The Ghost Of

From: Eric Miller (pirateman333@att.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Atascadero, California
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Mon Jul  6 17:15:24 2009

This is from personal experience, and no one who lives in the Atascadero area should try this.

Late one night, I was listening to The Doors in my garage, my brother called me up and told me to meet him in the burnt down, abandoned, house across the street from the complex next to the dentists office, covered by a wall of vines. I declined, but when he came over, he persuaded me to go. We walked there from the house with the Doors playing in a CD player I had brought. We came through the window and proceeded to go upstairs. I was terrified of this place since the other time I was here, I had almost fallen through the floor. After I mustered up the courage to get up there, we sat down in the corner, drinking a beer, talking with the ghosts, and getting enlightened by Jim's voice. After about an hour of waiting, we came to the house at 4 am and left at 5 am, we decided to leave. Then, just as I had gotten up, my brother flashed the flashlight where I was standing, and a shadow passed through me, I also had seen something off to the corner of the light's path, like a human-esque creature sitting and watching. My brother, who had been sitting, behind the flashlight, so the creature couldn't have been him, screamed, "Did you see that?" I was really confused, but shocked because I had felt a chill, this was in the summer, so chills aren't too common. We ran downstairs, beers in hand, and to the window. Just as I was about to finish my beer, a loud bang was heard off to the corner, or behind us, I was too scared to think, I immediately dumped the rest of my beer and jumped out the window. We walked back and discussed what had just happened. We got home just at the peak of 5 am and snuck back into the garage. The final bars of The End were playing just as we had left the house.

It may not be scary to you people who regularly see a ghost, but I'm not one of those and I was terrified, and creeped out.