the kidswent back to their cabins. Now it is said that that night incabin 13 all the kids woke up when their counciler started thesemuffled cries. None of them said anything cause they didn't wantto be killed too. The next morning the counciler had not reportedat roll-call and the head counciler walked to the cabin and heardall the kids crying. He noticed these wet foot prints which ledfrom and back to it. The ones back to it had the pebbles allstirred up stirred up,but the counciler thought nothing of it.When he walked in the cabin all the kids screamed and hid undertheir covers. The counciler was gone susposedly dragged out bysome unknown culprit. Then it finally dawned on them about Adamsdeath and his anniversary. They closed camp yet once again andboarded off cabin 13. The police could find nothing except a wetstrip of cloth on a nail in the doorway which appeared to be thesame as the shirt Adam was wearing on the day he died.
Now many of youprobably dont believe me but if you ever get a chance to visit N.C.check both these places out i assure you they're real and inHendersonville there is a camp Pinnacle. Take a look around gosee the lake chack out cabin 13 its supposed to be blocked offbut some kids broke in. walk in and if you dont feel a hint ofdeath or you aren't in the least scared I'd like to meet you.