The old Laplander

From: Bj�n Svanel� ()
Story type: Ghost
Location: Somewhere in the forrests of Sweden
Source: Form Submission

This is a storey about a thing my uncle once got into. It happend one day that my uncle took a walk in the forest, as he always has done when he hasn"t something to do.

Well anyway he followed an old forestroad from the time the forest where peoples living. As he walked there in the hot summerheat with mosqitous flying around his head he became tired and that wasn"t so strange. He laid down on the ground besides the old road and fell almost to sleep,when something caught his attention.

He saw a person walking against him after the old road. When the distance came smaller he saw it was an old laplander. The old laplander stopped besides my uncle he said hello at finnish (which is very common language up here in the northern Sweden ) he sat down besides my uncle and they started to chatting about weather and wind you know things that people talk about when they meet for the first time. I don"t know for how long they talked but it was a long time.

After they talked the laplander kept on walking . My uncle looked at the direction of the laplander. Then suddenly he started to notice that the old man slowly disappeared right out in the nowhere. When you live out here and it"s so quiet you noticing things that is hard to notice in noisier inviroments.

I have heard many stories in my fifteen year old life .I"ve seen a UFO up in the sky, but I got stucked to this storey because I have a theorey about ghosts like this. They will not harm anyone they just want to remind people that they too have also been living.

My uncle is a man which been through a lot, heres another storey: I have been told three thing"s about building houses: Don"t you ever build a house on an old sementary,animal path or a place where the laplanders once had sacrifices. My uncle had the unfortunity to place his caravan on an old path. He had it there for three days then he moved it he never wanted to say everything what has happened. But he told me he found thing"s spread out three to four metres in both sides of the path. In a village in the neighbourhood some idiot placed a house on an old path. He never could have a nights sleep. Every night he woke of a ghost reindeerherd running through his livingroom shaking thing"s out from the bookshelf etc.

Ecxuse me the bad english but i think you know what I mean.