Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

In the summer holidays last year, my grandpa and his best friend went up the highest mountain in the place that I live in. They decided since they were so old and couldn’t walk any longer that they would stay the night up on the top of the mountain. With them they took their sleeping bags, some wine, beer and matches.

That night they were sitting around the fire they had made and drinking some of there supplies. My grandpa noticed a tall, negro figure in the bushes. He thought that this figure would like to join them so they went into their tent and asked the figure to follow them.

They had some more to drink and went outside to see if the man was still there, because he hadn’t come and joined them for some company. My grandpa and his best friend saw the tall man smoking a cigar on a rock looking at the view. Grandpa said “come in and join us! We have plenty of food and drink!!!” The man ran off into the bushes and was never seen again.

This man’s name was Black Billy, he was tall and loved by all the locals of where I live. One day he went up the mountain with another local and his dog. One week later the dog came back with scratches and rope burn all over him and the other local claiming that they lost Black Billy and that he probably would come back soon.

Black Billy was said to have been pushed off the mountain and the local was forced off the island. People try to climb up the mountain now to see Black Billy, but they always come back saying that there is no one up there, and that the locals are lying, but Black Billy never shows himself to people who go looking for him. They say he can tell if someone is looking for him, and he never shows himself.

Annie Gourlay told me to submit this.

Written by Bronte Helena Honner Copyright 2007