Originally Posted by Oldtimr

Mickey, I pretty much know how those crunching leave and nothing in sight made you feel. Several years Ago I was in SC at Cypress Creek Plantation to hunt hogs. The guides would drop us off at a ladder stan or raised wooden stand twice a day, once in the morning, then pick us up to go back to the lodge for lunch, then again in the afternoon for the evening hunt and picked p well after dark. I wanted to take a hog with my handgun so they took me back a dirt and grass lane for about 2 miles through pine and oak woods to a very wet area with a nice comfortable raised wooden stand with a roof. The stand was about 20 yards from a huge wallow and a feeder. I saw turkey and coyote, I heard a hog but didn't see any. At dusk I was sitting there listening to tree frogs and night birds and such when I heard what sounded like a woman's voice going OOOOOoooooo, OOOOOooo and coming closer to me. Now there was nothing for miles in either direction and the noise was coming from a very swampy area that had cotton mouths and gators and they tell you to stay in the stand if you kill a hog till they pick you up. This noise kept up coming closer and closer, then just at dark, probably 20 minutes, then it started geting farther and farther away until I could not hear it any more. It was now pitch black with no moon and every hair on my body was standing straight up. About a half hour later I heard the truck coming up the lane to pick me up. I was never so glad to see another human being. While driving back to the lodge I was reluctant to tell the other hunters and the guides what I just heard, I was the last client to be picked up and the truck was full. I finally told them what I heard. The guides didn't seem too surprised, in fact they were kind of amused. They told me that it was the ghost of a woman who died while her husband was fighting in the Civil war and she is burried in an overgrown family grave on the other side of the swamp and every so ofter people hear her wandering about, calling, trying to find her husband, they talked about it at dinner and they said they had several clients who had heard it and a few guides as well. Now, I don't believe in ghosts wandering around but I do know what the heck I heard but I have to admit it was a bit scarey and I was real glad I had two firearms with me. I have heard wildlife making all kinds of strange noises, raccoons foxes, birds and even deer but nothing like this.