靈異故事:The House in the Field 1(荒野小屋 1)

I live in rural Virginia, and my high school, believe it or not, was in between two pastures in a very agrarian area. Although I was never much into sports, I had a few friends who were, and several were on the cross-country running team.
The course lay out for the cross-country track took a meandering path around the school, then out into the pastures around the school (with the permission of the farmers, of course). One part of the course took the runners past an immense old farmhouse, abandoned and dilapidated on the crest of a hill overlooking the school. There were, of course, rumors that it was haunted, but to my knowledge no one ever saw or heard anything there. It was just a big, old, spooky, abandoned house.
At times, the CC runners did see someone poking around there, but it was obviously the owner of the property as they would see his truck parked in front of the place, and they could see that he was using the downstairs rooms to store equipment and surplus hay.
That being said, I shall relate the story of my friend on the CC run, and the subsequent discovery made by myself and some intrepid companions one day...
Her name was Candy, and she was on the CC team. She was hardly the star member, and would, unfortunately, often find herself running alone. That never dampened her spirits, however, and she remained on the team doing her part. One day, when as usual the pack had left her far behind, she found herself alone as she trudged up the hill towards the old house. Glancing up, she saw someone walk past an upstairs window. She thought nothing of it, of course, assuming it was the farmer. It didn’t dawn on her until later that his truck was not in its usual place in front of the house.
我家住在弗吉尼亞州郊外。信不信由你，我上高中的學(xué)校正好位于兩個(gè)牧場(chǎng)之間的一塊地地道道的莊稼地上。我是不大喜歡體育運(yùn)動(dòng)，但是有幾個(gè)朋友在田徑隊(duì)練越野跑。
越野跑的路線是一段圍繞著學(xué)校彎彎曲曲的路，還要穿過附近的牧場(chǎng)(當(dāng)然，事先已經(jīng)取得了主人的許可)。路線的一部分還要穿過一座非常大的農(nóng)舍，已經(jīng)廢棄了很久，坐落在一座小山頂上，從那里可以俯瞰我們的學(xué)校。因?yàn)楹芫脹]有人住了，所以很自然地一直傳說那里鬧鬼，但是據(jù)我所知沒人在那看見過什么，也沒聽到過什么特別的聲音。那只不過是一座很大、很古老、有些神秘的遺棄了的房子。
有時(shí)，跑步的人見到有人在里面走來走去，但是誰都知道那就是房子的主人，因?yàn)樗目ㄜ嚲屯Ｔ诖箝T口。大家也都知道他是用樓下的房間儲(chǔ)存一些機(jī)器和剩下的干草。
講到這里讀者應(yīng)該明白了，我的這個(gè)故事是與練越野跑的朋友有關(guān)的，下面我要說的是我和幾個(gè)膽大的朋友某一天的發(fā)現(xiàn)…
她叫做坎迪，也是田徑隊(duì)的成員。但是她永遠(yuǎn)也成不了隊(duì)里的明星，而且還總是被其他隊(duì)員遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)的落在后面。然而，她的積極性卻從來沒有減弱，一直留在隊(duì)里訓(xùn)練、比賽。一天，像往常一樣她又被大部隊(duì)甩到后面很遠(yuǎn)，這時(shí)她一個(gè)人朝著山上的老房子艱難的跑過去。不經(jīng)意間向上瞥了一眼，她看見有個(gè)人影透過樓上的窗戶閃了一下。當(dāng)時(shí)她沒在意，以為又是房子主人在那了。直到?jīng)]在以往的地方看見他的卡車，坎迪才覺得有點(diǎn)不對(duì)勁。