I believe we all have souls, but I tend to not be a superstitious person or someone who believes in the supernatural. I have to say though that tonight I am feeling a little creeped out. I live in a small town in America; Sunderland, Massachusetts to be precise. There are tons of woods near my home. At night, sometimes you can hear the eerie sounds of coy dogs howling in the distance. This can be particularly spooky to hear around Halloween. Anyhow, tonight on my way home, everything seemed so dark and quiet out and it reminded me of something that took place two years ago.

There really isn't much to tell about it actually. I was just visiting Josh at his place when he lived in Leverette, Massachusetts, which is the next town over and is even smaller and more wooded than Sunderland is. Josh's roommates Alan and Dan hadn't arrived back from seeing a movie yet. Josh and I were watching TV and Josh decided to get up and go outside to smoke a cigarette. I stayed indoors. While he was out there, I heard some kind of eerie animal noise. Perhaps it was a howl. I don't know, but I also heard Josh yell "holy shit" from the porch so I went outside to see what was going on. He said that he had seen two red glowing eyes and a dark figure in the shape of a man run across the top of one of the barns at the stable next door. He also said that once it reached the other end of the barn, that he saw it jump off and then disappear. At first, I thought he was full of shit but to be honest, everything around the stable was eerily quiet that night. The horses were even quieter than all hell. Usually you can hear them whiny, walk around their pastures, etc., but not that night.

Eventually, Alan and Dan arrived back from the movie and Josh told them what he had encountered. Alan claimed that he had seen similar things while walking back from Bert's house in the dark on a number of nights. There is a dirt road that leads from the stable to Bert's place. It winds its way through thick woods. To be honest with you, regardless of whether anything supernatural exists out there, I wouldn't want to walk that road alone at night just purely because I wouldn't want to be attacked by any kind of animal that might be lurking in those woods. What Alan described though sounded more like what we call a will-o-wisp in American English. A will-o-wisp is generally speaking an unexplained ball of light which floats around through an area. What Josh described sounded more like a shadow walker or perhaps even a shape shifter from what I can gather on the Internet.

The stable is located on hills which used to be inhabited by Native Americans so the whole area is filled with the history of both Native Americans and American colonists. Bert claims that the spirit of a Native American roams the woods and the hills nearby and that she has been out horseback riding at night and has seen balls of light in meadows tucked away in the woods. I don't know if I believe any of this but if what she says is true, then perhaps she has seen will-o-wisps too and perhaps what Josh thought he saw was the spirit of this supposed Native American that roams the woods.

Anyhow, the main point of my discussion is to see whether you believe in the supernatural and whether you have ever encountered anything supernatural, and to also learn what mythological beings exist in your culture.