Quote Originally Posted by light_sabe_r View Post
...I was riding past the children's playground at stonescorner when I see a child probably no older than three sitting there...
Anyway my moral self got the better of me and I turned around and headed back...
LightS,
That story reminds me of something from a ride i did a month ago or so...
I was biking down a wooded road in the middle of nowhere, chilly Autumn day. As I sped along, I thought I heard the small sound of a little cry in the woods- just one little sad cry. I figured it was a bird or something and kept riding. But yes, my conscious started eating at me- what if someone had left a baby or toddler oout in the woods abandoned?- they would freeze and die!
So I turned around and headed back to that stretch of road and stopped to listen- nothing. Road up and down a couple more times, called out, nothing.
Then just as I was about to ride on, there it was again, the sad cry! I had to wait for a third time to finally pinpoint what it was- it wasn't a child at all, it was two trees rubbing against each other in the wind, making a strange mournful creaking noise like the mast of a ship.
But I'm glad I did go back because it would have forever bothered me.