The soilder

He first appeared when the rifle arrived it was an old civil war rifle the rumor was that the original owner died at war and that the gun was dug up in some guys back yard, but right now I don't know if it was a blessing or a curse.

After it came every night the cat would growl and hiss down the hall way, and would lung at air it would watch things we could not see, we thought it was just being weird and we had nothing to worry about, Boy were we wrong.

I woke up in the middle of the night to what sounded like a scream so I got out of bed and checked on my family, nobody was awake, the house was oddly silent, usually the cat would be hissing by now but when I walked into the living room I knew something was up, the cat was standing there not making a sound.... Sitting....waiting. Then I heard the stairs from the basement creek and the sound of boots, old civil war boots hitting the wooden steps as who ever it was coming up the stairs then the door opened with a creek that filled the house and a shadow stood in the door way it was tall and wore what looked like a long coat, but what scared me the most was the red eyes, it looked right at me and screamed then vanished into thin air, leaving nothing but a lingering memory of it ever being there.

After that every night I would get up and walk around the house but never saw anything unusual, after a whole three months of walking around and checking for the shadow i never saw it on the night I decided I would stop walking around the house, the house had an Erie feel to it on my way back to my room the door knob on the front door began to jiggle and the door sprang open in the door was a man dressed in black he had a gun in his belt and a knife in his had, at first he stood there looking at me then he ran at me with the knife raised at this I began backing up and turned around and ran. I could hear the man following me. I reached my destination, the kitchen, and slid myself under the table just as the man entered the room, I heard him walk closer and closer to where I was hiding as I realized how stupid of a place I was hiding in, I looked over to wear I heard the footsteps and saw the mans feet and then a shadow covered my view of them, It was the shadow man with the red eyes, he was stopping the intruder from reaching me, then the shadow moved towards the intruder and the intruder ran after the intruder was gone I looked up at the shadow mans eyes and spoke “thank you”, the shadow mans eyes changed from red to white and vanished, but somehow I knew he finally moved on to where he was supposed to be.