I was 25 years old and dating the woman who is now my wife. My family was using the Dunlow Community Center for our family Christmas party.
Jenna and I decided to take a walk down the old railroad bed so we could have a little time alone. Since it gets dark early that time of year, we walked as far as we thought we safely could before the darkness really started creeping in.
We turned around and started heading back. As we approached an old, boarded-up white farmhouse, we saw a young woman walking with her head down.
She was wearing a tattered white dress, which seemed strange for December, along with a pair of black boots. Her brown, stringy hair hung down around her face, and her arms were folded across her chest.
“Hello there,” I said.
She stopped, but she never looked up. If I had to guess, I would say she looked like a teenager.
“Do you live around here? You shouldn’t be out without a coat,” Jenna said.
The girl started walking again. She took about five steps, stopped, and slowly raised her head.
She had no face.
Jenna screamed, and then the girl disappeared. Just like that, she was gone.
I grabbed Jenna’s hand, and we took off running back toward the community center. Of course, when we told everyone what had happened, no one believed us.
I don’t live in Dunlow, so I don’t really know the story behind the ghost or whether anyone else has reported seeing her. I searched online afterward, but the only information I could find about hauntings in the area involved Cabwaylingo State Forest.
I may not know who or what we saw that evening, but I do know what Jenna and I witnessed.
And it scared us badly enough that I have never forgotten it.
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