BASED ON A TRUE STORY BY GEOJIM2006:

"I was on a trip to the Outer Banks of NC with my fiancé many years ago when we were transitioning into being more than friends. It was in October, off-season, and we were staying in a beach house in the town of Duck. It was our first night there and we walked down the road to the beach access, close to midnight.

It was relatively calm out, very little wind, and dark. Only the stars were visible since the moon wasn’t out yet. We sat down on some wooden steps leading down to the beach to “puff-puff pass” if you know what I mean. We were sitting there looking at the stars and watching the waves as our eyes soon adjusted to the dark.

We had just started things when I Suddenly became aware of voices and two shadowy figures approaching along the beach. I nudged Elana and she looked and saw them as well. We quickly tucked things away assuming they were a couple walking along the beach and might be about to approach us where we were sitting on the steps of the beach access. We couldn’t see their faces or distinguish what they were wearing. Rather, they appeared gray and shadowy, with no distinguishing features.

I assumed this was because it was very dark out and I was not even thinking about that, assuming they would come into clearer view once they were closer. We sat there watching them, anticipating them to approach and eventually walk past us on the steps. Instead, they paused, as if they became aware of our presence, and rather than continue their walk along the beach, turned towards the water and began walking towards the open ocean. Even weirder still, no waves appeared to crash or break against their legs or bodies as they entered the surf, but rather, they simply faded into the waves and the darkness.

We sat silent for a few moments before turning and looking at each other in disbelief. We are certain that we both saw something that night. Now, I’m not saying that there couldn’t be a rational, scientific explanation or that it wasn’t imagined, but it truly is the only moment in my life where I am nearly certain that we did in fact see two ghosts, spirits, apparitions, or something otherworldly. There was no fear or feelings of dread or anything, just the certainty that two people were approaching and that we better pause what we were doing and put things away. I would like to note that we had just started and were not far enough into what we were imbibing and were experienced enough in such matters that no one will convince us that it had anything to do with what we saw. Maybe if only one of us had thought we were seeing or hearing something, but both of us? With as many shipwrecks that have happened over the centuries along the Outer Banks, I like to believe that they were in fact ghosts, perhaps from one of those shipwrecks.

Moments later as we sat there still puzzling over what we had just seen, a fiery red glow appeared on the horizon that at first looked like fire, but was soon revealed to be a half-moon rising up out of the ocean and eventually into the night sky. At some point we did resume what we had started."