I apologize for the photo quality, but I’m still learning how to edit well. Here’s a barely edited Google Maps view of the area I’m telling you about today, so you can get a visual of where we were when this happened. Most of the buildings are gone now, so I typed in where they were :
(This one is my favorite story of all time!)
Once my high school friends & I were old enough to drive, we discovered a small abandoned military base not too far from home, and spent a crazy amount of time exploring. It was a NIKE missile radio control base that closed in the early 1980’s. Still standing at the time was about 10 buildings, all with different uses.
Like I said, we explored there often. Always respectfully, of course, and always very carefully. There was only one building that we wouldn’t go into (though I did one night, just because I was that curious…and young & dumb), and that was because the entire floor at the entrance had caved in, exposing the support beams.
Nothing strange ever happened there, oddly enough. No unexplainable sounds or sights. Until one night, later in the summer. A few of my guy friends asked me to join them, and I reluctantly agreed. I was enjoying just chilling at home, but they practically begged me to go.
When we got there, we parked in the parking lot of one of the two active apartment buildings in the immediate area and walked down to the recreation center. I’d only been in there once, and I knew there was a very secure looking basketball court, and in the back was a bowling alley you couldn’t really get to because the hallway leading back there was completely overgrown with vines. To get into the basketball court, the entrance was like 3 90 degree turns, so you couldn’t see into the building at all until you were actually in the building, so I insisted my friends be extra careful. The most badass looking of my friends decided to go first, much to his dismay lol, and as soon as he stepped foot into the shadow of the entrance, a loud BOOM echoed through the basketball court. We all quickly decided to turn around & head elsewhere lol. But as we walked to a more familiar building, we began to discuss the sound we heard.
We all agreed that it didn’t sound like something had fallen from the ceiling because we didn’t hear any subsequent debris. It didn’t sound like the bleachers gave out & dropped because we didn’t hear any metal creaking or any other noises. The badass friend said “as crazy as it seems, it literally sounded like some picked a basketball up over their head, slammed it down on the ground, & caught it as soon as it bounced back up”. And it did. That’s exactly what it sounded like.
So, for the sake of safety, we headed to what we called the missile building because it had 3 large metal pads and a control room. What else could it possibly be lol. We got bored quickly though because that was the easiest building to get into, & we’d explored it a million times.. So we decided to see if we could get into the office building, which was backtracking to just past where we’d parked.
To get there, we had to walk around the most massive building, go down a little road to where it teed off, and make a right. As we headed to the “T”, I lit a cigarette. When I looked back up, I saw 2 women walking about 20 feet in front of us. Plain as day, they were walking in the same direction, on a casual stroll, just chatting amongst themselves. But I could see through them. And I couldn’t hear them talking. Being that I was a stoner as a teenager, I assumed I’d just smoked too much & was hallucinating lol, but when I turned to my friends, they were staring in awe at the same sight. We all slowed down & let them get far ahead of us. At the “T”, there was a relatively small building with a streetlight on the corner that cast a shadow to the right of the building. We watched these ladies walk into the shadow of the building and literally disappear. We all stopped for a moment, and began to discuss what just happened.
We all saw it. But what exactly did we see? We tried not to make a big deal out of it and continue on to our destination, assuming they were fellow explorers. But as we turned at the “T” & examined the area we’d seen them, there was no evidence anyone had been there. The grass around the building was about 2 feet high, so if anyone had walked through there, there would’ve been a very noticeable path. It was also very dark inside & behind the building, but there were no flashlights. There was nothing.
Still examining the building as we continued walking, all of a sudden the alarm on the car we came in started going off. It was as though the car alarm was going off, but there was no pattern to it! You know how a normal car alarm alternates flashing the headlights & honking the horn every 2 seconds, for example? It wasn’t like that. It was more like one headlight, brights, long honk, short honk… The owner of the car held his key fob up & said he had no idea what was going on, and that he couldn’t make it stop. So, since I’m sure it was drawing attention to us from whoever lived inside the apartments, I insisted we head home. Literally, as soon as we walked up to the car, it stopped. Without anyone touching it. So, we got in the car & headed home.
On the road just outside the complex, you could see about a mile down. As we drove away, a particular car speeding in our direction caught my eye, & I wondered if it was a cop. With how much weed my friends & I smoked at the time, & being that it was illegal at the time, I got pretty good at spotting cop cars, whether they were speeding toward me or not lol! Sure enough, as it sped past us, we could plainly see that it was a county sheriff. And sure enough, he pulled right into the complex we were just leaving.
This experience has haunted us all ever since. What was going on there? Who was trying to get us out before the cops came? And why was this the only time anything weird ever happened? We’ll never know. But holy hell, was it fun!!
Do you have any true “ghost stories” you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments below, I’d love to hear them!
And if you haven’t checked out my previous ghost stories, here they are :
I have one more to share next week, so stay tuned! And happy spooky holidays!!!
PS – I can’t find any of the pictures I’ve taken of this place, but if you’re interested in seeing someone else’s photos, do check out this person’s Flickr album from 2010
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