At one time, I used to laugh when I heard stories by people who said they had encounters with ghosts or evil spirits. What nonsense! I used to say to myself.

     I don't laugh about such things anymore because I almost died of fright late one night after I had met two evil spirits! Even now, my body gets cold all over when I think about what had happened. In one incident, I was cruising in my taxi along Canary Road, looking for passengers. I switched on my radio and was listening to Diana Ross singing. I looked at my car clock. It was 25 minutes after midnight. 

    The beams from my headlamps caught the figure of a woman standing at the side of the road and I saw she was waving at me to stop. As I came closer, I noticed was dressed in white and was carrying something on her left arm. It was covered with a cloth. I thought it had to be a baby.

     The woman had long, black hair which hung loosely on both sides of her face, so I didn't get a good look at her as she occupied the rear seat. She shut the door and said to me "Go up Mount Mahogany Road, please."

     I thought it was strange that a woman with a baby in her arms would wish to go up Mount Mahogany at this late hour. I'm not the inquisitive type so I proceeded up Mount Mahogany Road, and kept going for another three hundred yards or so when she told me to stop. I pulled the car to the side of the road and wondered why she had asked me to do so, since the road was very dark and there were bushes and trees on either side.

     She leaned over the front seat and placed what I had thought to be her baby on the seat beside me. It was still wrapped up in a white cloth. 

     "Please look after my baby for a few minutes while I ease myself," she said to me. She got out of the taxi and disappeared into the darkness.

     I must have been waiting for about ten minutes. I began to get worried. Something strange was going on. The baby began to cry.

     I got out of the car and shone my flashlight around calling out, "Miss, your baby is crying!" There was no reply.

     I ran back to the car and got into the front seat. The baby was crying at the top of its voice. I picked it up and removed the cloth that was covering its face -- and I screamed!

    The baby's face had a black, scaly skin and I was looking into two yellow eyes! A cold sweat broke all over me when I heard it calling my name... "Benjamin! Benjamin!"

     I was still screaming as I tossed the 'baby' out of the front window and got the hell out of there. I saw the woman in white in the beams of my headlamps. She was in the centre of the road with her arms outstretched and trying to block my way! I could see her face clearly now -- she had the same horrible face and eyes as her horrible  baby!

    I jammed my foot on the accelerator and raced past her up the hill -- and breathed a sigh of relief as I saw some other cars parked there. 

    I stayed awake all night and only came down  from the hill when the sun was up and there was traffic on the road!