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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:55:58 -0700 (PDT)
To: guestbook@ghosts.org
yourname Stuart Purvis
email goldglove@hotmail.com
story " The Legend of Blue Dark"
It was the summer before my eight grade year and I was going to have a campout. I was really excited because I was going to have all of my best friends over and we were going to do my one of my favorite things to do: campout. My best friend (who i will call Jerry) had got there early to help me set up camp and the tent and everything else. Everyone else started getting there around 7:00. We went inside and decided to go ahead and eat first and then we would decide what to do then. I knew I just wanted to go in the woods and play certain war games we all loved to play. Well after we ate we decided to watch a little tv and thats what we did for about an hour or so. We got bored of that so we decided to go on and go into the woods. Now obviously u can't have a good campout unless u have a ghost story. Well the ghost story I was going to tell them was true as far as I knew. Here is the story I told them
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" three years ago i was in my bed and it was storming outside. I can't sleep well in thunderstorms so I was just laying there wide awake when all of the sudden I heard a loud crash. I got up out of my bed and rushed to the window to see what had happenned. I looked outside to see that an eighteen wheeler laying on its side in a ditch about 2 hundred yards from my house. It wasn't but about 15 minutes later when the police arrived and got everything under way. The real weird thing is the truck had crashed right by the old cemetary up the rode. Well I went back to bed and finally fell asleep. The next moring i heard my mom and dead talking about what the paper had to say about the crash. They said that the police said that the eighteen wheeler truck was carrying some sort of toxic chemical to a dump sight somewhere and that the driver had lost control and ran in to the ditch and turned on its side. Here is the weird thing, the police never mentioned the condition of the driver. But my sisters boyfriend has an uncle on the police force and he said that they never found the body, he said they found the mans clothes but never his body. The doors of the cab had been jamned up and the chemical had somehow leaked over in the cab apparently eating the mans body up. But they never found the body. My neighbor says everynow and then he stands on his back porch and can see the figure of a green glowing something running along the edge of the woods" . ---------------------------------
Ok thats the end of the story I told them. Now that really did happen. However I didn't really believe the part about the mans body being eat up or the police never finding the body. I just told them what i had heard and that is what I heard. My neighbor does say he sees a figure everynow and then and the police supposedly never did find the body. However I didn't believe it, i mean it was a ghost, I dont believe in ghost. Well any way after I told them the story we were in the woods just walkin along talking. I told everyone to turn their flashlights off and just walk in the dark ( it wasn't dark enough for us not to see where we were going cause it was a perfectly clear night). Well after a few minutes we turned the lights back on and right when we did jerry said Billy(thats what I will call myself), what is that? I turned and froze dead in my tracks. I could n't move, I couldn't even breath. Finally after a second (what seemed like and eternity) I said " thats him yall" . There standing about 40 yards away stood what seemed to be like a bright blue glow in the form of a human. I was remembering telling the story of my neighbor seeing a green glow, but this was not green it was the like the color of the Ocean off the coast of Florida. It was just a bright blue glow. What got me is when I shined the flash light on it--it disappeared and I moved the flashlight just to the right of it to just take the light off of it again--and it reappeard. All of this took place within about 4-7 seconds. All of the sudden it started running toward us and believe me it was FAST. But we were so scared a car coudlnt have caught us. We were moving faster than I ever thought we could.
As we were runnin I heard it scream or roar or whatever that sound was. All I know is that was the most horrible sound I had ever heard. That made us run all the more faster. We ran to my neighbors house first and my friend(who i will call Danny) ripped the screen door off the hinges tryin to get in the house. Funny thing is Danny is about as big as a toothpick and has no strength whatsoever. Atleast he hadn't been strong up untill that point. He didin't even know my neighbors but he didnt care about nothing but gettin away. He just ran into my neighbors house and grabbed hold of (Miss Clara) hugging her as a little ] child who grabbs his moma after not seeing her for a day. We were all so scared we coudnl't talk right and get out to my neighbors what we had seen. Finally they took all of us back to my house (which was only about 100 yards away). We were still shaken up and couldnt' talk right. My moma was tryin to get out of us what happened but we just coudn't say anything straight. Then my dad came in from the room from hearing all of the fus. He kept trying to figure out what had happened and it didn't take him long. This is what made me realize it was real. My dad looked me straight in the eye after about 5 minutes and said "you saw him didn't u"? I was shocked!! My dad knew what had happened. He said "I told you not to take them back there near that cemetary, I told you not to! But you did it anyway didnt u?" I asked him "Dad how do you know?" He said " cause I seen him to". He told me that he saw him late one night coming home from the garden and it chased him to, but he never told me that cause he didn't want to frighten me.
Well I knew then what i had seen was no joke, it was no prank someone had played on us. What I had ] seen was a real live ghost(or should I say a real dead ghost). After a few hours we just started referring to the ghost as "blue dark". And from this day on thats a well known story to people around my neighborhood. I have never been back to that spot again, at least not at night anyway.I don't thing I ever will either. I know this, I don't blame anyone for not believing in ghost but I know what i saw and it ain't right. I have never in my life been more scared that what I was then and I doubt I ever will. In case your wondering where this story took place I will tell u now. It took place in Natchez, Mississippi. It was the the scariest time of life.