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tennessee.haunts
tennessee.haunts
From: nie@acpub.duke.edu (Tom Niemiller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Tennessee spirits
Date: 12 Feb 1995 02:59:01 GMT
I have two stories from
the Estill Springs area of Tennessee in Franklin County.
I have never seen any likeness to my personal experience, and
I'm looking for information or other people who have seen similar
happenings or have seen something wierd on the upper end of Tims
Ford Lake or ANY lake.
My personal story =>
I was fishing from the riprap of a bridge that traversed the upper
end of the main part of Tims Ford Lake in the summer. After the
sun had gone down for 20 or 30 minutes and the lake was like glass,
my brother, dad, and I heard a strange, whirring wind coming from behind us.
Shortly thereafter, the wind seemed to be coming from all around, and
then the water at the shore started to ripple. Up until then the only
movement in the water was the plunk of our lures. The "wind" was
traveling in an absolutely straight line, perpendicularly away from the
shore, and it was pushing or affecting the water somehow through its
course down the lake. It started traveling at a walking speed, leaving
behind a V-shaped wake as if a toy boat were in the water but you could
not see the boat. Then it changed pitch audibly and instantly
went to a running speed down the lake in a straight line. There were
two more similar speed increases to what I would estimate as increases
to 60 and 120 mile per hour. After traveling at this final unnatural
top speed, the wind made a 90 degree left turn, traversed the middle third of
the lake, then made a 90 degree right turn and continued to the horizion.
We decided the fish had probably been scared away after a couple more
casts.
This was honestly witnessed to me and two other people, and I can't explain
it. This was NOT a whirlwind, the lake was like glass and there was
absolutely no wind. Whirlwinds do not travel in absolutely straight lines
and then make 90 degree turns. I think this thing was acually checking
us out. It could have appearred anywhere along the .10 mile stretch of
bridge but it appeared in the middle of us, and it speed up after
passing by us.
Please help. I have also talked to friends of mine, who with other
witnesses, saw stange things within the same county. One UFO and this
story :
Another person saw a ghost run across a field near this
area (in the same county).
They were bailing hay by car headlights when a white figure ran
from one side of the field out of the woods and then all the sudden went
turbo and shot into the woods on the other side of the field.
Perhaps these spirits are related.
If you have positive genuine insight into this please contact me -
Tom Niemiller at nie@acpub.duke.edu
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