"True" Ghost Story

by Blong
(Menasha, WI)

This is one of my friend’s cousins. While he and his friend were drive back from Oshkosh on Route 441, they saw a girl ahead, walking with her suitcase heading in the same direction.

They stop and ask the girl if she would like them to give her a ride. She agreed and rode with them. They ask the girl what her name is and why she was out walking in the road at night. She told them her name, and told them she was heading back home from college when there was an accident. That’s why she was walking at night.

They ask where she was going and if they could drop her off there. She told them that her family was going to pick her up near a gas station near the exit of the highway to Appleton. The two boys told her they are also from Appleton. They ask whose family she is, and she told them her parents name and family.

When they arrive at the gas station, they ask if they all could exchange phone numbers so they could contact each other sometimes to talk and hangout. They all exchanged phone numbers. Then they all departed. Later that night when the boys got home, they try calling her to see if she got home safely.

When her mother picks up the phone, they ask if this is the girl's house. The mother answers yes. They ask if they can talk with her daughter. The mother was confused, and asks the boy, “What are you talking about? She died a year ago!” …

The boy got confused and explained what happened on how they met. The mother told them that’s where she died in a car crash.