When I was a kid in Albuquerque NM, we lived along an irragation ditch, quite common in that city.
I was told a story about a woman who was dressed in black who walked the ditchs at night weeping and looking for her children who drowned in one of those ditchs.
If she seen you or caught you along the ditchs at night, she would take you away and keep you as a one of her own.
It was sooo scary and I actually thought I could hear her because of the way the wind blew thru the trees.
A childhood belief about ghosts
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I used to believe that teachers lived in ufos at night and tha's why they dressed so weird.— llama queen
- I used to believe that the wind was caused by trees so you could stop the wind by getting rid of trees.— Nira
- My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.— casey
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- My young daughter thought that night came after the trees ate all the sunlight.— Bruce