Me and three friends decided to go on a "scary" trip in Selma one night and video tape the whole
thing. My friend Kristen is from Selma and she suggested we go to Old Cahawba and look around because she'd been there before.
It was kinda creepy driving through there at night, but no one really expected to see anything, especially Kristen because
she'd never seen anything.
We'd been filming all night long at various places like the creepy place with the crosses in Prattville
and the Plantation Manor where the ghost of Mr. Smith supposedly flirts with girls. All of this was on video tape.
So we're driving around up at Old Cahawba and we see this sign that sais "Crocheron Columns" and we turn and go about twenty
feet and it dead ends. Well, we think the night may be a bust, so we back up and film a two minute peice on how funny the
name is.
I know for a fact that this was filmed...I was the one on camera and I saw the recording light on...I'd been on camera
all night long. So we tape the short peice and drive off down the road and see this sign pointing to some kind of burial ground
or cemetery or something.
None of us thought we'd see anything, so we followed it. Down the road we see this house to the left...the Kirkpatrick
house, I think...and it's really creepy looking because it's a full moon out and it's glowing blue. So we look and decide
we'll turn around up the road and come back to it after we go to the burial ground.
We drive on and see this sign that points to the burial ground and look to the right and notice this random golf cart aobut
ten or fifteen ft. off the side of the road. We think this is kinda strange and wonder why it's out there, etcetera, and we
begin to take the turn to go into the burial ground.
Right when we turned and our lights hit the golf cart a lady appeared and was sitting in the golf cart in a white dress,
bonnet, and black shawl with a man sitting next to her staring at us with this pale blank face.
We start screeming and throw the car into reverse and jet off down the road trying to drive as fast on a dirt road as we
possibly could. Me and my friend Sarah, with the camera, look back (and she is still video taping) and there is this light
following us down the road. It keeps following us until we get off of the dirt road and onto the pavement.
I don't know how we got out of there. But as soon as we got out Sarah rewound the film and began to watch the tape to see
what we got. Nothing was there. Every thing we filmed that night before Cahawba was there, and even my freaked out face that
she filmed after we got back onto the paved road was there, but none of the Cahawba was...not even the Crocheron Columns plug
we did.
Needless to say, we got the crap scared out of us all...I was wondering what you thought. Have you ever heard of anything
happening down at Old Cahawba...and what kind of cemetery or burial ground is out there. Do you think that the Kirpatricks
were in that golf cart?
Just to let you know, this happened around midnight on October the 11th (or 12th morning)...Saturday. If you could write
and tell me what you think, I would appreciate it. If you think it was a prank, please let me know also.
