The Haunted Path in the Yard

From: Marie Jo Cantuaria (mariejopink25@yahoo.com.br)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Dionísio Cerqueira - SC - Brazil
Source: Form Submission

Well, let me tell you this real story on a simple manner. On 2004, I traveled to a small town next to Argentina, but still in Brazil, called Dionisio Cerqueira.

It was the first time I was there, and we were supposed to meet my husband's aunts and Grandpa. My husband wanted to introduce me his family, that are all simple and humble country people, very easygoing and always had lots of ghost and strange stories to tell.

Well, those stories never scared me because after reading so many articles and looking at so many fake pictures of ghosts, I realized they do not exist.

Then I was about to change my mind.

Well, by that time, we spent some days at my husband's aunt's house, Theresa, who owned a very big but empty country house as she lived alone. The yard was full of peach, orange and grape trees, cows and pigs, and the dogs and chickens everywhere and like most of the country houses in Brazil, the bathroom was outside the house, in a wood cabinet where one or two people could get inside at once.

Well, then I decided to get some peaches at the yard, and I was alone when I started to get a strange feeling that someone was aroudn watching me. I heard some noises like footsteps breaking small bushes and pieces of wood, like someone or something was coming to me, but there was nothing, not a dog or chicken. I then called my husband to check if he was trying to trick me, but he was not even in the house, they were all on the other side, and I was completely alone. When I got back to the yard, at that same place, there was a small path between some orange trees that leaded to the bathroom cabinet. I felt nothing strange in the whole yard, only in that path, near the peach trees and the bathroom.

During that days that we spent at the house, nothing happened, the only unnual thing was the fear that scared me to dead when I had to go to the bathroom in the evening or very early in the morning when a strange and cold fog surrounds the area. I can't describe how my heart starts beating hard and heavy, I just felt a strong presence but even so I went to the bathroom and to the yard all alone, trying to face my unnusual fear as just a supertition or a foolish thing.

The next year, on 2005, we went there again to visit my husband's family. And again the same heavy and strong feeling that someone was watching me at the yard of Theresa's house. Again the same noises of footsteps on the grasses and bushes but nothing was coming towards me. I also asked my husband if he was trying to trick me, but again, he was not there. My heart was heavy again, but I still didn't mention this strange feeling to my husband and his aunt.

During the nights we spent there, there were kids at the house. On only one night, strange things happened and everyone were able to presence them. At one night, we could hear footsteps at the roof, and the dogs were yawning in a strange way the whole night. I could hear something beat at the window for some moments, and Theresa said it would be a fox.

But then, I heard a kid's footsteps coming from Theresa's bedroom, and it was running, and then stopped right in front of me. I thought it could be my husband's small cousing, and when I opened my eyes, there was nothing in front of me. My husband confirms he heard the same thing.

Then, we left the town some days after, and went to Chapecó to visit another cousin of my husband, that is Theresa's son, name Sidney Well, at night, we were all gathered at the yard talking about old stories of ghosts and beliefs of the old people of that area, when I mentioned to Sidney's wife the strange feelings I had at her mother-in-law back yard. She then looked at me and said: YOU TOO??

Then, Sidney's started telling us a story; that later was confirmed by Theresa; about a couple of nice elders that lived near Theresa's house. Everyday when they came back from the labor in the fields, they had to get a path at Theresa's back yard so they could get home faster. The same path that now leads to the peach trees and near the bathroom.

But one day, about 15 or 20 years ago, they were killed by a young and crazy man that lived around. He was drunk and got an axe to kill the poor couple. He was arrested then, but alleged he was possessed by the demon. No one believed him obviously. Theresa also said that he is free already, and that people saw him in town.

The couple's bodies, or the rest of them, still spent almost two days resting in a wagon in front of Theresa's house before the cops could take all information and bury them, as they had no family.

This certainly was an humilliation for these two poor people, and I strongly believe now, that the strange feeling that crushed my hearth with fear and sadness, was the presence of the two elder's spirits, that were still making their way home or something like that.

If there are not ghosts there, there is certainly a very powerful presence or force, because of the evil things that happened in the past.