Stalker / The Ditch Witch

Kristopher, a young man sharing an apartment with his girlfriend, finds himself alone while his partner is away visiting family. The days crawl by as usual with the burdens of work beginning to pile up, and stress settles in. Shadows in the night begin to move and the young man keeps hearing a strange noise following him around the apartment. He becomes paranoid, too afraid to sleep or even remain in the apartment in fear of seeing her, that lone silhouette gazing at him in the night and skittering after him on her spindly limbs. Kristopher swears she is real, not just a stress induced hallucination.

INCLUDING: THE DITCH WITCH.

(A true personal paranormal experience as the author remembers it.)
Over some years of my life, I have had many experiences with strange happenings assumed to be paranormal encounters. Most of these I have gone over in my head, and I have realized that a majority can be explained as a random coincidence or the age-old answer, "it was just the wind."

However, there are still a few that evade the reasonable solutions of our world, exceeding the knowledge of our minds to startle, disturb, and down-right frighten us. Some of us believe the stories of paranormal encounters like this, and some do not, but opinions do not matter when these stories do such a fine job at creeping us out. Especially, those of us who lived the tale. The Ditch Witch is a retelling of one experience as I remember it.