A late spring night at a local Cemetery in Joliet Illinois

It's about 8:00 p.m. and I am sitting in a chair inside one of the local cemeteries here in Joliet. The cemetery is of Slavic descent, that is lots of interesting names to read and to try and pronounce.

It's a warm evening lots of thunder clouds in the sky, but no really threat of rain it's just a slightly humid day with the wind blowing, and a perfect evening to just relax.

So here I sit, quietly and all of a sudden out of nowhere there appeared in the east side of the cemetery a person standing and staring to the South. He wasn't looking at a stone because everybody faces the South basically in that section of the cemetery. He is still standing, and staring maybe he is somewhat in a state of deep prayer and thought, or some kind of prayerful state of mind.

Now we know that this weekend is father's day, and lots of people come out to the cemeteries to put flowers on the graves and to wash the gravestones and to spend some time in quiet prayer. And that's what this seems to look like and as I kept looking, all of a sudden the person just disappeared into the Woods.

A number of birds seem to be annoyed at his presence in that area of the woods, and all of a sudden you hear a screech owl making a clutter. What could this possibly be, who could this possibly be, I feel in some ways I need to go, and to go now. And so that is what I'm going to do, I'm going to move myself closer and closer to the gate but before I do, I am going to spend some time in the area where the man disappeared.

I noticed as I kept moving towards the road I looked to the north East where the man disappeared but I noticed that there is a fence there and I can't imagine this man jumping the fence. So my final thoughts are he's still in the cemetery somewhere.

And then out of nowhere a voice that was as clear as the blue sky said, and I quote, "who are you and what are you looking for?" And I said to myself very clearly, I'm out of here. I remember my dad saying "never fear the dead they can't hurt you but the living can."

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