The Lonely One

Do you believe in ghost? No many these days. Since science is growing more and more everyday, many have a way to bust the fact and sightings of the paranormal. But me? Do I believe in these things? Well I have a story to share. Something that happened to me in my younger years. A story that will make anyone with disbelief of anything to do with the paranormal turn to a different direction of the point of view of the fact’s about ghosts. Then again, It did happen to me only. Maybe the same happened to you. But I doubt that. So let me begin to tell you what I've seen as a young lad.

The Lonely One

When I was young I was one hell of an active child, the kind of child that would cause all kinds of trouble: from kicking things to scaring random people, the sort of mischief that will get you grounded for a week, two if you do it more creative. You see, I used to live in this small house in the middle of nowhere, there were no cities near my house I’ve even thought that I lived on an island, I called the area I was living in; “Forever Island” cause I’ve wanted to do everything on that island for hours and never wanted it to stop. I’m sorry I seem to be talking nonsense, don’t really care about me right? You want to know what the experience I had right?

Well you see on my “island” there was an oddly placed tree stump and it seems to be surrounded by beautiful flowers, it looked like something from one of those fairy tales from Disney, I honestly expected some wild animals to gather around the stump and sing me a crappy tune, but I was disappointed. This stump was not that from from my house, in fact I was able to see my house from the stumps location. I decided to call the stumps place; “The Center”, since I thought at the time that the stump was in the center of the “island” I was on.

Everyday I’ve always went to play outside, even though I had noone to play with it was still fun to explore different parts of the “Island” but the stump was the one location I tend to visit mostly. I even one day made a little fort around the stump since I had a hell of an imagination and I felt like I was battling some evil creature to protect “The Center”. But one day I made a friend, my friends name? Her name was Scarlet and she was only a year younger than me, since we met we’ve explored the “island” together and play some games like hide and seek or tag, but sometimes we even played at the stump many times, we played there some much that it became her favorite place also and now when I she comes to visit me the first place we always head to is the stump.

One night I was sleeping I heard some noises coming from outside, I looked out of my window and saw something white and it was near the stump. I was an active child, causing trouble and acting like the Mischief God child of Loki, but I wasn’t a very smart child, so I sneaked out of the house to see what was it. When I arrived at the stump the white light was very bright and I heard some crying, it sounded like a woman. I said hello to the crying woman but it didn’t respond and it continued to cry, I then told it that everything was going to be alright. I was a very kind child and even a mysterious woman didn’t even stop me from being kind, the light then faded away and I was standing there with my eyes wide open and after that I went back home to bed.

When my Scarlet came back again I took her to the stump and I tried to call out for the woman but I got nothing, Scarlet didn’t believe me when I told her that I saw something strange there she told me not too worry about it and she took me by the hand and we went into the woods to play. We played for hours and hours untill she had to go home before dinner, I do miss her mostly after she leaves but I know that i’ll see her again the next day to spend more hours with her.

During that night I looked outside my window to see if the woman would appear again I’ve even left some food for her from my dinner because I thought she was hungry and about 10 minutes of staring out the window I was about to head to bed when I saw the light appear when I wasn’t looking, I grabbed my flashlight and once again sneaked out of the house and visited the woman, I approached her slowly and this time I was able to get closer to it. She was still crying and once again I asked if she was ok. She stopped crying. I told her that it was ok and she should be afraid of me and then out of nowhere she said to me that she was alone, I told her that she isn't and got even closer to her, I told her that I’ll keep visiting her and also Scarlet and then the woman gave out a small OK and then afterwards it once again left. I headed back home.

The next morning I asked Scarlet if she wanted to have a sleepover with me since I founded out that he woman mostly appears only at night it seems but she couldn’t so once again I had to meet the woman alone without her. During the week I tend to visit the woman a lot and I even had many conversations with her and sometimes she even misses me when I’m not around and she stopped crying. Before the weekend I found out that Scarlet was able to have a sleepover with me and during that night I took her with me to the stump, she didn’t want to go since she didn’t believe me and it was way too late and it was really cold that night also. When we arrived I called out for her… but she didn’t appear, I keep calling for her multiple times but she still wouldn't appear, Scarlet then go mad and was really freezing so I had no choice but to leave and Scarlet slept in my bed with me since she was really cold and my bed was warmer than her sleeping bag.. I was mad at the woman and a bit confused.

The next night I was caught by my mother on my way out the door. I told her that I wanted to see my friend, my mother thought I was talking about Scarlet but I she didn’t believe me when I told her who I was going to see, so I was sent back to my room not to talk to her that night. Two nights later I was able to sneak out again luckily my mother didn’t know that I did this more than the one time she caught me and cause if she did She found out She would have put a lock on my door. The woman once appeared in front of my eyes and she was happy too see me, but i wasn’t. I asked me where was I, I told her about me getting caught and then I asked her why she didn’t appear when I brought Scarlet over, She told me that she was shy that night and trusted me. I sat with her and I asked her name. It took awhile for her to tell me since I thought she was either shy or just forgot, but she paused and looked at me and said:

"My name…?"

"My name is Scarlet."