Interesting topic and read!
So in light of Halloween, I'll share something that happened to me:
I didn't believe in ghost until it happened that I saw one last year.
Every year before thanksgiving dinner, Kao (guy cousin) and Yuni (younger sister) and I, would go on a 8 - 10 miles hike and climb up a narrow mountain. That year, we left at 5 am and started our adventure. We usually finish by 6 pm at the latest if we start early.
This time, Kao had driven us to a different mountain, that we had never been to before. He told us that he had googled it and found it to be a challenging but a worthwhile hike and climb for us. So off we went.
Halfway through the day, Kao climbed and jumped over a small locked gate to the side. Something inside me told me, it was a bad idea. I refused to jump it. It clearly had a sign that said
"Do Not Enter. Trespassers Prohibited beyond this point." But Yuni had also jumped over the gate. I followed.
It led us to a long shadowy forest and then to a twisty narrow dirt path which led up to the mountain.
We hiked and climbed. Kao didn't want to stop until he reached the top. When we did reach the top, it was 1:30pm.
We quickly ate our lunch and made our way back. Somehow this time around, the surrounding looked different. It got darker. No birds chirping. No other human but ourselves. It was dead silent. We were exhausted and we didn't talk. We were just concentrating on getting back. The sun had set. The moon was slowly easing out into the night sky. We walked faster one after the other. Stumbling on a few rocks by the way. Still quiet.
Then in front of us, we saw a little shadow in the distant by the edge of the twisty narrow trail. We all saw it, I asked "What is that?" Kao answered "oh it's nothing, just our shadows". "That can't be our shadows" Yuni replied. With that, Kao moved to the back. Being protective of my sister, I told her to walk behind me, and I will lead. We walked faster in silent for a few more miles.
It got dark. Fog had slowly crept in behind us as we raced down the mountain onto the trail. Every corner we turned, we were fearful. We had forgotten our flashlight. Our phones were dead and now we didn't know what time it was. All of a sudden, Kao ran right into Yuni and knocked her down. He ran right past me into the distance. I grabbed Yuni and we chased. Once we caught up to him, he said "We have to get home. I didn't want to tell you, but there was a little girl walking with us the whole time."
I slapped him, he was going crazy. He usually never say crazy things like that, being the most righteous goody too-shoe Christian I know. Yuni whimpered a little, scared. We held onto one another, this time, I walked last. We finally made it to the shadowy forest. It was so quiet. The fog was making it difficult for us to see. We were more afraid that we didn't bring any equipment to shelter us for the night, since it was suppose to be a day trip. It got cold. Now we were scared of bears. Then Yuni stopped. There in front of us, was a little white girl with brown hair. As clear as a real human being. She stared at us and pointed in front of us. We knew it was a ghost for reals because her eyes were black and her feet wasn't touching the ground.
We darted, and kept running, until we were out of there. Once we got into the car, our phones turned on. We made it home around 10pm bruised, ankle swollen and got an earful. Kao, to this day, still claims, it was exhaustion and dehydration that made us imagine things.
But if 3 people see the same thing, it sure wasn't an illusion.
