Figure On The Proch 02
门廊鬼影 02

　　I lay back down and tried to go back to sleep. After I had lain there for about 5 minutes, I started to hear a tapping sound. I listened for a minute, and that was when I realized that the sound was coming from underneath my bed! I was too afraid to look under it, so I just tried to ignore it and go to sleep. After it did it for almost 10 minutes, the tapping suddenly stopped. What happened next I will never forget for as long as I live.

　　There was a lone window in the room, and that night the curtains were pulled back. I was facing the window, and just moments after the tapping stopped, a white transparent figure slowly moved past the window from right to left. It seemed to be walking on the front porch, which covered the entire front of the house. The figure appeared to have a glow to it, kind of like the moon has. Needless to say, I was horrified. I froze in terror, with my eyes fixed on the window. Fortunately I didn’t see it again. I tried to rationalize what I had just seen, but I couldn’t. We were in the middle of nowhere! There were no roads, no cars, no nothing, just a long dirt road and a bunch of trees. Everyone else was asleep, so I was the only one who saw this. I was too scared to sleep after that, so I just lay there for the rest of the night. The next morning I was thinking about what I had seen, and I remembered that sometimes my aunt would hang clothes out to dry on the front porch. This must have been what I had seen, right? Maybe it was a sheet or something. I asked her at breakfast if she had left any clothes out on the porch last night. She said she didn’t dry anything at all yesterday! There was no other explanation for what I had seen. Honestly, I really didn't think a sheet could have looked like that, anyway. This thing’s movement was too animated to be a sheet. I guess I just wanted to think that.

　　于是，我又躺回去，抓紧时间睡觉。在我躺下不到五分钟，就开始听到有轻轻的叩击声从我床底下传来，吓得我也不敢下去看，只好置之不理，继续睡觉。就这样过了足足十分钟，敲击声突然停了，而接下来发生了一件令我今生难忘的事情！

　　这间屋子有一个很高的窗户，那天夜里窗帘没拉上，而我就正对着窗户。在敲击声刚刚结束的瞬间，一个白色的、轮廓明显的身影就慢慢地从右向左经过了窗前，看上去好像是沿着前面的门廊走了过去，房子的前面都用这种门廊遮盖着，这个身影看上去带着跟月光一样的亮光。毫无疑问，我被吓呆了，我愣在那里，两眼直勾勾的紧盯着窗户，幸运的是，我没有再看到他。我想给我刚才所看到的找一个合理的解释，但是，我做不到。我们是在一个荒无人烟的地方，这儿没有公路，没有汽车，什么都没有，只有一条长长的土路和树丛。当时，他们几个都睡着了，而我是唯一一个看到这个影子的人，第二天早上我还在琢磨昨晚我看到的那一幕，突然想起来姑妈有时候会在前面的门廊上晒衣服，是不是我看错了呢？也许，那只是一张床单或者其它什么的。于是在吃早饭时，我问姑妈昨晚上她有没有在前面门廊上留下衣服。她说昨天一天她什么也没有晒！我再找不到什么可以用来解释我所看到的这一切了。说实话，不管怎样，我打心眼里也不认为床单看上去会是那个样子，床单不会像它这样活生生地动啊！

　　我觉得也许我只是那么想而已。