re: Anybody Got any Good Ghost Stories?

No pics, but here is one now that I have time to write it.

When I was a kid, we lived in the house that my Dad grew up in. It was in a small town (still is) and the house backed up against a pretty good expanse of woods. Hardwoods, mainly. I was maybe 10 at the time and was going "hunting" with my pellet gun back behind the house. I can remember it as it were yesterday. The area was fairly open and had a lot of mature hardwoods in it. My Dad used to tell me stories of how he and his Dad would always go squirrel hunting in the same woods and how they'd sit against on the ground with their back against a tree.

So, I was walking when I saw what appeared to be someone sitting against a tree with his back to me. I stopped because, quite frankly, I didn't know what to do and was kind of scared. I wasn't no more than 20 or maybe 30 yards from "him." You have to remember, with the woods being hardwoods, it was pretty open in there. So stopped long enough to get a good look, and I can remember it to this day - he was wearing old jeans-material overalls and a flannel long-sleeve shirt, and had an old double-barreled shotgun on his lap. Never saw his face. And he was sitting in what appeared to be a sunbeam.

Well, I turned and started walking out of the woods as quietly as I could to go tell Dad, but when I turned to look again, he was gone. Not a sound...just as if he vanished in thin air.

Years later, when I was in my early 30s, I was looking through an old photo album with Dad when we saw a picture of my Grandfather - who was wearing the same coveralls and flannel shirt...and holding the same shotgun he had just gotten for Christmas. The exact same clothes.

The other story was when I was metal detecting with Dad. That one still raises the hair on my neck.