May 10 2009
Haunted Bridge of Coweta County (part 3)
The scream chilled me to my bones. I raced back around to the front of the house to find Danny flat on his back in the dirt. “What happened” I asked. Danny replied that something had hit him, knocking him off the front porch. “It was a white ghost” Danny breathlessly said. Danny seemed to be fine so I helped him to his feet. We had just walked back onto the dirt road when we heard a load banging sound coming from the house. Fear gave flight to our feet as we ran the rest of the way to the road.
We walked to three houses before we found one with lights on inside. The owner let us use his phone to call Bird’s Dad, Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross asked Danny where we were calling from and told Danny he would be on his way shortly. About ten minutes later Mr. Ross pulled into the driveway. We gratefully climbed inside the truck.
While we were driving down the dirt road Danny told Mr. Ross that an evil ghost had knocked him off the porch of the old abandoned house. Mr. Ross then asked why we had stopped at the house in the first place. When we told him there had been a light in the old house he laughed. He then explained that an old mirror inside the house reflected headlights from the road making it appear that a light was on inside the house. He told us he would slow down when we got close to the house so we could see the light. When we got close to the house he slowed the truck to a crawl. We could indeed see the light as well as a large, white goat happily munching grass in the front yard. “Well there is your light and I believe that is your ghost Danny” Mr. Ross said.
