From: Terri Leigh Moore
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999
Hello there...
I have been a log-time lurker here and have often thought about posting, but was kinda leary. However, everyone seems so friendly here, so... I just thought I'd share a story that happened to my mother...
This happened when she was about 10 or 11. At the time, they were living out at a place called Devil's Lake (it has since been renamed Good Spirit Lake). Every now and then, my grandma would send my mom to the store to pick up some things. The store was about a half hour walk away. One morning, my mother was walking to the store when she passed a farm. There was a dog and a bunch of chickens and such. There was a little girl playing in the front yard about my mom's age and they started talking and my mom decided to stay and play with her dfor a while.
Well, lunch time rolled around and the little girl's parents invited my mom to stay for lunch. My mom totally remembers the lunch because she came from a poor family and the meal was so extravagant for her (though I can't remember what it was). Plus, the ffamily was so friendly and she was just having the best time.
After lunch, she played for a bit more, but realized it was getting late and that she'd better get to the store and get home. She ran the rest of the way to the store and ran back in hopes of playing with the little girl a bit longer before she had to get home.
Well, she gets back to the farm yard and there is nothing there. Not even a chicken feather. The house, which had been this beautiful old house, now looked like it was falling apart and was all burnt. She didn't really think anything of it and continued home.
When she got home later that night, she got the hugest lecture cuz she'd been gone so long and everyone had been worried about her. She explained that she had been at thi shouse, but now no one lived there anymore. My grandma yelled at her more because she thought she was lying. She told my mother that no one had lived in that house for over 20 years since a family had died in a huge fire there.
That's the story. My mom never saw the little girl or her family again... Stuff like this happens in my family all the time. It's kinda creepy. Just thought I'd share...
Terri
