Strange object in woods

[paul63]

When I was about 14-15y/o, I was rabbit hunting with my Dad, uncle & 1st cousin in the Chicot Hills of central La. Today this area has a large Boy Scout Camp & alot of homes, but 30 years ago it was all forest. We had walked a couple of miles following the beagles, but really not hunting seriously. Eventually we came into a small clearing (maybe 1/2 acre). In the clearing saw 2 things, a newly blown down tree & a small brick pier (like something under a house or porch). It was about 12" square, 18-20" tall & covered with a green moss that grows everywhere in La. Dad & my uncle said this clearing was probably an old homeplace. Dad, my cousin & myself sat on the tree & my uncle sat on the pier. Dad & my uncle smoked a couple cigarettes & my uncle was flipping his pocket knife & sticking it in the ground. We sat & talked about 20 minutes, then started walking in direction of the dogs. We'd gone about 100yds & my uncle realized he'd forgotten his knife, so we walked back to the clearing to get it. When we entered the clearing we found the tree, cigarette butts & the knife stuck in the ground, but the brick pier wasn't there. There wasn't even an imprint in the ground where it had been, it was like it was never there. We could see where uncle's boots mashed down the grass. No one was able to explain to this day just what it was that we saw & my uncle sat on. Dad & I tried to find the clearing a couple more times after that, but never could. My dad & uncle are gone now, but my cousin & I still talk about it every now & then.

[Skunk]

That's weird paul63. That would have given me the creeps.

[paul63]

This area had always been known as strange place. There are old cemeteries dating back to the late 1700 & early 1800's. During the Civil War it was a hiding place for Jayhawkers & deserters from both sides. I've heard stories about buried gold in those hills all my life. Up until I left for the Navy in 1980, people would dig around looking for it. Today those strange hill & woods have given way to residental developement and lost their mystery. Although they may have not lost it completely. I was a paramedic working from time to time in that area & sometimes worked with another medic who live in this area. I told him the story I posted here & was expecting him to laugh, but he had a story of his own. When he bought the land to build his house, the realtor had him sign a document stating that he was aware the land & surrounding area had the reputation of being haunted & releasing the realty company of any liability. He said he's never had anything strange happen to him, but there's a house down his road that has been bought & sold 4 times in 6 years because no one will stay in it longer than few months.

[petemi]

My sister's house, about 100 plus years old, has a resident ghost, and I have met him personally.  I've had two other experiences with ghosts who died in shipwrecks.  So I find your story very believable and interesting.

Pete

[paul63]

Pete, here's my story about a haunted house. About 6yrs ago I rented this 2 story house that was built in 1902. After a few weeks there I became to notice that when it was quiet in the house I could here something like a very soft whispering. I would hear it in different rooms in the house & to me it sounded like people whispering quietly. I was talking to the owner 1 day & told him about it. He said he'd heard it too, while working in the house. He then asked me if I'd found the "secret room" in the attic. When i said no, he took me into the attic to show me. Now I'm 6'3'' & could stand upright in the attic. Where the front porch connected to the house it was a solid wall in the attic. The owner went over to the wall, slip a board to the side & pulled a latch. A section of wall swung open, revealing a "secret room" above the porch. he called it a Contraband Room. During Prohabition the owner & his brother sold moonshine out of the house, & stored it in the "secret room" above the porch. According to legend a lot of "transactions" took place in the house including prostitution. I lived there for 2 yrs & never had bad feeling about it, I ever got to where I'd talk to the "ghost" like they were alive.

[Travis Morgan]

When you lived there, did you answer the phone, "Whorehouse"? My aunt never thought that was funny when I answered her phone like that; too close to the truth, I guess!