This is a true story. Twenty years have passed since that night.
James Murray had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England with his gun. It was December; the snow was beginning to fall from a heavy grey sky. It was becoming dark and he lost his way, there were no signs of human life.
It became very cold, and night was falling fast. He was tired and hungry. James started to think about his young wife.
He shouted and waited for an answer many times; after a moment a little white circle of light appeared out of the darkness. James found an old man with a lantern. James told to the old man that he was lost and he was trying to go to Dwolding, the old man explained that the town is about twenty miles so James ask to the man if he could let go home with him. The problem was if the master of the old man would give to James shelter and supper. So James followed the light of the lantern in the darkness to a door which was huge and heavy, it looked like the door of a prison. The old man turned a key and quickly James pushed past him into the house.
James Murray had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England with his gun. It was December; the snow was beginning to fall from a heavy grey sky. It was becoming dark and he lost his way, there were no signs of human life.
It became very cold, and night was falling fast. He was tired and hungry. James started to think about his young wife.
He shouted and waited for an answer many times; after a moment a little white circle of light appeared out of the darkness. James found an old man with a lantern. James told to the old man that he was lost and he was trying to go to Dwolding, the old man explained that the town is about twenty miles so James ask to the man if he could let go home with him. The problem was if the master of the old man would give to James shelter and supper. So James followed the light of the lantern in the darkness to a door which was huge and heavy, it looked like the door of a prison. The old man turned a key and quickly James pushed past him into the house.
When James entered, he was in a big hall. The servant gave him a room, a pointed him the master’s room.
He went to the room a he found an old man sitting at a table, he was the master. When James entered the room, the master stared at him in a confusing way; he didn’t know who this man was. James told him al his story and how he got lost. After hearing James’s tale he let him stay for one night.
The servant invited James to sit at the table and he brought him some foot. When he finished his meal it had stopped snowing.
He sprang out of his chair so glad that he decided to go to the village and come back with his wife. At first the servant thought that he was mad, but after all, James insisted to leave the house.
The servant told him that there was a coach that would take him to the village; he gave him the instruction to get the coach stop. James had to hurry up if he wanted to catch the coach, so he left the house very quickly.
accident twenty years.In that accident , the four passengers and the driver died, in that coach, the son of the master was traveling and died too. After that, Jacob said goodbye to James and returned to his master. James started to walk along the road to the signpost, the night was cold, and James stop to rest a little. When he was resting , he saw the lights of a coach, that was strange because Jacob t James walked with Jacob to the road that leads to the coach signpost. Jacob , told to james that that road hasn’t been used for coaches since an old James that the road wasn’t used since that accident twenty years ago.However, James jumped inside the coach. In the coach, there was three people , they all seemed asleep and the air was dump, heavy and dead. James asked a few questions to the passengers, but they didn’t answer. And then, James realized that the three passengers were dead. He tried desesperately to escape through the door and opened it, in that moment, the moon was shining and James saw everything clearly, the signpost along the road and the broken wall at the end of the road. The coach drop in the edge of the road and then into the valley, James only saw darkness.He wake up a very long time later and he saw his wife sitting in his bed. She said to him that he felt and the snow saved him. Then she told james that two farmers found him and took him to the doctor.
James never told her about the coach, but he told it to the doctor. He only said that it has been only a dream because the bang on his head. But james knew it in that moment, twenty years ago he was a passenger in a ghost coach.
