land-owners decided to follow her. She led them to a stream in a wooded area nearby. From a distance, they saw her bend over as if reaching for something. After she had gone, the men went over to investigate. They turned up a rusty gun lying in the stream. The gun was traced back to a man who later admitted having killed his wife. Finally at peace, the apparition was never seen again. Some spirits will remain behind, unable to let go of people and/or places they have an emotional attachment to. This can be the case with pets as well. There have been many such cases. Scotts experience is well wroth mentioning.It began before I was born, after one of my parents' dogs passed away. Strange sounds, things popping up in the weird places, the types of things you might normally expect from a harmless haunting. My parents called some people in the phone book who are supposed to investigate paranormal occurrences. They said there was definitely a spirit in the apartment. Whether these people were for real or not, I don't know. Nevertheless, the occurrences, as I stated before, were harmless, the spirit was mischievous, but not violent. Shortly before I was born, my parents moved into our house, the spirit followed them. After a couple of bizarre dreams, and the fact that the occurrences had started almost immediately after the dog had passed away, my mother believed it was the spirit of her dog. By this time my family had taken to calling it Spook. I was born shortly after, which has no relevance to this whole story other than to show that I was alive during some of these bizarre occurrences and my parents did not make up the whole story. A few years later, my parents moved their business into a two-story office building, and Spook decided he would make this place his part-time home. He was ever-present upstairs. It always sounded like someone was walking around upstairs when no one was up there. Many employees did not care to be left in the off...
