the haunted forest in Tilden Park

Halloween Memories – the haunted forest in Tilden Park

In Berkeley
There is a haunted forest
In Tilden Park
Along inspiration point
the forest they say
was haunted by many ghosts
of the past
including the Indians
who used to live there.

but during the summer and fall
of 1974 there were rumors
that there was a new ghost
a mad bagpiper
who roamed the hills
playing his mournful music.

one Halloween night
late at night,
my friends and I went to Tilden
after smoking some weed
and drinking some beer

as we walked in the forest

we heard through fog
the sound of a bagpiper
we were a bit apprehensive
wondering if we were going
to encounter the ghost,

but the bagpiper never appeared
the sounds faded away
perhaps it was just the marijuana
causing us to hallucinate the experience.,

Maybe there was no bagpiper,
just our wild marijuana enhanced imagination
coming to life.