Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

I can’t remember the exact year, 1982 I think, anyway it was summer and I was about 10 years old. My best friend at the time was a girl called Helen and we often went for picnics at the embankment where the old railway tracks used to be.

On this particular occasion we climbed to the top of the embankment to a grassy area where we often had our picnics. Afterwards we took a walk along the embankment which was more of a wood than anything else.

Suddenly she stopped and I watched the colour drain from her face and she started blubbering about a ghost, “Yeah don’t be stupid” I said and I looked towards where she was looking.

What I saw filled me with such dread, such fear, that I suffered nightmares for years after. Standing in front of us was a humanoid figure around the same height as us legs slightly apart left one in front of the other right arm slightly bent. Its left arm was stretched out pointing at my friend and its forefinger bent towards me.

A perfect white in colour though not glowing and it even had facial features though not distinctive. It had a nose and chin and it was as if its eyes were closed also I noticed it had no hair, no eyelashes even. There were no imperfections on any part of its body.

I didn’t hang around to long I had never ran so fast in my life my friend not to far behind. After this incident she would never talk about what happened until recently.

She told me when she first saw it that it was quite far away but it approached us alarmingly fast passing through any object in its path. When I looked round it stopped. I often now wonder what was it? Would it still have stopped if I hadn’t looked round. The only thing I know is that it was definitely real as Two of us saw it.

Railroad Tracks Ghost Sighting was written by Laura Marshall Copyright 2007 all rights reserved. Used with permission.