My brother and I were lying awake one cold, rainy April
evening, when we heard the dog bark. We ran out to the
back yard to see what was wrong because she never barks at
anything. Our house backs up to a farmer's field, and when
we got to the fence, we saw a huge flash of bright light!
We both ran like the wind back inside.
We didn't tell any one what had happened, because we knew
no one would ever believe us. Neither of us could sleep a
wink that night after what we had seen. The next night,
we asked if we could sleep in the tent outside to see if
the same thing would happen again.
We waited and waited, and nothing happened. Just when we
were both about to fall asleep, we saw a light outside the
tent. At first, we thought it was our Dad with a
flashlight trying to scare us, so we ran back inside the
house to see if it was him. When we got inside, there was
the flashlight, on top of the refrigerator, where it
always stays, and everyone in the house was asleep.
Since we were too scared to go back to the tent, we just
went upstairs to our rooms to try to go to sleep.
The next day, we walked up to the farmer's house and
knocked on the door. An old woman appeared and said that
one night her husband was awoken by a bright light in the
field, and when he went to see what it was, he never came
back. We asked if we could camp out in our tent in her
field that night, and at first, she said no, but we talked
her into it. We were hoping we could get a better glimpse
of where the light was coming from.
We pitched our tent, and waited . . and waited.
After what seemed to be hours, we could see a faint light
in the distance. We walked toward it, and it was just a
small lantern on the ground. We were too scared to stay
and wait for anything else, so we went back to the tent
and fell asleep.
In the morning, we were awakened by the cows mooing, and
we ran back to where the lantern had been . . and it was
still there! We took it back to the farm house, and the
lady told us it was the same one her husband had taken
with him the night he disappeared.
We never went back to that farmhouse, and never went in
the back yard after dark again.
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