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This story was told by an American named Joe, who in 1972. was a counselor at the Navakwa Children’s Camp in Adams County (Pennsylvania). This camp, operating today, belongs to Lutheran church, whose employees also work in the administration Navakva. In particular, Joe worked in the camp from 1967 to 1973. year.
His story begins with a reference to an old apple orchard, which was about a mile from the Navakva, on a hill. In while hiking in the woods, children and counselors often spent the night in tents on the top of this hill, as it was a picturesque place, and quiet, uninhabited.
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Missing girls
… That evening, the adults sent the children to sleep, while they themselves sat around the fire and talked leisurely. Among the counselors was someone Paul, a seminary student who read Bible passages, incidentally explaining some difficult points. Someone asked if he believes Paul into the afterlife and the existence of ghosts, to which he replied in the affirmative, because, as he said, once he himself saw in seminary premises phantom of the old soldier …
The time was later, and soon the counselors also went to bed. A a few hours later Joe was woken up screaming that out of the tent the girl disappeared. Katie’s ten-year-old sleeping bag was empty. Leaving one counselor with the children, all the others went in search of missing.
They searched for the girl almost until dawn. By radio walked into the camp, to find out if she returned there. However there was no child nowhere, and everyone wondered where he could go at all …
And suddenly, Katie appeared on the side where the apple tree was garden. She was choking with sobs. The legs and arms of the girl were scratched, and two cuts bleeding on the back.
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Counselors urgently called on doctors, and Paul drove the victim to camp. However, before Katie was taken away, Joe heard her spoke of an ugly man snatching her from a sleeping bag and dragged into some abandoned building. The girl managed break out of his hands, and then fell into a ravine and with difficulty got out from there.
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When Joe, among other counselors and children, ended up in the camp, there there were already doctors and policemen. The latter, upon hearing Katie’s story, seem to have completely ignored her. Joe himself considered the story the child is very strange, Paul claimed that behind all this hiding something else. Soon the camp season was over; Joe left Navakva, but remembered what had happened there for a long time. mysterious event …
Shadows of the apple garden pop up from the past
Subsequently, Joe and Paul, who became church pastor, talked regularly, and just recently, Joe received from his another interesting news, shedding light on the riddle more than forty years ago.
Paul received a letter from the daughter of the same Katie, who disappeared at night from his tent. Woman found pastor contact information among the papers of her mother, who died a few months ago. Paper were well hidden so that they could not be found by outsiders. There there was also a piece on which Katie described in detail what happened to her in the apple orchard. Then followed the postscript with asking Pastor Paul because this person “knows the truth. ”
Katie’s letter indicated that a ghost had attacked her at night. some old man and dragged into the basement of a dilapidated building, which stood in the garden. The girl managed to break free a kidnapper, but then a terrible creature attacked her, like a huge wolf. Katie contrived and hit in the face monsters with a stone, after which she rushed to run …
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The note further stated that the girl had repeatedly tried tell your story to people, but no one believed her. Worse however all was that the “spirit of the wolf,” as she called it, continued chase Katie day and night. He could have dreamed of turning a dream a nightmare, but often she saw his shadow in real life …
A woman couldn’t understand why this entity is pursuing her, perhaps the mystical wolf wanted to take revenge on her for being stoned nose, but why on that fateful night a terrible old man chose her?
Neither Joe nor even Priest Paul with his wealth of experience in spiritual sphere, did not know the answer to this question. Yes, and is he on in this white light, the pastor noted in his letter to a friend. However Paul believes that after death, Katie found out why it happened: for that trait for each of us will certainly reveal secrets that tormented us in this life …
Time Stones