About two years ago , a friend of mine and I decided we were going to go to some of the cemetaries around our town and see if we could get some pictures of ghosts . We had already been to one of the oldest grave yards and had gotten pictures of orbs and some ectomist . We wanted something more. We wanted apparitions on film and maybe some contact. Everything started out good . We got to the first cemetary right at midnite . We had been there earleir in the day to get accustomed to the surroundings. Nothing happened at the first cemetary so we moved on to the next one . The gate was locked so we had to squeeze through it which was no easy feat since I'm disabled and my friend was just a bit bigger than the opening in the locked gate . When we finally had conquered the locked gate we went to the middle of the cemetary and said a prayer for protection and let the spirits know that we were there to take pictures and maybe even get their voices on tape . Nothing happened as we walked through the grave yard and everything went fine . It wasn't until we left that things began to happen . It was only a minor occurance but still unnerving . We were standing by the gate trying to decide how best to tackle the problem of the lock when all of a sudden , my friend turned white as a sheet and his eyes grew big as saucers . All of a sudden , his hair (which was quite long ) was blown away from his face . He finally composed himself and asked me if I had seen anything . I hadn't . He described to me what happened . As we were standing there debating , he said that he got the feeling of being watched . Then what ever it was watching us suddenly flew towards him and went right up to him and felt as though it hugged him . This was when his hair blew . He described it as feeling like someone running up to him and just throwing their arms around him . As he was telling me about this encounter I was scanning gravestones with my flash light . I was just looking at the different headstones when I shined my light on a certain stone my friend suddenly yelled STOP!!!! He told me to shine the light on that last headstone again which I did . We were both shocked when we realized that we were standing right next to the grave of his granmother that had passed away 4 months before . The cold air had blown from the direction of that headstone . We left that cemetary and forgot all about the debate over the locked gate . I still don't remember getting out of that place , but the next thing I knew we were in the car and leaving that place in a hurry. We went to another cemetary on the other side of town . The gate here wasn't locked so we walked in and did our routine of prayer and letting the spirits know why we were there . From the minute we walked into the cemetary I got the feeling of someone watching us . As we began walking around the feeling that someone was walking with us . At one point we stopped to talk and decide where we were going to go next and as we stood there a very cold arm went around my shoulder as if someone was standing there with us . I told my friend that we were being followed and that who ever it was was standing with us at that very minute . We decided it was time to leave but I thanked the spirit that had walked with us for the guide . We decided to go to one more cemetary before we called it a night . Had we known what going to just one more cemetary would bring we would have gone straight home. We got to the cemetary and began right away taking pictures in the cemetary . Suddenly I got a very bad feeling and told my friend that we needed to leave , NOW!! I couldn't explain the feeling but knew it wasn't good .We got in the car and started leaving when I began feeling something heavy on my shoulders . It was as though someone was sitting on my shoulders and had their hands or legs around my neck . I felt like I was suffocating . My friend was so scared about that time that he nearly went off the road . He was swerving all over the road . I told him as best I could that I thought a spirit had followed us from the cemetary and was in the car with us right then . He began to say a prayer of protection and I told the spirit that it wasn't supposed to be in the car that it belonged in the cemetary and it needed to go back there and stay .I felt some of the pressure relieve but not all of it . I was still feeling that choking feeling so I once again told the spirit that I wanted it to leave the car and go back to the cemetary where it belonged . I told it that it had to go back to it's place of rest and stay there as there was no place for it away from the cemetary. That did the trick . The full weight left my shoulders and I could breath . I thought I knew what I was doing when we went to those cemetaries that night .But found out real fast that I didn't know a thing about ghost hunting . I have had a couple of bad experiences . This was just one small one . It finally took something very serious to make me really give ghost hunting another thought . But that is another story that I'll tell at a later date . For all of those amatuer ghost hunters please don't go and do anything that involves ghost hunting without the proper training . Don't find out the hard way like I did .
