Ghost on the Mountain

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: Piedmont, Missouri
Source: Form Submission

My grandparents had a house in the Ozarks of Missouri. They owned acres of land so my family decided to build a house about 100 yards from them. As a little girl I would often become very frightened when visiting them. My aunt who was along in years often spoke of "the white Lady" who was visiting her or setting the dinning room table. We past it off as her being senile. But after we moved into our new house when I was older I believed her.

It all began with small things. Sounds of foot steps and doors opening on their own. "wind" and the house settleing. But our house was new!

When I would be sitting by myself the hair on my neck would prickle, my skin get cold, my ears ring, and a sickening perfume would fill the air. It was one afternoon when I was home alone these things began to occur for the first time. I felt I was being watched so I looked up to see a little girl peeking around the corner of the hall into the livingroom where I sat. She had on a old fashioned dress and straight hair. She was like a brownish drawing. Almost like she had been etched in the air yet three dimesional.

I had friends over like any typical junior high schooler. But after several of them were awakened by "clammy hands" and "a lady in white" I began to believe my aunt. But I didn"t know why she or the little girl would be in my house.

My family moved after my parents divorced and my mother rented the house out. A year later the rentes moved saying the house was possesed.

I don"t know what was in that house, but it was in my grandmothers home too. Both were on the mountain. Perhapse the girl and the lady in white once lived there.