Girl Who Couldn't Get Home

In the 1920s, a young man named John Harper was on his way home to High Point from Raleigh. The weather suddenly became foggy, and he could scarcely see the road ahead of him. The eeriness of two o'clock in the morning with no one on the road gave Harper the creeps. Suddenly, as he neared an underpass near Jamestown, the fog lifted. There, standing by the side of the road, Harper saw a beautiful young woman, waving. She seemed in great distress. Harper stopped and as he opened the car door, he heard her say, "Please won't you help me get home. I'm lost." She gave him an address in High Point and Harper began driving. The girl told Harper in a faint voice that she had been at a dance in another town and needed to get home to her mother. Harper pulled up to the house in High Point and opened the car door. But as suddenly as she had appeared, the girl was gone. Harper went to the house and knocked. An old woman answered the door. He explained how he had found her daughter and had brought her home. The woman began sobbing and explained, "I had a daughter a long time ago. She was killed in a wreck at the underpass near Jamestown. You're not the only person who has tried to bring her home." With that, the old lady closed the door, leaving Harper amazed and bewildered.