The Lone Little Grave
Ghost Story
Date: Thu Nov
15 2001
Time: 15:19:04
I live in Fayetteville Arkansas in the woods
and not far from us use
to live an elderly couple. They lived in this old run down shack for a
house with chickens and dogs all over the place. For the man to make a
little money he would let people dump trash onto his once lovely wooded acres
for cash. Somewhere amoung the trash and near the old shack is a nearly
forgotten small grave of a baby. It had no proper headstone, only some local
rocks to mark it's grave. No name, no date of any kind, just the knowledge
of a lone little grave of a baby.
This wasn't
their child, but the lady did look after the grave the best she could, until one
day the man passed away and she was left alone. She moved into town and
the land was cleared of all trash, the old shack was torn down, the acres
divided up and finally sold off. I was up there not long ago to see what
had become of the forgotten little grave. I've noticed that much
excavating had been done to the landscape. I could hardly recognize where
the old shack stood. Many trees were up rooted and bulldozed into large
piles against other trees.
As I recalled,
the little grave was near a large tree, not far from the old shack. There
were a number of possible places the little grave could be located, but all the
excavating had erased any signs of the lone little grave. As I was
standing in the middle of the Arkansas woods thinking about the location of the
little grave, the sun was going down and with the evening shadows came the cry
of a baby. It sent chills right through me because I knew it was the
disembodied voice of this lost babe in the woods. The sound seem to be
coming from everywhere and yet nowhere! After a quiet prayer I left that
place. Those woods are still haunted by the cry of a baby. Deep in
the Arkansas woods a lone little grave of a baby remains lost and
abandoned. It's cries can still be heard echoing through the
hills.
Lilly Goester
roylillyjohn@hotmail.comFayetteville, Arkansas USA