Did I Dream This

Name:            Mallissa
Email:           dolphinlvr@hotmail.com
Location:        Tacoma,Washington
Type:            Ghost
Date:            Monday, April 10, 2000
Time:            12:22 PM

I have never done this before, but i need to tell someone. Its kind of long, so please bare with me. 

When i was 16 me and my friends were driving to another friends house in Puyallup. It was about 8:00 at night, not storming or anything. And when you take a certain way to Puyallup you have to go over this bridge that is kind of scary at night. Its just real rickety and such. Right below it is a river, people fish there all the time. So its not unusual to see people on the bridge, and by the water below. 

Well we got about half way across and i was just looking down to see if anyone was fishing when i saw a face out side my window. His face wasn't clear to be, but i could see him moving what appeared to be his arm, almost beckoning me to him. Needless to say i was scared out of my pants. And i screamed! 

I scared my friend as well and the car swerved. She jammed on the brakes ,as she came to a stop she looked at me like i was nuts! I looked behind me, checking to see if anyone was there, thinking maybe someone was fishing there. But i looked and saw no one. Not wanting my friend to think i was nuts, I just laughed it off, telling her i was only trying to see how scared i could get her. 

So we drove off, I was quite shaken about the whole thing. I had never seen anything like that in my life, and was not one to believe in ghosts or any such thing. When we got to our other friends house i pulled her aside and told her about what i had seen. I trusted her with what i had to say. I think everyone has a friend who believes in such things, and she was mine.

She really wasn't sure of what she might say, i could tell it kind of scared her too, but she was NOT going to admit it. So we just decided that maybe i was seeing some kind of shadow or something, but at 8:00 at night? 

Well over the next couple of days i had forgotten all about it, and had never told another soul. Until i drove up to my moms work in Kent, at a deli/convenience store to pick her up after her 3-11 shift. And they have a TV. behind the counter for her to watch when all the work is done, and no customers are there. And when i walked in i heard the 11:00 news cast about to come on so i sat there and watched TV. while waiting for my mom to count her drawer. 

I wasn't really paying any attention, until a story came on about a body being found. So i directed my attention to the television. Right in time to see a picture of the face i saw that night! It was the same face of the man i had seen that night. 

I almost had a heart attack! And the body was found right under the bridge we were driving over just a few nights ago. 

But why did i see him? Come to find out he was fishing with a buddy had been caught in the flow of the river, and had been pulled under. Just a few minutes before i saw him on the bridge. His body had been washed 3 miles down stream. 

Was he trying to tell me that his body was below?? Or did i just imagine it? If i imagined it, then why would i picture a face of a man that i had never seen, nor met for that matter? Or was this truly a case of the dead trying to reach the living?? 

Can anyone tell me what occurred that night? 

Any help or explanation would be appreciated.