The Ghost Of McMacAble

It was a cold dark  windy night.  The trees in the woods were shivering from the cold frost bitten air. You could just hear the whimpering of the leaves as the cold brittle wind blew through thier branches . In the near distance , the eerie sound of hurrying footsteps getting closer and closer.

50 miles away three middleaged hunters were making thier  way through the woods in hopes of finding some kind of shelter for the night. Thier campsite was overtaken by a pack of hungry wolves, so they left without gathering any of thier belongings.

Pete, a farmer from Kentucky, was ahead of the other two men. " there has to be something up ahead , i`m really getting tired of all this walking"  he said with a snarky gesture. " Whose bright idea was it anyways to go hunting on a weekend like this " he roared. " I could of been at home right now  with my wife cuddling up to a nice warm fire." "Oh put a lid on it would you Pete, face it man, you got us lost up here! " " and if you didn`t leave the food out of the coolers , the wolves would never of took over our campsite, and we would be in front of a nice hot fire , keeping warm . But who is blaming anyone anyways,  we are lost and we will just have to survive throughout the night without all of this whinning and complaining." said  Johnny, a  lawyer from  Idaho.

Onward they went , not saying a word amongst themselfves. The wind started to pick up a little more speed as it blew across the tattered and tired faces of the three men. Were they really going to survive the night?

With total excitement in his voice, Davy Jr. , an older gentleman from  Ireland, Yells with all he had in him. " A cabin !  Look ahead ! There is a cabin!, Maybe they will let us come inside and get warm for a bit. " he said , with all the excitement of a third grader.

As they hurried ahead  to get to the cabin as fast as they could , an awful, loud and extremely nerve bending sound came from the woods behind them, you could just see the dust from Pete`s shoes as he ran faster than anyone could imagine. He was afraid to admit it , but he was terrified of the haunting night sounds of the woods.

Pete was the first to reach the cabin. Without a second thought he jumped up on the top step of the cabins front porch.  He proceeded to knock on the door before the other two could reach the front of the cabin. He knocked and knocked , but no one answered . Johnny and Davy finally get to the cabin, Johnny was all out of breath from running, Davy was as calm as could be. He climbed the front steps and walked over and took a peek inside of the window. He could see the fireplace burning away. On a coffee table in the living room he also saw a cup which looked as though it had something hot and steamy in it. He could just smell the fresh brewed coffee right then . He turned and walked over to the door that Pete was still tapping on. " Someone has to be home , there is a cup of coffee on the table and and it is still steamy". Davy then takes the door handle and turns it to open the door. " Hello! , is anyone home? " . Slowly he walks in , Pete and Johnny right behind him. " Looks like they have stepped out for a few minutes"  said Johnny. " you may be right Johnny, " says Davy. " I`m sure they will not mind if we just  stayed for a bit and get warm. So the three men gathered in front of the fireplace, each of them rubbing thier hands over the hot fire . 

The fresh smell of freshly brewed coffee was attracting thier tastebuds. " I sure would love a hot cup of coffee right about now"said Pete. " I don`t think they would mind if I made a cup ", and off he goes to the kitchen . " would anyone else like one while i`m in here? " Pete asks. Without a second thought the other two men said yes. Pete proceeds to get three coffee mugs out of the cupboard. As he walked around the kitchen table he could see a brand new ten dollar bill on the table.  Nothing else was on the table but the ten dollar bill. Pete returns to the counter where the coffee pot was sitting .It was still hot and full of fresh coffee. As he is making the coffee for the other two men , he takes another glance at the money on the table. " hmmm, he  thinks to himself, no one will miss it , besides no one will see me take it,  He then stops making the coffees and walks over to the table.... picks up the ten dollars....looks around ....then  goes to put it in his pocket. Before he could get it into his pocket from out of nowhere appeared this huge ghostly figure. He snatched the ten dollars out of Pete`s hand  and slams in down on the table and say " I`m the ghost of McMacAble ! That ten dollars stays on the table!', and without any warning Pete flew out of the kitchen, right out the front door without saying a word except " you guy`s are on your own".

Johnny and Davy just turned and looked at each other ,Johnny says' what on earth was that all about". 

Johnny goes to the kitchen and looks around...." I told you all along Davy , Pete is nuts I tell ya ! just plain nuts!" " i`ll make the darn coffee ok?" .   Johnny returns to the kitchen and continues to make the coffee . He put a teaspoon of sugar in one cup and two teaspoons in the other cup . As he is pouring the coffee into the first cup he looks at the kitchen table. He to notices the ten dollars on the table. Without a second thought he snatches up the money and goes to put it in his pocket. Out of  nowhere the ghostly figure reappears , rips the ten dollars out of Johnny`s hand and with a eerie cry to his voice he again says" I`m the ghost of McMacAble, that ten dollars stays on the table".  Johnny barely touched the floor as he flew out of the kitchen , straight to the front door . As he was running out of the cabin you could hear him say " run Davy! run!".   Without looking back Johnny to was gone as far and as fast as he could . 

Davy was now on his own. He went into the kitchen to see for himself what the trouble was . He was all around the kitchen and see `s nothing at all. He thinks to himself " those two are totally nuts, thier brains must have gotten a little frost bitten or something". He carries on to make his own coffee himself.  He picks up his cup and continues to walk towards the livingroom. As he walks by the kitchen table he spots the ten dollars. He looks around to make sure no onw was watching, the he picks up the ten dollars and puts it in his pocket. He slowly takes his coffee and walks towards the livingroom. Again out of nowhere , only more angry than before  the ghostly figure reappears again.  He jumps in front of Davy and says" I`m the ghost of  McMacAble, that ten dollars stays on the table!" . Davy just stands there and chuckles. In returns he replys to the ghost." I you fool, am the ghost of Davy Crocket ! That ten dollars stays in my pocket!"  

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