Haunted Road
I often attendedgatherings at my friend Carrie's house. There would typically beabout 10 to 15 of us and Wes and I were usually there. Carrielived in a neighborhood that was often the center of "ghost"stories. I had heard many of thema nd never put much stock inthem...most of them were similar and told by teenagers in thearea.
Now at this particular party there was only people that I knew.Christine (who I would trust in any paranormal experience becauseshe had witnessed things w/ me), Wes (who you have heard about inprevious posts), Jeff (my now ex boyfriend), Johnny (Carriesboyfriend who was a very sensetive person and always honest withme), Amy (who I disliked most of the time because she was acompulsive liar), Carrie (who never witnessed anything paranormalin her entire life),a group of guys (who were inseperable andloyal to thier friends including me), and myself. I am sure thatthere were other people there, they just have nothing to do withthis experience:).
Amy asked me around 12 if I would walk with her. It was a bitsmoky in the house and I welcomed the chance to get some freshair. Carries house was on kind ofa circular rode..maybe 20minutes from her house, around the circle and back to thebeginning again.
Now as Amy and I walked by the sign to Carries neighborhood shethought she heard something behind us. I ignored her, knowingthat she had an overactive imagination (and also thought shemight be lying to get a scare out of me). Once around the cornerand on to the side road I also thought I heard something behindus. It wasnt a sounmd that I could name, nothing that could becalled anything...just a audible awarness that something wasthere. I tried to ignore it (gee maybe if I pretend it isnt thereit will go away..hehe). The sound stopped for a time and Amy andI walked on, a bit nervous, yet not overly scared. As we gotabout halfway down the winding back road I felt a very coldbreeze...it was in the middle of summer so you can imagine howwierd that was. I turned around because the breeze had come frombehind me. All the way down at the end of the road (yes, I know Isaid it was curvy, but not that curvy:) I could see a figurestanding. It was more of a shadow or! ! , how do I explain this...likewhen I was in kindergarden we would stand in fron tof a light sothat another student could trace our profile....thats exactlywhat it was like. It was the middle of the night, so that givesyou an idea as to how dark the "shadow" was.
Amy and I paused momentarily to look back and the figure movedfoward, not noticably walking, but still moving foward. Wedecided who ever it was we didnt know him and would hurry to getback to the house (at this point we werent really thinking ofghosts..just some creepy guy).
I am not sure what spooked us but we began to run. As we got tothe end of the curvy raod we could see the guy turning the last (and only sharp turn) and coming to us quickly. I stopped and hestopped. I faced him for a moment and the entire time Amy wasscreaming at me and wondering what teh hell I was doing. Now Imust have accidently "thrown" my anger at him becauseit/ he stumbled backwards...I dont know if stumble is the rightword..he just kind of jerked back..all of him..as if he was astiff peice of wood, not a person with arms and legs. AT thispoint I got really scared (oops, do you think I pissed it off?).
As I turned to hurry to the house I heard Amy exclaim "WHatthe hell?!?!". I turned once more to teh shape and it glowed!A translucent reddish purple haze for a fraction of a second andthen it darted foward!
I ran with all my strength to the house and inside. Just as Amyand I slammed the door there was a loud bang against the door andthe door shook. Carries dog barked and ran from the room howling.
Wes, Johnny, Carrie and a few other people were in the room. Amyand I related what had happened and of course all the "men"wanted to investigate. I got up the courage to go with them andwe all started walking towards the neighbohood sign again. Asthey were slowly walking and scoping everything out I feltsuddenly drawn towards something in front of me. I hurried alongand after that I dont recall much.
The others saw the figure up ahead of me and called to me. Ididnt seem to hear them and they started to run after me. AT somepoint they caught me and had to literally drag me kicking andscreaming to the house. I am only 5'2 and at the time I was not avery heavy person. It took Wes, Johnny, Jeff and another guy todrag me back to the house. All of these guys were pretty largeand normally could have brought me back on thier own, but tehysay I was screaming, clawing and make this god awful noisesomewhat akin to a cat fight. At this point everyone decided itwould be best to stay in side. We spent the remainer of the nightin the basement away from all the windows and doors (can youimagine a bunch of people that scared?).
To this day none of us has figured out what happened. I dont knowwhat happened to me (maybe a spirit took control but I dopntthink I want to think about that). The same figure has beenspotted by others in the same area and no one bothers to go nearit anymore. I welcome any comments and would enjoy some insightif anyone knows of this sort of experience. It happed justoutside of Annapolis...in the boondocks of ST. Margarettes.