Ghosts on a Plane by M.L. Bullock

Author:M.L. Bullock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghost, ghosts, haunted, fear of flying, fears, scary, dark, curses, plane crash
Publisher: M.L. Bullock
Published: 2017-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve—Gregory Lawless

“What is that? It looks...radioactive.” Desi let out a stream of expletives, and I agreed with every one of them. “We aren’t flying into a hot zone, are we?” His voice stuck in his throat. I didn’t answer him because I didn’t have any answers. None at all. If I hadn’t been staring at this thing myself, I wouldn’t have believed it either.

“Ground says there’s nothing there—you heard them. So, either we’re both hallucinating or they can’t see what we see. You find an alternate route?”

“I’ve punched it in. Just waiting for you to accept the changes. Should we let the passengers know about this?”

I thought about that for a moment. What would I say? Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to call your attention to the ominous-looking green fog ahead of us. We might be in trouble here, folks. Sweat popped out on my brow as I began to guide the plane up for a steep climb. “No time for that. The damn thing is moving toward us. Look at the radar!” It was my turn to swear now. Was this even possible? Like a giant, living thing, the cloud expanded, fueled by God knows what. One last time I called the tower. “Townsend, this is Flight 1199 approaching Rachel Island. We’ve sent you our new heading. Please confirm.”

“Flight 1199, this is Townsend. You’re not clear to...” Screeching sounds replaced the bored controller’s voice, and I snatched the headphones off to keep the sound from piercing my eardrums.

“Desi, what’s the problem?” I couldn’t shift the plane. It was as if someone else were flying this beast and flying it fast directly into the expanding, glowing mass in front of us. The plane shuddered beneath my grip, but I refused to release the controller. I couldn’t give up; I had to keep it together. Grunting with effort, I did my best to avert the anomaly but couldn’t change course; the computer wasn’t responding to the new coordinates at all. As if it heard me, I got confirmation that the coordinates were not accepted by the computer. Great, just great!

And then we were inside the cloud, but it wasn’t quite a cloud. It was something else, maybe a dense fog, but things moved in it. And not birds. These weren’t birds but things that didn’t belong up here at thirty thousand feet. As patches of the cloud illuminated here and there, I saw shapes, gray shapes of men and women and other horrible things as they began to appear briefly and then flicker out. Silhouettes only, no clear faces.

“Desi! Snap out of it! Shut down the air conditioning. We don’t want that fog getting in here.” He wasn’t listening, and the switches were just out of my reach. My aviator glasses shook on my face as the plane shuddered in the dense cloud. I heard Desi swear beside me again. The plane shook repeatedly, and I did my best to keep it flying. My copilot did as I asked him but didn’t say another word.

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