A Child's Ghost Story - The Lady in Black

When camping the talk around the campfire always seems to turn to ghosts or other scary things.  It is always great to go around the fire and have each person recount a ghost story or talk about something that scared them when they were a child.  It's really fun when the young folks are around and they want to tell their story.  From time to time, you hear kids say that they have seen things and you believe them because of how genuine their story is.  I personally think that kids see the world differently than we do and it is great to hear them talk about what they have seen without asking leading questions or putting ideas in their heads about what it was that they saw.   So far I have head three really good stories from kids about seeing ghosts or things that they didn't quite understand.  Here is one of them.

The first is the story of the Lady in Black.  One evening, we were sitting around the fire next to the creek and some of the folks had brought their kids and there was this wonderful 5 year old little boy that started talking about the lady in dressed in black that had looked through the back door of his house one day.  This kind of startled his parents.  They had never heard him talk about her before.  It also kind of concerned them so they asked him to describe her and what she did.

According to the little boy, when he saw her, it was starting to get dark, but there was still plenty of light and you could still see really well into the back yard.  He said he was in the family room alone watching his videos.  His Mommy was upstairs doing some house work and that his daddy was gone.  He said that a lady in a long black dress came down through the back yard.  He said her face was gray and that she didn't have any eyes.  He also said that she didn't have any feet.  It was like she floated.  He said that she came onto their back porch and came up to the window like she was looking into the house.  He said that she stayed there for a couple of minutes, turned, and then went back up through the backyard and disappeared into the woods.  He said he wasn't scared when he saw her and that he just watched her as she came out of the woods, looked in the house, and went back into the woods.

According to the little boy's parents, the back door in question is a sliding glass door without a screen and the curtain is kept tied away from the glass so they can see into the backyard. The backyard is fenced and backs up to a small, but thickly, wooded area.  They stated that the "Lady in Black" would of had come through some thick woods, over a lot of downed trees, and jump or climb a 4 foot fence to get into and out of the yard.  It would be hard to imagine that someone would do that in a long black dress just to look into a house.  They also say that he still talks about the Lady in Black and that he always describes her the same and tells the same story of her looking in the window.  He also says that he hasn't seen her again.

Next is the "Man that Jumped into the Fire".