From: JulieFox1@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Ghost Story - Millers Church
Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 12:34 AM
I tried to send this on the site, heh, but it didn't appear to be going through..sorry if you got this more than once :)
I have always been interested in this sort of stuff, and I often visit these websites for updates on hauntings near me. One haunted place near me is Millers Church, on Millers Church Road in Hagerstown, Maryland. I'd bugged 2 of my friends the other night to go to this church, but they refused to go at dark...
One of my friends told me that they'd been there before, and this is the story of what happened in the early 1930's, and the story of what happened to him. The story goes that in the early 1930's, Millers Church was originally a catholic church. Then it was overran by satanists who performed a ton of rituals and rites and used young girls as sacrifices, until the church burned down years later. Rumor had it that sometimes at night you could see a body hanging from a tree near the church, or get chased by a hearse...
What happened to my friend, in retrospect, was not all that different.. he had not known the story when he went there (years ago), and yet he told me that he'd gone inside the church with a few friends, and that they had all looked up and seen a body hanging from the rafters. Then my friend felt hands on him, pulling at him.
I didn't know what to make of all this, but I begged my friends to go.. and they wouldn't. But this morning, on April 1st, they called me up and offered to go during daylight hours, and I was all for it. The weather was not too cold or hot, just right, and it was a beautiful day. They picked me up and I directed them back to Millers Church Road. We'd driven for awhile but we hadn't seen the church, and my friend could not remember where it was. For future reference, and as a relevant part of the story--it turns out that the site of the church was not visible from the road. You have to park just past the graveyard and walk through it, and up into the woods, to where you'll find a fence of barbed wire and a bit of open, circular area, with trees all around. Anyhow, me and my friends hiked through the graveyard and came upon the area where the church used to be. It turns out it's been gone for some time, but theres no evidence that it was ever there... yet residents swear it was there.
At first, nothing seemed to happen. I wandered around, totally interested in the whole area. One of the trees I found had been completely hollowed out from top to bottom in a perfect circular pattern... yet it was still standing and didn't even appear dead. I noticed some residue on the tree as well. Next, me and my friends ducked under some barbed wire to walk a bit further beyond the site, where we found lots of shotgun shells, like someone had been firing wildly at something... not often you'd see a bunch of shells in one spot from someone shooting at an animal, you know? We began to feel a strange aura of energy, and one of my friends began to flip out, so we headed back to the barbed wire where we'd came in. Thats when we noticed the first strange thing--a clump of blonde hair caught in the barbed wire that hadn't been there when we came in. Since I was the only one who wasnt going to flip out, I got a closer look at the hair. I found it to be brittle and quite aparently old... and none of us had blonde hair. Next, my friend tripped over a bone that appeared to be the structure of a small animal, except it was perfectly intact, despite appearing to be very old, and pieces of it crumbled at my touch.... yet it had remained unfettered for as long as it was there...
Unfortunately, as we returned to the trail where we entered the actual site of the church, my friend that had been freaking out noticed another bone that was identical to the one we'd just seen a ways back. I backtracked and found the one that we'd just looked at was gone. Confused, I returned to my friends and noticed another bone about 2 feet from the first, partially covered by leaves. I picked it up and dropped it immediately.. it was ice cold to the touch, and was remarkably similiar to a human thigh bone.. you could even tell where the kneecap would be. My friend panicked worse, and started to climb through the last bit of barbed wire to the trail leading back to the road. I was still studying the bone when she screamed, and my other friend and I both looked at her, and she was babbling about getting shocked three times in her wrist by the barbed wire fence. Both of us touched the wire, and neither of us got shocked, but she continued to go on and on about it, getting hysterical. The air got really tight around us, and she could hardly breathe, she said, so we rushed her back to the car...
As we sat in the car she continued to go on and on, and we all lit cigarettes to calm down. Then my friend and I both touched her arm, and we felt energy and pain go through our own arms. It was extremely strange.... then she got very quiet and started driving, and wouldn't stop.. she kept screaming for us to get the spirit out of her, she was convinced it was in her.. so we directed her to a Haven Lutheran Church. That's when we noticed fingernail marks digging into her hand, and a cut appeared on her wrist. This freaked us out, and we drove back to my friends house and gave her a cross to hold. She said this made her feel better, and we all calmed down a bit.. then all at once the three of us felt this energy leaving us, and she said her arm no longer hurt...
The entire visit was a trip, and I can't wait to go back at night.... but everyone's afraid to go! If I go, alone or with someone, I'll send the story in.
Julie