Maplewood Cemetery

I am now 18 years old and I feel like at this age I could maybe understand a little more the paranormal. It doesn't frighten me as much as it use to, as I have grown used to events of such type. And I have been looking for answers for a very long time, knowing that sometimes I do things I shouldnt do. Like use the ouija boards and such. And I know its not always safe, but please know that I have respect and never do it just for laughs anymore.

So, this hapenned just last night. Me and my friend had past a long day at a lake in St-Eugene, a small town, just 20 miles from mine. And it's a man made lake and is about 150 feet deep and a lot of things went on in that lake. Aparently bodies still lay at the bottom. A lot of people drown in the lake and all the bodies haven't even been found yet. Although we are not sure this is true, we do know people did die and there's a few cars at the bottom so there's still place for doubt.

So we started talking about dying and one thing led to another, we were talking about the paranormal and felt like doing a seance at night. So I thought of a place where our seance is most likely to work, would be at the Maplewood Cemetery. Its about 45 minutes, by car from where I live. It's on a closed dirt road, so no one goes by there.

We arrived and proceeded. Before going to the gate, I looked around to make sure no one was around. I moved the flashlight around and saw nothing. Just cracked and broken tomb stones from the early 1800's. I started walking toward the entrance when I saw something run passed by the cemetery, but it seemed like it was all black. I told my friend but he said it was my imagination. So I just shrugged it off. The second we opened the gate to enter the cemetery we heard what sounded like coyotes in the woods right next to us. To reassure my friend Victor (the name was changed), I told him it was coyotes and there's nothing to worry about. But right when we entered the cemetery it got much louder and started to sound like people yelling like savages. And soon after the loud shrieks we could hear someone running through the woods. At this point we were pretty scared and just decided we would continue inside the cemetery anyways. We wanted to do our seance in the only crypt there was there.

As soon as I layed my hand on the door to the crypt I heard a very strange sound, that sounded like a hurt animal, it was coming from, in back of a very large tomb stone to my right. I stared at the tomb stone not knowing what to do. I had a feeling what I heard wasn't an animal at all. So I went inside the crypt without saying a word to Victor of what I heard. When I turned around Victor was still standing outside the crypt staring at the same tomb stone I was before. I asked " Are you coming? ". He quickly replied "no way". I asked why he was so scared all of a sudden. And he said he saw someone standing in back of the tomb stone but it wasn't human looking, it was more someone made of black smoke exactly like what I saw running by the cemetery before entering!

I got out of the crypt because the screams from the forest were very close, too close for comfort. But when we were leaving the shrieks in the woods got a little more quiet and proceeded their way deeper in the woods. I have heard coyotes before, and when the shrieks were close they sounded exactly like aboriginals.

Maybe the cemetery is on an old burial ground? I just feel like we weren't supposed to be there.