Burial Ground

Gianny Lozada
Mr.Ross
Core Composition
28 August 2011

Burial Ground
In many areas around the world, there are supernatural events that occur. In these’s events, there is usually a lost spirit trying to contact someone in present, for good or either for bad. An incident like this occurred to a boy and his family in their new home.
At the age of 15, Jacob grew up believing in realistic things, unlike Santa clause, the tooth fairy, or even spirits. Jacob and his family moved into a new house located in a rural area in Colorado Springs. He was very uneasy about his new home, but his mother and father reassured him. 3 months had passed, and Billy became comfortable in his home. But, a series of supernatural events had occurred. Jacob’s mother began to see dark figure in the corner of her room—this figure had human like features. At first, she brushed it off, until she kept seeing this figure in the same spot in her room. Jacobs’s mother began to talk to herself, and tried explaining this to her husband, but he ignored it. She would repeat to herself that there was a Native American man staring at her. After these countless events, they took his mother to a mental institute for evaluation.
3 more months had passed since his mother was admitted in a mental institute. Jacob and his father thought that everything was “normal”, until one night they heard drums beating from their basements. Then cups and plates would rattle and sometimes fall on the ground. This startled Jacob, but his father’s seemed undisturbed by these events. As Jacobs’s father went to his bed, he noticed a man, standing in the corner in the room, staring at him with its piercing eyes, this truly scared him. In the morning, Jacobs’s father decided that they should move since Jacobs mother is being released in a couple days.
Once his mother was released, Jacob was excited to see her, she seemed pretty healthy. Her skin was glowing, and her smile radiated when she seen them. While moving into this new house, the family was excited and happy that everything is going to be normal once again. A couple weeks had passed, and supernatural events started again. Jacob’s mother began to speak to herself and started to see this figure once again. So he decided to take matters into his own hands. He started to speak to psychics to unravel some answers. One psychic told him that this spirit was lost, and is searching for a new home and revenge. She couldn’t tell him why but it gave him some new insight on the situation.
When Jacob got home, he seen his mother and father lying on the bed, they looked very ill and pale. Their eyes were cold and bleak and they couldn’t stop staring at the ominous corner in the room. Jacob started talking to his grandma about their ancestors. She told him that one of their ancestors used to build houses on Native Americans burial grounds and even killed the leader of a Black foot tribe. After killing this man, Jacobs’s ancestor committed suicide after seeing a “dark figure” .This shocked Jacob, and with more research, their last home they lived in was built on a black foot burial ground, this helped him understood why this spirit is haunting his family.
Jacob hired a psychic to rid the spirit from their home; the psychic did this by burning sage in their home. Numerous of days passed from the encounter with the black foot leader, and they no longer seen this spirit.

From Jacobs and his family encounter with this spirit, it usually occurs when building or even homes were built on top of burial grounds. When his family got sick, this spirit was doing this to them in order for them to feel their pain.