Lovers Ghosts?

From: Lisa (lisacobainaxl@hotmail.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: A desolate beach in Trinidad
Source: Form Submission

It was on Valentines day of 1998...a Sunday if I remember correctly. I was 15 at the time. My uncle, aunt and some cousins of mine were spending the weekend at our beachouse in the south coast of the island. My uncle always tried to scare us with ghost stories. He told us of a couple who had hanged themselves last year around this time on a tree near a river higher up the beach. It was about 8 o clock, so it was pretty dark, but it was a cool night so we decided to take a walk up the beach. It was almost completely dark. My uncle pointed out to us where the tree was that the couple had hanged themselves. At that very moment I felt a chill and I saw like a shadow was making its way between our group, it was large and faintly the shape of a man. I saw it but said nothing, but my aunt saw it too and she looked at me because she knew I saw it too. We both tried to ignore it. Then all of us started to say things like "are you feeling that?"..we had all seen it and we were extremely scared. Then we turned and on the shoreline there was an elf like figure running toward us. My uncle who had a gun fired three shots at it and we all ran out the beach back to the house. There were 8 of us in that group, all of us saw it. Soon after that the tree was cut down and even though, I still have an uneasy feeling when I return to the beachouse.