Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

Be sure to read The Tune Of Death Part 1

When I got home I told Michelle about this girl and the hearse, so we agreed to go back to the school after lunch. We finished eating and told Mom where we were going, she told us to be back before dinner time. As we were walking past the grave yard we saw the girl, standing there over a grave site. Michelle and I went into the grave yard and walked over to her. She was singing that same song that I herd her singing by the tree, But it was different. There was more added to it, she said “Come little children I’ll take thee away into a garden of magic.. Come little children your time has arrived, here in the garden of magic…” Again her back was faced to us, so we didn’t see her face. I asked her again what her name was but she didn’t answer me, she just giggled and skipped away.

Michelle and I ran after her to see who she was, but she went into the corn maze in the other paddock. Curious as we were we followed her in shouting at her to stop running. Finally after running for ages she stopped, with her back faced towards us. We asked her “Why did you run away from us?” She didn’t reply. “What’s you’re name?” Michelle asked. She muttered something, but I couldn’t hear what she was saying. “Could you speak louder?” I said. “Gabby” she said in her soft voice and then she ran away into the maze. We were satisfied that she at least said something to us, so we headed back home. When we arrived home We heard mom and dad talking about a recent death in the community but he didn’t know much about it.

We all went to bed after dinner, and I heard the strange noises coming from the attic again. I went into Michelle’s room and she was lying in her bed looking up at the ceiling. “Did you hear that?” She whispered. I nodded and said “Should we go and check it out?” She agreed. As we were walking to the stairs leading up to the attic, we heard noises coming from down the hall. We looked to see what it was but no one was there. As we got closer we heard foot steps getting closer and closer, We both started to feel scared so we ran down the attic stairs… ROOOOAAAARR!!! We screamed, as loud as we could. It was only my brother Nick playing a prank on us! Mom and Dad woke up, “What’s going on here kids?” Mom said angrily. “He..he, he…” muttered Michelle in shock. “Nick scared us mom, he creeped up behind us and scared us to death!” I said. “That’s enough you three! Get to bed I don’t want any more nonsense coming from either of you’s, got it!” Mom said. “Yes Mom!” We said and went back to bed.

The next morning was our first day of school, we were so excited! We had breakfast and then mom told us to jump in the car. We arrived at school and I looked over at the large tree with the tire swing where the girl Gabby was sitting. Mom said “Hurry up girls, we have a meeting with the principle now.” So we went to meet the principle and get settled into our class. Our teacher is Mrs. Stoneridge, she’s nice and made us feel very welcome. We made some new friends called Jessica, Angela and Tamara they were very nice as well. We were sitting outside eating our lunch I asked “Do you know this girl, her name is Gabby?” The three girls looked at me in Shock and went all silent. Michelle and I looked at each other with a puzzled look on our faces. “Was it something she said?” Michelle asked. “No.” Said Jessica. “It’s just a weird question that’s all.” Why is it weird?” I asked. Tamara replied “No one has talked about Gabby, until she.. you know.” ” Know what?” Michelle said. “You don’t know??” said Angela. “Come with us after school and we will show you something okay..”

We were wondering all day what it could’ve been. Why did they react weirdly when we mentioned Gabby’s name? It was all kinda strange to me. It was the end of the day and Me, Michelle, Angela, Jessica and Tamara were walking towards the grave yard. We walked in, me and Michelle were wondering why we were here. They pointed to the old grave with cob webs and moss all over it. It was hard to see the name that was written on there so we scrubbed at it with our jerseys until it was good enough for us to read. It said “Gabriella Wythers, Gabby. Died June 13th 1991.” We didn’t understand, could it be the Gabby that we met in the maze? So I asked what she was wearing when she was buried. They said that she wore a white dress with a bow at the back, black shoes and her hair was out.

I couldn’t believe it, She was the same girl.. She’s DEAD! Michelle asked ” How did she die?” Angela said “She was a difficult person..” “What do you mean?” I asked. “She had some sort of disability and her mother couldn’t look after her any more, because she was a really difficult child.” “Her mother got sent to prison for her murder, some say she didn’t mean to do it.. It just all got way to much for her mother to cope with and she just had enough and, killed her.” said Tamara. “How did she kill her?” I asked. “There’s lot’s of theories as to how she died, but no one really knows..” said Jessica. “See that scripture at the bottom..” said Angela. We nodded in shock. “That was the song her mother sang to her while her daughter was dying on the ground.” “How do you know that?” asked Michelle. “Gabby’s brother witnessed it!” said Tamara.

“Some people ended up in the looney bin because they swore that they heard and saw Gabby singing it after she died!” said Jessica. And the three of them started to laugh. “Yeah, like as if she came back from the dead and started singing that stupid song!” Joked Angela. Then we heard something coming from the corn maze, it sounded like someone was singing. Then they stopped laughing “Can you hear that?” said Tamara. It was Gabby walking towards us.

“Come little children I’ll take thee away into a garden of magic.. Come little children you’re time has arrived here in the garden of Magic.”

Written by D B Rapata-McTainsh, Copyright 2009