Day 51

Prayer. It was a great sermon this morning about the power of prayer, particularly when it's scoped out to engulf other people. Prayer is a power that can open eyes and change people, let alone the world. I have to imagine by the end of the service, God was feeling almost a massage like feeling with all the prayer requests that were tickling under his feet.

Went out to Q'doba afterwards with the gang, and then I headed home for a little bit and waited for Mike. Mke and Tanya finally got there, and we went and saw the movie "Abduction". Oh. My. Gosh. The film was a fecal farm of bad acting,  a story written by a mentally handicap person, and some of the most ridiculous scenes and action sequences I've seen. Jason Isaacs is such a great actor (Harry Potter, The Patriot), I was personally offended that he accepted this role in the film. The girl in it is nothing more than a hot  teenage girl that old men were pleasuring themselves to in the theater... she had NO purpose in the movie, other then Taylor Lautner could keep watching her butt. Aside from the random explosions, the bad guys just showing up everywhere the kid was, Taylor Lautner doing a flip off of a truck pulling up to a party (impossible and stupid), Amtrak trains being portrayed as luxury class travel (they aren't, I survived an Amtrak trip with my family. It's rails are the worse in the U.S.A.), guns being snuck into a major baseball game, and my favorite line in the movie, The kids wave down a random trucker.... "Hey, will you give us a ride to Virginia?" "Sure, get in". That line alone made it into my top ten favorite forced movie lines. Seriously, you should spend your money as toilet paper rather then seeing this film. I'm not being cynical, people around us were laughing at it too, and some were leaving through it.

After the movie, me and Mike went over to Chad and Sam's house where we grabbed dinner (I won a free Redbox DVD!!! thanks Mcdonalds... the odds of winning that are 1 in 187) and we drove up to Rockford, to visit one of the most haunted places in Michigan, Hell's bridge. A brief history of Hell's bridge: A priest named Elias taught up in the forests of northern Rockford hundreds of years ago. Shortly after his sermons, he would lead children into the woods, only to tie them up and drown them. Eventually he was caught and hung. The bridge that sits back in the woods is called Hell's bridge, which is around the original hanging site. Visitors have reported laughing, footsteps, and if you go in the water, hands grabbing you. That said, we drove almost an hour and finally found the abandoned, dirt road that would take us back to the woods. We all got out of the car and just listened. We heard what sounded like foot steps coming in directions. We panicked, jumping back into the car. No one wanted to venture out and find the river and bridge in the woods. After waiting, we gathered ourselves and ventured out into the woods. I found a bone on the ground, and although I was told it was a deer leg bone, I wondered what animal could take down a deer.... We walked for five minutes into the dark woods, alone, abandoned, sweat running down my goose bump ridden neck. We finally found the bridge. I remember I was so scared I couldn't even look around me. I just stared at the ground. We took turns crossing the bridge, I saw something glowing, hanging on the tree. We couldn't figure out what it was.

Skipping ahead, as if messing with the paranormal wasn't enough, we stopped at a Haunted graveyard. Grandville Cemetery. Me and Sam got out and walked around and then, I kid you not, 50 yards away, we spotted a glowing gravestone. We did a double take. It was an actual gravestone that looked like there was yellow glow paint around it. We ran over to find it but the glowing stopped. We then went back to where we stood and then saw it glowing again. Sam stood there while I ran towards it again, and she navigated me towards which one was glowing. After what appeared to be a weird and sick game, not being able to find the mysterious glowing gravestone (I swear, it was glowing. Like glow paint, lite-brite glowing), we found the stone that was doing it. I stood where she was and navigated her towards it. I read the name on the stone.... I don't know if it's significant, but I wondered if I was supposed to find this grave stone. I noted the man's name on the grave and I'll be doing research today.... eerie.

- Hell's Bridge -