Georgia

SITE OF THE UNMARKED GRAVES

(Anonymous)

About 5 years ago I lived in a newly built apartment community in a town in Georgia near the Alabama border. I had lived there approximately 4 months when I noticed something strange. One night I had a few friends over before we headed out for a night on the town. The apartment I lived in was a 1 bedroom apartment with a laundry room off the kitchen. To get to this laundry room you had to walk between the wall and the edge of the breakfast bar. That particular night there were approximately 5 people besides myself in the apartment. My friend Mike and I were talking, with me standing near the wall and him at the edge of the bar. As we were talking I saw what I thought was someone walk by (between him and I) into the laundry room. I did not really think anything of it for the next few minutes until I realized that this person did not come back out. I stopped the conversation I was having and looked around the corner and into the laundry room, but didn't see a soul. While I was doing this, Mike also peered in. I said "I swore I saw someone walk in there a minute ago and I never saw them come out." His response was "Dude, I did too!!!!". I asked the others in the apartment if they had walked back there for something and all said no as they were talking amongst themselves. Nothing more happened while I lived there, though, I admit for the next few weeks I was a bit paranoid.

Normally I would have discounted the whole thing as nothing, because nothing else had happened when I lived there and gradually I forgot about it. Five years later I got married and moved back into the same apartment complex (not the same apartment), and lived in a townhouse roughly 120 yards from the first apartment I stayed in years back. About a month after we moved in, my wife claimed that when she was walking down the stairs one night, she saw a black shadowy figure hovering above the dining room table. When she looked again it was gone. I told her she was probably seeing shadows from the light that hung above the table and discounted it. Over the next few days I remembered what had happened years back and decided to confide this event to her. Needless to say this freaked her out to no end. She refused to go downstairs at night alone. You must remember these apartments/townhouses were only built 5 years prior. I now worked for the city and had access to all sorts of records and became curious as to what was going on "and" if anyone else had ever seen anything. I went to the rental office and told my story, thinking, they would have a good laugh, but the weekend manager didn't act surprised at all! He is a police officer during the week and works in the office to make some extra cash on the weekends. He told me that since he works the night shift on this part of town, he usually drives around here at 4 in the morning and goes to the far end of the property, backs up to a neighborhood and sits for a while filling out reports and what not. One night he was sitting in his car and he saw someone walk past his car and around the corner of one of the townhouse buildings. Since he was a police officer and resident he jumped out of the car and ran around the corner immediately in pursuit of this figure. He saw nothing! The person or thing just disappeared into thin air! Since then, he has not parked down there again and he even offered to pick me up early one morning on a Friday to see if we could see anything. I told him I was going to ask around and see if anything was on this property at one time that might be leading to these bizarre occurrences. After my initial investigating around the office, I was informed that the property used to be an old farm/plantation and that there was indeed an old slave graveyard right near where he parked his car on that one evening. For informational purposes the previous apartment I had lived in was no more than 50 yards from this place!

I never did take him up on the offer to watch for anything abnormal because my wife and I bought a house 6 months after we moved into the townhouse and it has since faded from my memory. Something definitely paranormal is going on out there, but I don't know what. Unfortunately when I moved I lost the chance to ask any other residents if they had seen anything strange. One last interesting fact is that the last townhouse near where the policeman parked has never kept a resident longer than 6 months and the previous tenants only stayed 2 months. I don't know why, but I have my suspicions.

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