That Was No Lady

This story regards a vacation a police officer and his buddy took to a lodge located Up North. They start of their day canoeing and catching fish. As they paddle a great distance away from their lodge, they come across an aged, torn apart cottage. A dancing young, blonde, slim and completely nude woman on the balcony attracts their attention. In reaction, they paddle closer to the deck leading to the cottage. Getting ready to reel in, they spot an older man coming their way. The two men thought it would be a neighbourly thing to do if they stopped by for a hello. The men greet each other; then start off with a conversation concerning the fishing in the area. However, the old man happens to notices the continuous glances the men make at the balcony. The older man confronts them, and claims that the women they've been glancing at do not exist. He tells the two visitors, that she’s a ghost who has been haunting him for the last 9 years. As the two men do not believe in this scenario, the older man takes them to the balcony for their own proof. Once the reach the upper level, they find an empty space of rotted floors and fallen plaster from the walls. After no sight of the naked woman, the two men in shock insist they leave and head home. Later on, as the men don’t feel safe at the lodge alone decide to have dinner out. At the restaurant, they come across a man, appearing to be around the same age as the previous older man and start a conversation. The two men couldn’t help but to unleash what they have possibly just seen and ask the man if he has seen her as well. The man states that he surely has, and starts telling the story behind her. The man goes on telling them how the woman was the older man’s wife, in which she has been haunting him for several years. Concluding his story, about how the poor guy couldn’t stand anymore of the torture and not even a year later, the husband had hung himself in the room leading to the balcony. This resolves the men to sum up that they have seen one ghost, and talked to another.