The Lonely Lakeforest Ghost

However, tragedy and ghosts do lurk in the quiet history of this ordinary neighborhood. The pool at Lakeforest is a crowded party during the long Alabama summers. During the day, children fill the water. The sounds of splashing and laughter drift up from the pool and linger in the air around it. During the sticky, hot evenings and weekends the adults come out. They sneak in beer and alcohol that is strictly forbidden by the pool rules. The adults don't care. It is all in good fun. It was one such group of adults that begins this tale of ghostly woe.
One Saturday night, a group of friends gathered around the pool, drinking and laughing and trying beat the heat. The night progressed and they decided to go back to the house. They all loaded up in one truck. People sat in the bed of the truck. They knew they were drunk but it was such a short drive they thought they couldn't get into any trouble driving. On the way home, the driver hit a bump. In his tipsy state, he didn't realize what was coming. When he hit the bump, one of the men in the back was thrown from the bed of the truck onto the driveway of a house he was passing. The man died in that driveway while he was waiting for an ambulance.
The homeowners will never forget that night. Finding a dying man in your driveway isn't something you forget. They watched the man draw his last breaths and watched him be driven away. It isn't just the memory that haunts them. It is also the ghost of the man. He lingers in the shadows of their home. He makes odd noises and sometimes they can even catch a glimpse of him out of the corner of their eyes. They aren't sure what he is waiting for. Maybe he just doesn't know where else to go.
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