Shadow people

From: John (Mrniceguy7921@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Near Rhodesia Louisiana / U.S.A
Source: Form Submission

This may sound crazy but it's true and it's the only time i have ever seen anything like this,i am not a crazy and i don't see stuff like this all the time or hear voices. I come from a small county full of small towns and most the surrounding county's are the same. Around here there is not much to do besides go out in the boondocks (middle of nowhere, woods) and shoot guns drink beer fish or have a small party.

Well, when I was in school there was a few spots we would go to hang out at. The one IM going to talk about is called the lost city. The reason it is called that is because it is what's left of an oil refinery that exploded 20 something years ago and it kinda looks like a city.

It was left alone and never tore down and the woods grew up around it. We loved to hang out there because there where lots of places to climb up on tons of concrete to tag and it was big enough that if you wanted to get some privacy you could. We had a lot of parties out there.

Well three of us got broke of the habit of going out there by the events of one night. Me and two friends of mine Greg and Justin went out there to mess around and just hang out and see if anyone else showed up. We where sitting in the car BSing when Justin told us to hush. He said he heard someone talking in the woods.

So me and Greg shut up and listened but did not hear anything. So we just sat there BSing some more deciding what to go do when we started to hear it again. It was not exactly talking more like mumbling and hissing sounds. We where sorta spooked but I thought I was just someone messing with us so I told Greg and Justin the same and they agreed with me.

so we got out of the car and started walking around acting like we where tuff guys. We yelled and cursed and said it would take more than that to scare us that we knew they where out there. It did not stop though and we did not stop because of that. We where walking slowly toward the woods with my tire tool and some sticks when Greg saw something move.

He stopped and said shhh. He pointed to where he saw the movement and we watched the wood line for more. We could still hear the sound and still thought it was friends of ours. While we where watching we started to see shadows moving around in the wood line. Justin told me to go turn the light in the car on so we could see them.

So I walked back to the car and hit the lights. When I did we saw nothing and the sound stopped. That scared us but we where still saying that it was somebody and not something. We decided that it might not be someone we know and that maybe we should go, so we all got in the car and as i started to turn around so we could go the sounds started back up again.

They where not any louder than the first time but we could see people moving all around in the woods and grass. At this point we where scared to death and i was doing my best to get the car turned around. The lights hit one of the figures and as it did we saw nothing. It was like they where there but not there.

I hit the breaks thinking i was going to run over someone, but there was no one in front of the car. Now we could see large black forms moveing along the treeline and moveing some out in to the opening toward us. They were like shadows some big and some small, some looked like people and others more like animals or shapes. I could not move i was so scared i just sat there looking at them as they moved around.

I finaly snapped out of it and We got the hell out of there, and have not been back. I dont think any of us ever want to go back. We told a few people not many but i have been told similar stories of what people around here call the shadow people. John Sanders