A couple of days ago, my friend (who I'll call Lily to protect her privacy because she asked me to) and I were talking in the hallway before class when all of a sudden she exclaimed, "I saw a ghost this weekend!"
Of course, that totally made a Monday morning better, so I immediately began asking her for details. She was a bit hyper and so at first she didn't exactly give me the straightest of answers, but I eventually weaseled them out of her, as well as permission to put them up on here for you to share.
This happened on Saturday, October 20th, between ten and eleven o'clock at night (according to Lily, closer to eleven). Lily and her friend Tyler were walking down Elm Avenue, a local street, to meet Lily's curfew, and Lily was the first to notice it. In the front yard of one of the houses there, a decoration of some sort was hanging from a tree, and though there was no breeze or anything Lily noticed that it was swinging.
No. I know that in itself is not a sign of a ghost, so shut up and don't post angry comments, all right?
Lily looked closer, wondering what had caused the decoration to start swinging, and nudged Tyler, wondering if he knew. She looked next to the tree, and then she saw...whatever the heck it was. Lily says she saw it first peeking out from behind the tree and then, when she blinked and looked again, it was, well, out there. The way she described it to me, it was "definitely female," and put her in mind of Samara--you know, the freaky ghost-thing from The Ring. I can't vouch for it, of course, as I wasn't with her, but she said that it was, aside from being "definitely female," it had long hair hanging down over its face and ragged clothing. It was too dark, she said, for her to make out specific colors or features, but she knew what she saw and immediately freaked out, pointing it out to Tyler. Both of them looked at each other and turned and ran--well, Tyler had a skateboard, so he more rolled than ran. But you get the idea.
I wanted to be careful about this; I didn't want to risk my reputation by putting something up here and saying it was a ghost she saw when it turns out it was really another Halloween decoration propped up in the front yard or something. So I asked Lily if it could have been a fake figure, like a scarecrow or prop witch or something, but she assured me it wasn't--after all, what kind of decoration peeks out from behind a tree and then decides to pop out? And she had looked at that spot before, when the hanging decoration was moving, so if it really had been there the whole time, she would have seen it.
I wasn't there, like I said before, so I can't say without a doubt that it was a ghost that Lily and Tyler saw. But I trust Lily and know she wouldn't lie to me, especially about something I would love to build a (nonpaying) career around. And I plan to go down Elm Avenue one day soon myself and check out the front yard myself, just to see what I can see. So what did Lily see? I can't tell you, and unless you know Lily she can't really either. But I can say that I don't doubt her, and unless I can prove without a doubt that it was just some scarecrow she saw, I'll always be looking a bit more carefully when I see hanging decorations start to swing without a breeze...after all, you never know who you could run into out there.
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