The Murder
My family and I used to live on top of huge hill, and we lived in a huge house surrounded by woods, we had a pool, and a huge hill where I use to go sledding down in the winter. I have been around woods all my life and some of them felt weird and creepy even when I lived at my old house, but here at my old house it was different I got the creeps and goosebumps when I walked in the woods especially alone, when I went in there with my mom it was totally different, when we first moved into our house everything was normal and not weird one day it all changed. Anyway, it was not long after I graduated high school I was outside playing with my dog and in the woods down in our valley I heard a horrific, blood-curdling, scream, it was so loud it echoed throughout our valley and woods, I immediately got the chills and goosebumps, my first thought than ran through my head is that some poor girl or woman got murdered, The scream only lasted a couple minutes, it like a girl screaming and then her throat was slashed because shortly after the scream it sounded like it got cut off. Normally I would have told my mother what happened, but she never believed me when I told her anything, me being curious I wanted to follow my feeling that I had in my gut, I love to explore and figure out mysteries it just fascinated me, so I went walking through the woods and walked a huge logging trail that led into our valley. Mind you I'm all by myself no neighbors around there was no one. I keep walking keeping my eyes out and listening to what was around me I wanted to figure out what happened, first I see when I reach the valley floor is huge cracks in the ground and me being a visionary and having a sixth sense, I put my hands over the cracks and it felt burning hot almost to the point it burnt my hands and I felt weird, like I nauseous, and I had an instant headache, and I was dizzy but I pushed on I had known. I kept walking the trail that led past a little stream where there was grape vines I would swing on sometimes the further I walked the more feeling I was being watched grew, I kept myself focused and pushed on, I felt weirder as I kept moving through the woods, I moved a little further where it was heavily wooded and I saw something like a body but just lying there slumped against a tree, at this point was I terrified I made myself move and I got closer to the body and I saw her there she was the poor pretty thing, she was in her twenties her throat was slashed. I jump back and gasp holding my mouth shut so I don't scream, I didn't want whoever murdered this poor girl to murder me next. I feel eyes on me yet again I scan the woods around me and I spotted eyes watching me from a distance, I began to run, I hear a twigs snap under foot, I run down the trail past the stream, past the huge cracks and back up the logging trail I ran the whole looking behind me there was a man wearing a truckers cap chasing me, I kept running and didn't stop until I was safe the house, I told my mom what happened but she didn't believe me, she thought I was lying and I imagined the whole thing. Luckily, my mom's friend was visiting with her daughter and she asked me what happened, so I told her, and she was the only one who believed me. About one week later there was a news report about some poor girl that got murdered in the woods the murderer had killed himself. I about fainted and at that moment I thought to myself it could've me or my family. After that day, my mother finally believed me, and I never went into the woods alone again.