Coal Mine Ghost

From: David Cox
Story type: Ghost

Location: Pulaski Virginia

Source: Form Submission


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This story takes place in the little town I grew up in. I was about 16 or so years old and was seeing a girl about my age. She lived in one of the oldest sections in town, called Valley Road, so named because it lay in the narrow valley between to small mountains. er home sat on the left side ofthe road as you drove to her house , across the road a small creek seperated the road from the foot of the mountain. Some nights we would just set on her front pourch and goof off and make out, sometimes we just sat around talking.
One night she mentioned that there was an old coal mine across the road from her house and on some nights you could see a ghost go from the mine to the creek and back. Well,I thought she was just trying to scare me a little (of corse it didn't).

Several months later, we were setting on the front pourch of her house , it was late, very dark(no street lights in this part of town)and as I remember cool and cloudy. We had only been setting for just a few minutes when she grabed my arm very tightly and told me to look across the road at the mine. I looked and there in the blackness of the mountain side was a soft light gray/white form. At first it just stood there not moving, then slowly and "smoothly"it moved down the mountain side to the creek. It stood motionless for a few seconds and then up the mountain side to the mine. There it just faded away. We both just set for a minuet or so the ran into the house.

After telling her family , her dad just laughed it off, as her brother and mom. But her grand mother who lived with them just said that it had been happening for many years. he told me that the old coal mine wsa a private mine dug by a couple friends bach in the 20's, the coal was used to heat their homes. One day the mine caved in ,traping the two miners. It took a week or so to reach the miners, but they were both dead. It looked as both had survived the cave in , one miner was pinned undef rocks, the other had even tried to dig out. The pinned miner had written on the wall that they had no water, and had marked what he thought were days. Both men had died only a day or so before they were found. The ghost we had seen was the miner going to get water for his friend.

Now I'm not going to go throuh all the stuff like it was head lights form a passing car or something like that, I saw what I saw. From that day on, I've always listened to other people tell about their experiences and I think I know how how they felt.