DarkWriter
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Well...OK... There is a cemetary in Chicago and no, I am not going to tell you which one. Let us just say that it is one of the older ones and has a great many standing mausoleums. There is a folk tale, an urban myth if you will, that says that one of these is haunted by a frightening spector that has been seen and has even attacked people! I think you know where this is going... Night falls, the place is all locked up and there I am with my camera and journal, climbing the fence and making my way through the graves to the haunted mausoleum. I had asked several friends to go with me but miraculously they all had something else to do that night. The most creative excuse was, "I have to polish my collar spikes or my Mistress will beat me!" I had to walk away from that one. After all, isn't that why he paid her in the first place? So what do I do when my friends bail on me? I go anyway. Well, I find the tomb alright and set up right opposite the entrance and wait. I cannot have a light because that would attract attention so I sit in the dark and wonder if I am mad or simply too inquisative for my own good. After a couple of hours of this I stand and stretch my legs, deciding that I am too inquisative and wishing it was madness. Making sure there is no security around--there isn't--I take a stroll over to the tomb. The next thing I know, I am not alone, something is very close. I turn and see something with yellowish-green eyes. It hits me, tears my shirt, leaves scratches on my chest and stomach and vanishes again! I recover from the attack, go get my camera and then go looking for the damned thing! I never found it but I always had the sense that it was close. After another hour, I gave it up and went home to take care of the wounds. I wasn't bothered so much by the scratches, it was trying to explain to an ER doctor what had given them to me that made me nervous. Happily the wounds were superficial enough that I could care for them myself. Damn! That was a $75 shirt!
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