The Dancing Green

This is another spirit encounter, that happened when I was older.

I was walking home from work one night. It was cold, and I had on headphones. I like my music loud, loud enough to block out outside noise, so it was strange when I started hearing it: a noise like a goat bleating, or a baby crying, not sure which. I didn’t know where the noise was coming from, so I temporarily turned off my IPod (this was that long ago) and looked around.

And I saw him, or it as it were.

He was dancing in front of a tree that was never there before or since, waving his arms in a strange rhythm. I remember how he looked from across the street corner to this day: he was green, naked… and he had no head.

A headless green man, dancing naked in front of a tree. Needless to say, I was spooked.

Seeing this strange and alarming sight, I did was any normal person would do: I pretended to hear something in another direction and went that way. I never saw him or the tree he was dancing in front of ever again.

I told a coworker about this and he said I may have insulted the spirit by pretending to ignore him. I wonder why he appeared before me that night.

I certainly will never forget him…