'I didn't hear anything but about five minutes before I woke you I just found myself standing here' at the window,' McLeod whispered back.'There was a terrible-looking man standing just outside Sampson's window. He was very tall and very thin ... and ... he didn't really look like a living person at all. More like a ghost. He seemed to be making a sign to Sampson to go with him. That's all I saw before I woke you up.'