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A Strange Day in July

It was the summer of 1999. Every day we would walk into the forest and he would teach me something new. So every day we marched in to the forest. It was a stream that he took me to that day.

He decided he was going to teach me how to skip rocks on the water. He showed me the kind of rocks I should be trying, and how to stand.

I threw my first rock. It ended in a little splash. I threw my second one down the stream. At the end of this stream there was a tiny water fall. When I threw the pebble it bounced 5 times then went down the waterfall. My brother was so proud of me. My back was to the stream. My brothergave me this strange look. I had never seen this look before. It was a look of bewilderment and shock. I turned and saw the rock I had just thrown skipping back. He asked how I made it come back, and I told him that I didn’t know.

As we walked back, it was quiet. To this day we don’t kno the cause to this peculiar incident, but we aren’t the only people who have had eerie experiences.

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