Scary Story Entry - Ghost in the woods

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This is a true experience:
 
Several years ago I went for a walk in the month of January, at 1: 30 pm. I was dressed in grey jogging shorts, white T - shirt, and tennis shoes. Here in Houston, Texas, it was a perfect, perfect sky blue day with the temp at 75 degrees. I walked to the nearby Memorial Park in my neighborhood. There is a section of the park, called the Picnic Loop Area. This is where my experience took place. I walked to the picnic area and was walking across the grounds when I came to a large empty, parking lot. I proceeded to walk across the lot, to get to the other side of the grounds, when my paranormal event began. This thing, this dead thing, came out of the woods (the lot was surrounded by woods with trails that lead to the bayou).  When I say a dead thing, I refer to a disembodied voice that called out to me for help. It's exact words are, " Help me!! Help me!! I'm here!! I'm here!

The first time, it called out to me, I didn't pay it any attention, and kept walking across the lot. The second time, it called out, I stopped walking and turned, in the direction of this voice and stared. There was nothing there. It called out a third time, and started moving towards me, in the woods. Now, it was the middle of winter, and all of the foliage was gone from the trees, bushes, and shrubbery that made up these woods. I could see clearly into these woods at least a hundred feet into them. The voice called out too me again, Help me!!! Help me!!! I'm here!! I'm here!! Well, my first thought was this is a prank by some teenager punks. But their were no teenagers around. I was the only one in the area. A couple of bicyclists were around riding the loop but not paying any attention too me or my paranormal situation. I stood in that parking lot for twenty minutes in a incredible state of disbelief, shock, and dumbfounded. I simply could not believe this was occurring to me but it was happening.

That voice, was so incredible.  It was dead!! It had no sexual gender too it.  I thought for awhile it was a man disguising his voice as that as a woman. But listening over and over to that voice, nobody human spoke like that. This voice, was a haunting, eerie, cry!!! It was slightly sinister, but I think it was so sinister because the originator of that voice was dead!! That voice was a dead voice, nobody human could have possible spoken like that voice was speaking!! All the voice said, was Help me!! Help me!!! I'm here!! I'm here!!  The voice spoke in such a haunting, wailing cry, I will never forget that voice as long as I live!!

There was a trail in the woods, that I went to walk on,  and my gut instinct screamed at me, not to dare walk into those woods. By this time, the voice had moved with in twenty feet of me.  I was standing in the parking lot, and it was in the woods surrounding the parking lot. I knew it had a boundary and  could not leave those woods. So, I felt relatively safe, in the parking lot. So instead of walking into those woods, I spoke too it from the lot.

I said, Where, where are you? And the voice became excited when I responded to it. It said, very loudly too me, I'm here!!! I'm here!!!  I still had no visual on a person whom could be doing this too me. My mind could not accept the fact that this was a paranormal event happening at the time.

Well, I didn't know what to think at this point.  The trail in front of me, divided the woods to the left and the right. This voice was animating from the right of the trail. Then, I got a clue, the dawning realization of trepidation took hold of me. I recalled hearing a similar voice once, somewhere before. Then, I remembered where. On a old I Love Lucy episode, Lucy performed as a ghost at a seance, and performed a ghost voice. The ghost voice she performed was uncannily similar to the voice calling to me from the woods. But my voice was deader than her voice. 

When I finally realized after twenty minutes of this live haunting, that I was facing a ghost, I really became frightened and did not know what too do. There was no one around to call for help too.  I slowly walked up too the boundary of the parking lot that met the woods. Following that voice. Then, as if it read my mind, it moved from the right of the woods to the left, where I was standing at. The voice continued to wail, Help me!!! I'm here!!! This was the only words manifested by the invisible voice.

Then, as I stood next to the boundary that the parking lot met at the base of the woods, the voice said, " I'm over here"!!!   Right in front of my face!!!

I screamed, and bolted from the lot. I called the police on a pay phone and of course, they found nothing.  Later on, I found out, that a woman had hung herself from a tree, in those very woods when a cop walked up on her hanging corpse!!!
 
This is a true story, one that I have shared with friends and coworkers and family. Some laugh and mock me, others shake their heads. But in broad daylight, on a gorgeous, perfect sky blue afternoon, a dead thing approached me in a public parking lot, and wailed for my help!!! You be the judge. Ghost, demon, ghoul, I'm not labeling the truth.

I really could not verbalize too you, the sound of that voice. The more it spoke, the more you wanted to hear it speak. IT WAS A DEAD VOICE.  I have tried to put this haunting experience into words. The interaction between myself and a ghost.  The entity was crafty, powerful, and it knew how to play me. I never returned to the scene of my haunting to this day. But, I will forever remember my ghostly experience standing in the parking lot for twenty minutes hearing cries for help from the dead.