Creep city

I went for a photo-taking walk today and found out I live in walking distance of the caves of St. P., which was cool but creepy (stumbling upon them unexpectedly). I'll put pictures up eventually, but I doubt they'll be too interesting. But this was one of those creepy things that I'm sure has a totally boring explanation: there was a young (teenage?) couple walking ahead of me on the gravel path that I didn't know yet led down to one cave entrance. They walked down just ahead of me, and just a couple of minutes later, I saw the boy walk back up, but not the girl. Weird, but whatever. Then I found a cave entrance, and this other brick arch thing that I checked out first. I was taking pictures and kept smelling this odd burning smell that was more like incence (what I imagine church incense smelling like, anyway -- not nag champa or anything). I made my way over to the actual cave opening (I should clarify that it was sort of barred over -- not sure if the pictures will show it, but I was too creeped out to get too close -- but borderline as far as being able to sneak in), I realized there was a large smoldering torch that was giving off the odor, leaning against the entrance and just smoking away.

Boring explanation: Most likely, they met down there (I'm 99% sure that area is accessible from the bottom as well as the way I came) to have sex or whatever kids do and were wandering up and back down the trail when I saw them. She probably left from the bottom and he was walking back up. They were probably in the cave, using the torch for light, and left it half-extinguished outside the entrance. It was probably made of a shrub that smells sweeter than most wood (we had some lilac branches to burn at my last place which smelled lovely).

But it was creepy! I was all alone in the woods! People have died in those caves! The sun went behind a cloud!

So that's my super-lame scary ghost story. Walking along the path, I found several smaller openings that looked straight into larger caverns, and possibly one larger entrance, but I was too scared to look too closely this trip. Maybe someday I'll bring someone with me (need to tell my brother about the entrances for sure) and actually be able to investigate these caves. It's been a dream of mine for years (http://www.actionsquad.org/underground.html), but no way I'm going IN by myself, since I can barely get close to the entrances!