08.14.07 | deforest nature trail: part 3

we listened to the pollers and decided to head back over to deforest park's nature trail. it was so scary the previous night that bri and lani decided that they weren't gonna join the rest of us this time. so tonight it was me [guro], kim, chris, lorraine, caroline, and julie.

we headed over there kinda late this time. we got there around 9:55pm or so. we came prepared this time around. kim and lorraine went out and bought a few things to help us feel a little safer than we did the night before. yup, weapons! lol. kim bought herself a machete and bought a few flashlights for the rest of us. talk about commitment to the "secret society" (as chris likes to call it). ;) we carried a few canes as well. not so much for the "ghosts" we were hunting. but, let's be realistic here... being in north side long beach we had to protect ourselves from the non-ghostly people out there, ya know what i'm sayin?

so we get there. we huddle up together (well, everyone except for julie because she's too cool for the rest of us) and walk through the super eerie wood post opening nice and slow. we check in the same corner to see if our "friend" wanted to come out again, but nope. so we continued on the very scary, very dark, path. we were all determined to go further into the trail. we got about 20 feet in and lorraine and caroline decided that it was too intense for them, so they decided to head back to the "outside". it was dark, there were lots of trees, lots of trash, lots of tagging, and a lot of other weird things what we encountered... to keep the story short, i'll just list the stuff that happened.

• felt a few cold spots (and remember, right now in socal, it's about 75-80 degrees at night)

• we saw a blue rope hanging from one of the trees. it was right above this "hole" for a lack of better words. it's kinda of this empty embankment. don't know if the rope was there as a suicide attempt or not. it was tied up on this huge tree right above the embankment... weird.

• i [guro] felt something or someone touch my arm. it was a really quick brush-up of a finger or something on right at the joint of my elbow on my left arm.

• kim also felt something or someone touch her hand. she was filming pretty much the whole time. she decided to stop filming, and that's when she felt the touch on her hand.

• lorraine heard children laughing and a woman talking amongst the children's voices. there were absolutely no kids around. lorraine heard this when we first stepped foot into the trail.

• julie heard the children too, but later on. we were deeper into the trail when she heard it.

• we thought we saw a few dark figures in the brush, but with the light from the outside (caroline & lorraine), we figured it might just be our shadows.

• we heard noises in the water (what's left of it - it's mostly filled with trash) of the embankment. as if someone took a few steps. kim described it as, "it's like someone just put one foot into the water or something." we heard it twice, about 30 seconds apart from each other.

• as we were leaving, kim thought she heard a scream.

it was a pretty eventful night, but i think we're done with deforest nature trail now. on to a new excursion at a new place.

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