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At the end of Bowling Green Lane in Lewisville, where the road meets the quiet stretch of Raldon Park, strange things have been happening for years. Locals talk about the mist—the thick, ghostly fog that rolls in at dusk on certain nights. It creeps through the trees, wrapping around the old oaks and hanging low over the park's grassy field, swallowing the landscape in an eerie silence. Sometimes the mist is just that—nothing but a strange fog, out of place but harmless. Other times, though, the mist carries something more — a figure.
Residents who live near Bowling Green Lane say they've seen him, clear as day. A Confederate soldier, his gray uniform worn and tattered, appearing out of the mist like a memory that refuses to fade. He's often spotted by the creek at the edge of the park, standing knee-deep in the water, or walking along the path, looking lost and out of place in this century. Some say he seems to be searching for something, while others believe he's simply trying to get water, as soldiers did in the past.
But no one can figure out why he's there. There's no record of any Civil War battles in Lewisville, no official connection between the town and Confederate military action. The old timers will tell you there's no known history linking this stretch of land to the war at all. And yet, the soldier keeps appearing, as if tied to this place for reasons long forgotten.
Those who've seen him describe the same thing: he moves slowly, his gaze distant, sometimes looking toward the creek, other times scanning the park, as if he's expecting to find something that no longer exists. Some speculate he's come back to a home that once stood nearby, a house or a farm lost to time, its foundations buried beneath the grass and the trees. Maybe he's looking for his family, long gone, or maybe he doesn't know he's a ghost at all—just a soldier, trying to finish a task that was interrupted by death.
What's stranger still is that sometimes, when the mist rolls in thick but the soldier doesn't appear, people claim to feel his presence. The air grows heavy, and the park seems to hold its breath. Dogs won't enter the park on those nights, growling low at something their owners can't see. And those who walk near the creek swear they hear faint footsteps or the distant clinking of canteens, as though the past is bleeding through the present, just out of reach.
There's no explaining the haunting of Raldon Park. No reason why a Confederate soldier would be roaming this quiet town, far from any known battlefield. But the mist still comes, and the soldier still walks, his reasons a mystery, like so many other ghosts whose stories are lost to time. Perhaps he's simply a reminder that not all spirits find rest, and not every place needs a reason to be haunted.