A Scream in the Night

I grew up in Monitor, just a few miles out of Lafayette, IN on St. Rd. 26 E. This place is haunted. There is an indian burial mound that was across the creek from our house. It was on the property of my school bus driver who confirmed that yes indeed this was a burial mound. As a kid I was not really aware of the ghosts, but as a teeager I had countless experiences. At night I would hear voices whispering near the barn, another night I heard what sounded like children that were laughing and screaming right in our front yard. My mom always said the noises were probably just cats, but she heard the kids that night and admitted that it was spooky and definetly NOT cats. Others heard these voices too. My high school boyfriends mom was picking him up from our house late one night and heard voices. Monitor is a fairly isolated area, we didn\'t have neighbors with kids and the houses were not near each other. The scariest thing I ever heard while living out there happend one night when I was about sixteen. It was summer break and me, my friend, my brother and sister were all sitting out on our deck at about midnight or so. We heard this loud scream that sounded like it was coming right at us very fast. We all looked at each other and ran into the house screaming. I have no idea what that was, but I know it was not of this world. I have talked to my brother and we have tried to make sense of what it could have been, but no human or animal could make that kind of noise. Whatever it was, was trying to scare the hell out of us and it did!
Joslyn McElwain