Fulton Beach Road............Donno

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The old house overlooking the bay had seen better days. The Carlton House was said to be haunted and it looked the part. A friend of mine was renting it and let me stay there while I was in between jobs. It was late at night and I decided to sit in the rickety porch swing mounted under a leaning Oak tree, over-looking the water. I’d been sitting in the swing looking at the old tree wondering how long the screws would hold when I noticed something moving in front of me on the road, just before the water.

The weather beaten road was pot-holed and water rutted. It was on this road that I saw something... Whatever it was appeared to be made up of fire flies, blinking on and off very quickly. I peered into the night, straining to make sense of the coolest optical illusion ever witnessed.

This had the complete outline of a person walking. It was holding a light source, maybe a lantern and it was swinging it back and forth. It gave me goose bumps until it disappeared after covering 45 feet of the road. I decided to keep this treasure to myself. The next night guests were over around 4 am the talk turned to sunrise fishing and getting live bait.

We were sitting in the enclosed patio porch when a friend said, "Hey - look down there; it looks like someone is walking around with a flash light." I looked where he was pointing and recalled the mysterious flashing figure from last night and said… "That looks like what disappeared on me last night!".

As soon as I said that, everybody darted out the screen doors, some going left and some went right to see if it really was a person with a flashlight. It disappeared in front of them the same as it did to me the night before.

Word spreads fast in a small town and some recalled hearing about a lady hit on the road in the 40’s, she had been carrying a lantern and was struck early morning before sunup. I tracked down some relatives of people who used to live in the house and they had this to share. They told me of time that as teens during sleepovers they heard stories of a haunted stretch of beach near the old cemetery (which this area is nearby).

Another friend mentions a time while asleep in a pickup backseat the driver slammed on the brakes causing a 360 stop. He poked his head up and the driver said a lady dressed in white was in the middle of the road, forcing him to slam on the brakes. They looked around but nobody could be found and where this happened was in front of the Carlton house near the water, exactly where we saw the vision.

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