英语灵异故事-The Church And The Handprint (教堂与掌印) 01（在线收听）

I'll be the first to admit, when you look at the church out in Fauquier County, it looks like a quaint country church.

　　Built back before the civil war, Grace Episcopal Church is a stone and stucco structure out in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest and fields. It has two graveyards with it, one to the side and one around back butting up to the forest. The only way to it is down a dusty, windy dirt road. At night, it is dark. And when I say dark, I mean darker than a well digger's behind. Pitch black comes to mind.

　　During the Civil War, Grace Episcopal, since it stood (at the time) on a major thoroughfare, was used as a military hospital and surgical area. People died there naturally. It was gruesome, from what I understand.

　　My story actually concerns my fifth visit to the Church (and my next-to-last, I might add). My boyfriend, Shawn, (now husband) and I had decided to go out there after I had told him about it and how it was supposedly haunted. I had told him that some odd things had happened to me there before, but nothing really all that creepy. He was curious and so we went with his stepfather, Walt, joining us.

　　I drove up to the church and parked in the front between two large oak trees. We walked through the gate of the picket fence and proceeded to look around. I had never had a creepy feeling there before, but tonight just 'felt' different, for some reason.　

当你看到福奥奎尔郡的教堂， 我会第一个承认那是一个古怪的乡村教堂。

　　格雷斯国教教堂是在南北战争之前建造的，位于一个远离人烟的地方，是岩石和灰泥结构，教堂的周围环绕着森林和农田。 教堂共有两块墓地，一块就在教堂旁边，另一块在教堂后面的森林边上。 到那的唯一通道是一条尘土飞扬、经常刮风的土路。晚上的时候，那里黑得伸手不见五指。我所说的黑，是指比挖井人的屁股还要黑。脑海中应该想到的是一片漆黑。

　　南北战争时，格雷斯国教教堂因为地处主要交通要道，所以被用作战时医院和手术区。自然地，会有人死在那。但就我个人理解，这是很可怕的。

　　实际上我要讲的故事发生在我第五次去那教堂的时候（我得补充一下那也是我倒数第二次去那）。我告诉男朋友肖恩（他现在是我的丈夫）关于这个教堂以及这里闹鬼的事情后，我俩决定到教堂去。我告诉他之前我在那有过奇怪的经历，但并不吓人。他很好奇，所以我俩还有他的继父沃尔特一起去了那。

　　我开车到那，把车停在教堂前的两棵大橡树之间。我们走过尖桩篱栅门，四处观望。我之前从没有过害怕的感觉，但今晚不知为何“感觉”不一样。