OK here is a shitty picture I drew in about 30 seconds. Basically the river is in the middle, and it is a small dam that the Ohio River empties into. We were there because huge fish are suppose to come out into that river from the dam. Behind me and my friends is a little walk to a parking lot, everything to the right of us is heavily wooded area. The area on the left behind the dam is a old freeway, and large, very steep rocky cliffs. You could not walk up these, or down them without getting hurt. The point here is where the ghost starts it would not have been possible for it to get there without going past us. The ghost actually starts at the top of the stairs on the dam on his side, a little further back then the picture suggests. So basically here is what happened. Read after the picture.
OK, so we were all fishing, keep in mind I was completely sober, and we were not drinking. We had been there maybe an hour, it was late, well after midnight. Very dark and no one else around. You can actually walk around to the other side of the dam, which we did before coming back to where we were in the drawing to set up our gear. We were originally all hanging out by me in the picture, but my friends went about 10 feet back to smoke and asked me to watch the lines.
All the sudden out of nowhere a very dark, hooded looking figure started at the top of the stairs, and started going down them. At that point my friend Danny was like "Jeremy, what the hell are you doing over there watch the lines", and I replied, "I'm right here!!". My other friends, David, Josh, and Jerry, and Jeremy, all stopped what they were doing and got really quiet. Mind you a few seconds had only passed this thing was now at the bottom of the stairs and was heading down the path toward where you see it sitting in the pic. This thing had to be close to 7 feet tall, and it didn't walk, it glided like on a Jetson's escalator, to the grassy patch in the picture, where it sat down. I mean this thing was so dark, it had no features, it just looked like a tall, dark hooded figure with no features you could see. By the time it sat down my friends were all finally by me, and we were looking for any sign this thing was a real person. We started yelling "hey! what you doing over there?", "come over here" etc.. This thing never answered. Then we noticed this weird light right by the head that looked like a cigarette cherry. but it was much brighter. We kept yelling. Still no response.
Then were were finally starting to accept this wasn't something human. We then for some dumb reason decided to start throwing rocks at this thing. It never flinched and they went right through it. The thing never moved it just sat there. We packed our shit in about 20 seconds and walked as fast as we could out while 2 other walked backwards to the car. It was about a 3 minute walk to the car, and it was intense as fuck. I admit, I was scared. And everyone else was too.
I was thinking about this a few weeks ago, because I can not remember what the place was called. I want to look it up and see if there were any similar events recorded.
But to top it all off me and Josh went to work the next day. We both worked for Airborne Express in Wilmington Ohio. We were talking to this guy and he was like "what you all do this weekend?". Me and Josh didn't mention the sighting, but simply stated we went to the spillway to fish. The guy immediately replied "Oh! you 2 went to spook hollow, you know that place is haunted don't you?"
I still get cold chills when I tell people the story. The hairs on my arm stand straight up when I think of that figure gliding across the path. It was the first and only ghost related thing that ever happened to me, and the only thing I need to know to realize there is unexplained stuff out there. You really have to see this stuff, to believe it.