Unbelievable But True

From: Justin (Rueboy18@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: decatur il   greenwood cemetary
Source: Form Submission

As i begin this story i would like to state that i have no belief in the paranormal or anything to that extent i am only going to report the events as i had percieved them. There is on fact that people have used to attempy to call my story B/S. And that is the fact that it occurred in a cemetary at or around midnight on halloween. I was taking part in a Decatur tradition you see our town was estabolished prior to the civil war and ever since stories have been passed about hauntings that occur all over the city. One decatur resident put these stories to paper. The books are called Haunted Decatur. There are about four in the series. The author had returned this particular halloween to give a tour to promote his newest book that talked about the various hauntings that occur at millikin university and it's campus. On this tour we visited many "supposed" haunting that all were dissappointing to say the least i was wanting to see something back then i actually was open minded.!

The last stop on this tour was one of the oldest cemetary's in the city called Greenwood cemetary. By now i was bored and decided to walk of on my own my friend cory followed me a few feet behind. I walked down into a valley and began looking at this strange row of grave stones wondering what had happened only to discover that these were the graves of those who used to be burried in the mosoleum that had been condemned then taken down i walked along reading the stones they all told a small bit about the lives of those they contained within. I looked up and about one hundred feet away was a woman. who looked at real as you or I. She was beautiful and immediately i was taken with her but to play it cool i acted like i hadn't noticed her she waved to me and i noticed she was wearing a beautiful white wedding gown.Now i didn't see anything wrong with this because we were all dressed up after all we it was halloween. I looked down pretending to read the stones once again. i looked! up again and she was less than ten feet away from me and walking towards me so smoothly that it seemed she wasn't even walking. She was marvelous i smiled and said hello my name is justin and held out my hand. Suddenly from behind me Cory yelled "Justin tours leaving tell that girl your with to come on......" He stopped in mid sentence I had turned to face him and he was pale white with his jaw agape. I turned to see what he was looking at and there was nothing there no girl no nothing needless to say i departed very quickly. as we left the cemetary the tour guide and author of the book told us a final story about a bride who had committed suicide right before she was to be married. and that she was seen on very rare occations in the south lot. Guess which lot i had seen that awe inspiring pale beauty.