A jogging ghost in Missouri, from the Examiner online…
Offutt: Neighbors avoid road with phantom jogger, mysterious fog
From the Shadows
Jason Offutt teaches journalism at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville.
Maryville, MO — The first members of John’s family who noticed something wrong were the twins.
John and his three sons, the 17-year-old twins and their 12-year-old brother, moved into the house in Washington state with John’s new wife, but not until the twins started running track in high school did any of them notice the darkness in the neighborhood.
“They were putting in practice time running the roads around our house, and they soon discovered that this area has some eccentricities,” John said. “The area of strangeness seems to parallel a road, now called a street, that runs not far from our house. It appears to be a typical ’20s-era farm road that is fairly common in these parts.”
When John’s family moved into the area, they heard stories about that road, stories of a local “peeper, which was creepy, but probably just kids right?” John said.
It wasn’t just kids. Kids wouldn’t go anywhere near that road.
“An area on the road perhaps two short blocks from our home was simply unpleasant,” John said. “Everyone avoided that stretch of road except for car use. Hell, blackberry vines were out in the road, and kids used a detour through a field to bypass the place.”
When the twins took that road on their evening running route, they sensed a phantom jogger ran behind them.
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