Close Encounter with the Dead

From: Jade (dean13411@yahoo.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: woods Behind Granddad's old barn
Source: Form Submission

This is proberly gonna sound very weird,But it's all true i asure you that. Now before i tell you this story let me tell you a little about my self. Im a 15 year old girl who completly beleives in Ghosts and supernatural happenings and events so here it goes.......

behind my grandfathers old barn is a big old forest. well we (meaning my family and freinds) Know that the barn is haunted so nobody really uses it but nobody knew the woods were haunted until last summer when we took the horses out for a ride. Me and my freind Sandra were out riding down an old overgrown path my granddad's neighbor told us to take. Well i guess the woods have an old local legend about them the legend goes that the old farm that my granddad lives on used to be inhabbited by this family in the late 1900's.

The family had two little kids a girl and a boy. The legend says the kids were twins and they were horses freaks so when they turned my age, 15, they both got a horse the Girl got a black one the boy got a white one.So they went for rides almost every day well one day their neighbor told the boy to ride in the woods on an overgrown path. Well the boy went for a ride along that same old overgrown path. He was told to come back before dinner. Well when he didn't show ,his sister went looking for him on foot. About an hour latter every one on the farm heard a scream. When they found the girl she was standing over her brothers mutalated body they couldn't find his horse.

So about a year latter the girl went ridding with-----get this------her freing named sandra. well sandra had a brown horse so the girls were riding along an old overgrown path when the horses started to act a little strange well the girls horse reared then bolted. So sandra kicked her horse after her so the girls latter found them selves in the middle of the forest still on their horses when a beautiful white horse came up. he was fully taked up so the girls thought it must be cloud, the boys horse. But when the girl reached out to take the horses reins he pulled away and went back into the trees about a secound latter he came back out with a rider on his back. both girls reconized him immeditly as ryan the girls twin brother who every one knew was dead.

Well the legend says that the boy told the girls to turn around and leave before it was to late. well the sister wouldn't go no matter how hard sandra tried to plede with her so sandra stopped pleding. that's when they heard it a deep throated howl. the horses reared throwing the girl but sandra held on. while her horse bolted about a mile out of the woods sandra came up to the farm. They all heard a scream get cut off short. when they went back they found the girls mutalatted body laying next to a dead wolf. the horse was standing wild eyed. there was no trace of the boy or cloud.

Now back to present time me and sandra having just heard this story are riding threw the woods when sandra hears a twig smap she said it was just her horsePrince stepping on one. But we both knew diffrently. about twelve minets later a wild eyed black arabian stallion came out of the bushes (and he looked almost exactly like my horse that i was riding). Then out nowhere a boy on a white horse comes up and says to get away from the woods before it's two late. Well unlike the girls in the story we hightailed it outa there. But not before he called me lizzy.

When we got back to the farm We told my granddad about the boy and what he called me. my granddad said that the boy was ryan and he had been helping people, saving their lives for nearly 50 years. And my granddad also siad he knew why ryan called me Lizzy. Then my granddad went up into the attick we followed he pulled out a huge oil painting from an old canvas tarp the picture was of the family the mother the father and the two kids when they were 15.

Now here's a fact thats personel, but here it is. i lost my twin brother when he fell from the hay loft in the barn.Well the boy in the picture looked almost exactly like my brother who died in the barn. the boy's name was ryan my brothers name was Ryan. Creepy but very true. Andthe girl looked exactly like me my granddad said ryan and lizzy were as close as me and my Ryan had been. And that ryan in the woods thought i was his sister.