The Phantom Carriage

During an innocent game with friends out on the street, Losandro witnessed something that
foreshadowed a potential tragedy. This was not Losandra's first paranormal experience. The first
part of her story is about a ghost appearing in her apartment. It will
be linked in the description of this episode. My name is Edwin. Here's
a true scary story. I was probably like ten, nine or ten when
this happened. My parents had moved us to a larger house, a three
bedroom this time, just because we needed our own space. You know,
we were getting bigger and four girls can't just share like a room. It
sat on the dead end street. We were probably like the fourth house down.
But to come on the street, it had like one of those I
guess a boulevard or a meetian. So it was like you come in and
if you didn't want to go anywhere else, Like a lot of folks in
in that around that area used to kind of like a turnaround. We met
some friends there. My parents would allow us to stay out to like they
would say, you better be your butt in the house before the street light
comes on. This particular day, we were God, there was so many
kids on that street. We were playing kickball, so it started to get
dark, and of course it was my older sister, myself, me,
and then it was my younger sister. So some of the kids had their
parents called them in the house saying, hey, you know it's getting dark,
y'all come up, go ahead and come a men. So they left
to me and my three sisters. My two sisters and then it was probably
two or three other kids, and we were just kind of like, too
dark to play kickball, Let's play tag. As we were playing, you
know, it got to it got dark enough to where we really couldn't see
each other. So that made it fun, like you can't if you can't
see me, you can't tag me. We were playing along and then it
started to get really really dark, and I was like, man, you
know, let's get it all out before we have to go in. We're
just running on the street having a blast. So we hear like horses.
We kind of looked like at the bulevard or the medium, like whatever the
little turnaround is. We're like, man, we can't see anything. We
just kept playing, and as we were playing, it's like they got louder
and louder. Like I was like, man, it's some horses. Like,
so of course we started walking to like the boulevard area, and then
we see this carriage and it was only like two horses. We're like,
man, you know. So it's like the people are like sinning up like
great postures. So we're like, man, let's go pet the horses.
At this point, we may have been about i'm gonna say, about thirty
yards from it. We're like, yeah, it's there, let's go pet
the horses. So they're coming around and we are running, but it's felt
like we were like running as hard as we could to try to catch this
thing. And then once they got probably around i'm gonna say just over halfway.
No, it wasn't even halfway, maybe just a quarter of the way
down, it's like they stopped. We kept running, but it was like
we were running in place like we weren't getting any closer. They just like
they were looking at us. We all just kind of stopped and we were
looking, and then they just kind of moved on. And then we're like,
we ain't never going to catch them, you know. And then so
we ran in the house and right as the last kid closed their door,
it was a high speed car chase, and it evolved maybe three or four
police cars. It was this old, raggedy car and this man was driving
in I mean he like guned it down the middle of the street, and
it was cars like parked on the side. It wasn't like a wide street.
So I'm like, man, I don't even see how he didn't run
into one of those parked cars. But right where we were playing at the
car just just barreled through. And at the end of that street, it
was kind of like a wooded area. A couple months before, they had
chopped down this big tree, so it was a big stump at the end
of that street, and so that car hit that stump and kind of got
stuck. And of course right after he went, like seconds after he flew
down there, with like three or four police cars just followed behind it.
If we were there in the middle of that street, one of us would
have gotten hit and killed, because there would have been no way a child
could have survived a hit like that. I remember my mom just like hugging
all three of us, just like man, whoever or whatever that was,
like saved y'all. We never saw that charriage again. This happened maybe April
or May. But we thought initially, I'm like, man, it couldn't
be a Christmas float. They couldn't be practicing for the Christmas parade because Christmas
was nowhere in sight, and it was warm outside because we all had on
like shorts. And then it was crazy because I remember it being dusk because
we were watching the lightning bugs. But that was I mean, this thing.
Thinking back on it, I'm like, man, was it glowing?
And like sometimes me and my sisters will talk about it, and one of
my oldest sister was like, yeah, I really feel like it was glowing.
The people in the carriage. It was a man and a woman.
He had on a top hat kind of like the one like a Lincoln used
to wear, like the really tall one, and the lady had her hair
kind of like it was like flipped in like a like a bum and she
had like two koally pieces of hair like on either side, and they were
both like dressed to the mines, like he had on like a suit and
she had like a dress that covered her entire neck. And it looked like
they were a couple out of like the eighteen hundreds, like if they were
going to like a special ball. That's how they were dressed. And the
wagon that they were in, I don't even remember it having a cover on
it, but I knew it wasn't real because it didn't look real, you
know, it kind of And I would ask my sisters all the time,
like, man, you know, do y'all really think we saw that?
Or did we make that up? And my older sister was like, there's
no way we could have made that up because we all saw it. We
all three saw it, and plus those other kids down the street. We
all saw it. We don't want to sound like crazy saying, oh we
saw a ghost. You know. My mom had this look on her face
like again like but my dad had looked like once that car like blew like
cloud through the street, it looked like all the blood had rushed from his
face, like he was just like what you know. Days after that,
the kids that were playing in the streets, you know how parents walk by
other parents and one of them mentioned it, and my mom was just like
I was, I was so shocked. And the other kid, the younger
one, her mom was like, I didn't think she was telling the truth.
That's why I wanted to come ask, you know about that and we
they had asked other people on that street if they had saw anything like that,
Like it was an older it was a older man that used to live
like he was across the street from us, but he lived maybe two houses
down, like diagonal, and he said he's never he never seen anything like
that that happened on the street. But then again he said, it was
never that many kids on that street either. My sisters and I, we
just call it the Guardian Angel, you know it. It was a couple
of Guardian angels that was looking after us, because I'm telling you where it
was, like right where we were playing, that car just barreled down the
street and one of us, if not all of us, would have gotten
hit. Somebody was looking out for us. Has a paranormal occurrence ever saved
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