A Child's Ghost Story - The Man that Jumped into the Fire

One year we decided to take a late fall camping trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  We like camping in the fall.  There are no bugs and it's great to sit around the fire enjoying the cool air and the warmth of the fire.  We decided we wanted to stay at the Elkmont campground so we could explore the area and maybe see a ghost that was still hanging out in one of the old houses.  We always wondered if that area was haunted and we figured we would see what we could find.  We selected a camping spot near the back of the camping area just across Jake's Creek from what used to be called Millionaires Row.  We wanted to be close to the buildings so it would be an easy walk in the dark to and from the buildings we were going to check out.  We got there in the middle of the afternoon, set up our campsite, gathered a ton of firewood, and then went to take a look at some of the houses just as it was starting to get dark. 

We walked up and back down the road looking in the different houses taking pictures as we went.  Kind of looks like there is an orb, to center, in this picture.

My wife took a picture of the inside of this house.  The flash went off and when we looked at the picture it appeared that there was a reflection off of something above the fireplace.  We stuck our flashlight in and saw that there wasn't anything that could reflect light up there.  Just wooden beam.  There also isn't any electricity or light fixtures in the house.  Interesting....what did we get a picture of?

 

After we spent about an hour or so looking at the houses and taking pictures we made our way back to our camp site, built us a nice fire, and settled in for the night. 

That is when it started.  Our young son started staring out into the woods and he got scared.  I kept trying to see what he was looking at, but I could never see anything.  He said that kept seeing a dark shadow that looked like a man and that it was hiding behind the trees.   He also said that it would poke its head around the tree it was hiding behind and look at him.  He could see it's eyes staring at him.  He said that we he would look back at it that it would look back at him and then hide behind the tree again.  He also said that he could see it moving from behind one tree to another.  He said it would kind of float from one tree to the next and that it was getting closer and closer each time it moved.  It sounded like it was trying to sneak up on us.  He then said that when I walked away from the fire to get some things out of the car that it came into our camp site, jumped in the fire, and disappeared into the flames.

Was that what we caught in the picture?  Did it follow us back to our campsite to see what we were doing?  Needless to say, our son didn't sleep very well that night.  He was worried that the man would rise out of the fire and come back to get us.