Pvt. Metz

17th of October, 1996

It was on the 17th of October, 1996. I remember i was since a week ill, so i couldn´t go outside of my house.

I use´d to live in a little village in the south of Germany, not far from the french border.

I had only recently birthday, a few weeks back.I was 15.

I normally doesn´t watched the neighborhood, but it was boring and the batteries for my gameboy were empty.

So I used to watch the neighborhood for some days.

19th of October, 1996

I still used to watch the neighborhood, ... but today ... it was so weird.

The birds fall silent, and the wind was so ... odd.

But there were more weird thing, normally we had snow first in December.

But it started to snow.

"It isn´t weird if snow starts earlier", I thought.

However, usually when the snow comes, there are alway kids, which playing in the snow.

There weren´t any kids or people on the street. It was very weird.

My father was away for some weeks ; my mother drove in the city, about 20 miles away.

The most weird thing of all was the ... fog.

We never had fog at this time, NEVER!

On the other side of the village was a forrest ,which i could see through my window.

I couldn´t see very good through the fog, but I saw the silhouette of a man with a helmet.

He disappeared in the woods. It was a very weird day...so I used to watch TV.

20th of October, 1996

I got fit and met some of my friends.I told them about the silhouette, but they did not believe me.

I started to walk home about 4 PM. There was still this creepy atmosphere.

When I passed the woods, I saw the silhouette again, with that strange helmet.

I dunno... why, I really dunno , but I .. I .... follwed the silhouette.

I knew the wood, very very good... but I got to an area which I never seen in my life.

It was rough terrain, with much trees around it. Then I lost the silhouette of the man.

I... I ... thought I went crazy. I decided to get some infos about the forrest in the library.

21st of October, 1996

I didn´t got much infos about the forrest. But there was a intressting thing about it, I found it in the city ​​archives:

"On the 4th of October, 1944 allies started to attack the area. The Wehrmacht sent about 34



Messerschmitts (German fighting plane).No one came back alive."

I remember I heard about that. My grandfather was a combat pilot, he was shot down over the region.

It was like I was possesed by this story but, I can´t stop reading.

I decided to get some friends and investigate the area.

23th of October, 1996

I told them about what happened the last 3 days ago.

They just thought I went crazy and imagine things.

But I could convince them to come with me to the forrest.

They would go tomorrow with me to the forrest.

On the way home, I saw that god damn silhouette  again, but I decided to observe it.

It was 6PM and it started to get dark. But I could see, that the silhouette had a shovel.

It came to this rough area, and stopped. I hid myself behind an old tree. The silhouette started to dig.

I wanted to take a look at it, but then I could see clearly that the silhouette was a man.

The man had a dirty old grey overall, suddenly he stopped digging and looked into my eyes.

I will never forget his face.

I started to run, but he don´t chased me.

24th of October, 1996

I dont told my friends about, what happened yesterday.

I´ve took a shovel with me and we got to that area.

I just wanted to end this...to find out why this is happening to me.

My friends was wondering why I started to dig here, but after about 8 minutes they understood me.

I found the skeleton of a combat pilot with a dirty old overall, his name was Pvt. Metz.

It was the skeleton of my grandfather.