I live in rural Virginia, and my high school, believe it or not, was in between two pastures in a very agrarian area. Although I was never much into sports, I had a few friends who were, and several were on the cross-country running team.
我家住在弗吉尼亚州郊外。信不信由你，我上高中的学校正好位于两个牧场之间的一块地地道道的庄稼地上。我是不大喜欢体育运动，但是有几个朋友在田径队练越野跑。
 
The course lay out for the cross-country track took a meandering path around the school, then out into the pastures around the school (with the permission of the farmers, of course). One part of the course took the runners past an immense old farmhouse, abandoned and dilapidated on the crest of a hill overlooking the school. There were, of course, rumorsthat it was haunted, but to my knowledge no one ever saw or heard anything there. It was just a big, old, spooky, abandoned house.
越野跑的路线是一段围绕着学校弯弯曲曲的路，还要穿过附近的牧场（当然，事先已经取得了主人的许可）。路线的一部分还要穿过一座非常大的农舍，已经废弃了很久，坐落在一座小山顶上，从那里可以俯瞰我们的学校。因为很久没有人住了，所以很自然地一直传说那里闹鬼，但是据我所知没人在那看见过什么，也没听到过什么特别的声音。那只不过是一座很大、很古老、有些神秘的遗弃了的房子。