The Gap Ghost
When I was sixteen, I travelled to Sydney by car with two friends. It was my first time out of Victoria, and the guy we were travelling with had been to Sydney before. He suggested we watch the sunset at a place called The Gap.
We arrived at the lookout point just as the sun was starting to set. It was a beautiful spot, and you could see way out over the ocean, with rocky cliffs all around.
So the three of us stood there with about twenty or so other tourists, watching this magnificent sunset, when all of a sudden something caught my peripheral vision to the left. Whatever it was, it was on a cliff with a rock shelf jutting out over the rocks and sea many meters below. It was a shadowy figure of what looked like a German Shepherd running backwards and forwards on the ledge barking, but I couldn't hear the actual sound. I pointed it out to my female friend, and she saw it too, but the guy with us couldn't see it.
The next thing my friend and I saw was the shadowy figure of a man walking along the ledge. The dog was gone by now, and the man walked to the end and sat down with his legs swinging from the ledge. My friend and I were starting to panic by this stage, and it was drawing attention from the other tourists. I don't know if they were seeing what we were seeing, but I at least was in full panic mode, yelling for somebody help him. There was no way we could reach him.
The next thing he did scared me even more (even as I write this, my heart is pounding from the memory): he lowered himself from the ledge and was hanging on with his stomach and elbows; his other half just hung off, dangling precariously.
All of a sudden the dog was back, barking, trying to pull the man back with its teeth, clamping on to a bit of his jacket. But the man let go. A scream tore from my throat. As he fell, he just vanished, and when I looked back up to the ledge, the dog was gone too.
I was stunned, shaken, and crying, and so was my friend. The guy we were with didn't know what to think, trying to comfort us as best he could. I did not sleep much that night!
The next day, we went to the space needle thing that points out different places in Sydney, and The Gap was mentioned as a very popular suicide point. We then had lunch at a pub close to The Gap. Outside the pub was a statue of a German Shepherd, who had saved quite a few people from jumping by running back to the pub, barking to alert people that something was wrong. The dog had also rescued a couple of potential jumpers by dragging them off the ledge using his teeth!
Staring at that statue, I knew one hundred percent that I had seen two spirits on the cliff. I'll never forget that day, and my mind remains open to any and all further sightings.
