--Not my story--
This one was told to me by a Columbus officer that works the West side. In the Hilltop area of Columbus (not a place to go without a gun... you could end up as a ghost!) there is a cemetery called Camp Chase. It has over 2000 confederate graves packed together and surrounded by a large stone wall. In the center is a statue of a civil war era soldier, and a large rock with writing on it.
The officer that told me this, said that he often chased kids out of there, as they would sneak in for a quiet place to light up a doobie or to drink a beer. He said one night he stopped his car down from the gate and heard some teenagers in there playing around. He said that he decided to scare them, and started to look for a quick way around the back, where he might be able to sneak in undetected.
He said he heard one of the boys say, "What was that?" and numerous follow up comments from the other kids. He said he stood still as he was afraid that they had heard him. He heard them say it again, and one kid start to whimper. He then said they started to yell, and he could hear a girl crying, so he dropped the idea of scaring them and ran around to the front gates. He said that as he ran in, they came running out past him, yelling all the way.
He told me that when he got inside he shined his light all around, and didn't see anything. He said he then walked over to the side of the wall where he had heard them, and smiled, because they had abandoned their beer and their penthouse magazine.
He said that right then he saw something move out of the corner of his eye, like a flash of smoke between the stones about 15 stones away. He said he shined his light over there, and started to walk toward the area, thinking that maybe one of the kids had stayed behind. He said he then saw the flash of grayish smoke about 10 stones away, again to his left, even though he was now heading toward where he had originally seen it.
He said he did a quick 360, shining his light all over the place. About that time he heard a woman's voice, but he couldn't make out the words. He said the voice just sounded alternately sad and angry. He told me that he kept spinning around, and that he saw the "misty form" moving as fast as a college sprinter, in a tighter and tighter circle around him. He said that in two quick revolutions it went from about 5 stones away to about 2, and all the while the voice of this woman kept getting louder, at this point like a hysterical crying.
He said that when the thing went around him the last time he tripped against a stone while moving backwards, fell, and dropped his light, which went out. He told me that he just had the most horrible feeling, like if he didn't get up right then a pair of hands was going to grab him from the grave he landed on. He said he jumped straight up, and ran as fast as he could, through the gate and across the street.
He told me that it took him ten minutes to work up the courage to go back to his cruiser by the wall.
I've been in there, and I think it is a neat place. I would go back again. Then again, I haven't been chased by a gray, wailing, mist creature.
