One Guest I Never Expect
I'm normally not one to be frightened by ghost stories or by ghost experiences. Spirits have never really spooked me that much, not even as a child. But there was one spirit, in particular, I encountered as a child that I would never forget, even though it was gone from my closest memories. Many things frightened me as a child, but none frightened me more than a spirit that I encountered one fateful day at a local cemetery in my hometown. One of my more distant relatives was being buried in a cemetery one Fall evening, and much of my extended family was at the funeral. Many of us were in mourning, but I was in fear of a figure I witnessed hiding just beyond the direct line of sight. I was sitting towards the back with my family when I saw it, a large humanoid shadow figure with long extending arms, a blank facial expression, and piercing white eyes. I saw the figure try to reach for my younger cousin's cradle, reaching over, again and again, just t