The Camp Menshmill Ghost

From: Taylor Althouse (kurta@netcarrier.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Pennsylvania
Source: Form Submission

Pennsylvania
The Camp Menshmill Ghost
Folklore

Well it all started prolly 2 years ago. My friend and I were at his moms house and we like to go in the woods there. I'm going to keep my friends name anonomous. The first time something wierd happend in the woods was during the summer. I know my friends cousin and we go up to his house to do stuff. We decided to go into the woods and explore. Well we walked up a path and into a clearing when i heard something crashing through the woods. Just then a deer came hurtling out at us through some bushs. It barely missed us and ran off. That was kinda freaky but you might we just spooked it. Well another day we went in i heard the same thing and two buck came out at the same clearing running right at us. I dont think that was a coincidence. That same day after the deer ran by we heard this weird hissing noise coming from close by. We searched the clearing and foud nothing. We continued hearing it so we ran out of the woods.

I think this next part might have happened the next summer. We were up there and we heard these voices coming from somewhere. No body really lives close to my friend so I dont think anyone was there. We kept hearing the voices so we called out to see if anyone was there. No one answered and the voices stopped. We went down on the road to look for anyone and we found no one. We searched the woods and found no one.

Hears is where things take a different turn. I live in the country of berks county and my mom found these books called ghost stories of berks county. In one book called "Berks The Bizarre" I read a story about a camp a bike ride away form my house. It was about a hessian soldier,or mercenary during the revolutionary war for the british,who got lost from his company. He was in the woods near where the camp was built and he found a house back in the woods. He went inside and was killed downstairs in the basement. I,ve been in part of those woods but have never seen ay old house there. Now the book tells of later years after the camp was built. Some workers there dared two other guys to go and spend the night in the house. The guys agreed and went to the house. They had flashlights so they looked around inside. One guy found a boarded up trap door with a ladder leading to the basement. He went down alone. He didnt see anything at first but then in the corner of the room he saw a blue glow. It seperated into 2 and came at him. The guy ended up being drug out of the basement unconcious by the other guy. They went back to the camp and never visited the house again. The people there now have forgotten the wearabouts of this house but I will find it.If i ever do I'll relay my story back here if anything happens. I believe if it's not just animals in the woods or other logical things that this ghost may be the cause of what happened. The people see the ghost sometimes in the big barn or up on the hill. If this is true I want to see for my self and support this story. That's all for now.