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A Ghostly Protector

Hello, I'm an amateur paranormal investigator and I have a few stories I'd like to share that actually got me into ghost hunting.

Where I live,(AuGres) if you talk to anyone who isn't thick-headed about the paranormal, they'll tell you there's something up with this town.  My story took place around 2003, but it's been burned into my mind.

One night, a friend and I were taking a walk down Main Street, AuGres, towards the marina.  We were just leaving our apartment complex, walking on the side of the road.  We were talking about girly things, passing a few teenagers who lived down the road from me.  We ignored them, and kept walking.  After a few minutes, my friend and I turned around, for who knows what reason.  I remember we looked at each other for a moment, and shrugged it off. About 30 seconds after that, we heard footsteps behind us.  We quickly turned around to see an older man, around mid 50s, dressed in old jean overalls and a red plaid shirt.  We walked off the road, and into the neighbor’s yard, trying to make it seem as if we weren't running away from him.

We both stopped about five yards off the side of the road and smiled at him and waved.  He looked at us and just said, "You know, it's a little dangerous out here for young girls." When he said that, my friend and I took off running.  As we were running, I looked back, and he was gone. My friend said he must have went into the woods, but the location we were at, the woods were about 50 yards away from us, and we hadn't been running for five seconds when I looked back.  The man just vanished into thin air.

Well, a few weeks later we were stalked by a man in a white truck who followed us for nearly five miles, trying to call us over.  About six months after the incident, my grandparent's neighbor was arrested and convicted for pedophilia.  When I saw the police arresting the man, I saw the truck, and it was the same one that followed us months before.  I knew this because of a large spotlight it had, and an odd-oblong dent it had on the side. The mysterious older man I've never seen again.  I've told my stories to others, and they tell me he was my guardian angel.

When I moved back here, I heard from a friend that she’d seen a man that matched my description a few months ago and he told her the same thing.  I never told her my story, but nothing has happened to her yet.

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