A Ghost Rabbit ?

[Vila]

Here's an old ghost story from Fairmont, West Virginia. The person who provided this story said that this happened to her father.

On a hot night in July, 1929, my father had started home at about twelve o'clock after finishing work at the 93 mine in Fairmont. He was extremely tired that night because he had worked an eleven-hour shift. Suddenly, as he started up a path, he saw something in front of him. It was white and stood about two feet from the ground. It had an extremely big head for its body and a fat, bushy tail. It jumped on my father several times.

My father had his lunch pail in his hands and started swinging it and kicking with his feet at the creature, but he said it was just like hitting at the air. The whole thing was strange, because the creature made no noise and its body seemed to have no substance. Still the thing kept jumping up at him, and my father kept trying to fight it, but near a cemetery the creature just disappeared. When my father reached the house, he looked at his arms and legs, but there was no sign of a scratch on them or on his body. He said he shook that whole night and just couldn't sleep, although he was very tired.

After that night, he refused to go home that way again. He went another way that took twice as much time. But, even today, what it was that attacked him that night still remains a mystery to him.

[batcave]

Creepy

[kellyd]

That is creepy. On a side note, my dad went to college in Fairmont.

This actually reminds me of something that happened about me about 10 years ago. I had just moved into my first apartment. It was on the first floor of an old house. One of my friends was in town and he was going to come by to see my new place, so I was going to try to straighten things up a little bit. I had just hung up the phone with him when I heard the sound of something scampering out of my bedroom, like a dog's claws on a hardwood floor. I turned and saw something about a foot tall and a foot and a half long covered in bushy black fur run out of my room, past me and into the back bedroom. It scared the crap out of me, and I ran up behind it and shut the door to block it in. I didn't know what it was. It didn't look like a dog, and the fur was a little long for a woodland critter. I thought maybe it was some weird mutant possum thing that had ended up downtown and somehow got into my apartment. Anyway, I got a broom and I was going to try to steer it back out into the front room so I could let it out. I opened up the door to the room where I had trapped it, but there was nothing inside. I searched the whole apartment, in the closets and cabinets, and I couldn't find the critter, or a hole anywhere that it could have gotten into the apartment through and the front door and all the windows were shut. I also realized I didn't hear after I closed it in that bedroom, which was weird considering how much noise it's little claws made on the floor. I have no idea what it was, where it came from or where it went, but I was glad I didn't end up having to call animal control!

[onekatietwo]

Those are both really cool, creepy stories.