Also on the Winner Creek Trail, we found that we were following a little girl in a pink outfit. She was small, probably only 6 or 7, I'd say. She was probably 60 yards ahead of us; we'd see her every now and again when we came around a corner, and then she'd disappear again. It was quite strange, because it appeared as though she was all alone, just a kindergartener on a hike by herself. It seemed so out of the ordinary that I kept imagining horror film scenes. For whatever reason, her presence there alone just seemed ominous; I guess that it was the juxtaposition of a cute little girl in pink looking like she was walking in the school yard when actually she was all alone with the vastness of the forest or something - unsettling! Anyway, I kept picturing her turning around and being that wicked creature that comes out of the TV in The Ring. (I hate that girl! Sometimes I still think she might come out of my TV when I go to turn it off and it's still glowing a little bit.) Or maybe even the vampire girl from Let Me In. And then, of course, I couldn't get through it without imagining those girls from The Shining.
Eventually (and not really unexpectedly) the little girl did take off ahead, and we came up to see that she did have an entire family with her after all. So that was good, because I really was not planning on being in a horror film that day.
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