From: Anonymous
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Omaha, Nebraska's Hummel Park
Date: Thursday, January 20, 2005 10:06 PM
Hiya ObiWan!
I was born in Omaha, and have lived here for going on 32 years, so I have heard all the rumours and stories about Hummel Park, and have been there quite a few times.
The "morphing steps" that Jeff in the first email wrote you about are called "the Hundred Steps." The local legend about them is that you can count them as many times as you like, you won't get the same amount of steps each time. There are four, I think, sets of steps going up to a flat concrete round on the top of the four sided hill. It IS a site known for Satanist activity, however.
I heard the stories about the Albinos living in the park. I also heard the same thing that Ed heard about them - that it wasn't true about a colony of albinos living in the park. I've never seen an albino in the park, and as I've said, I've been there many times in the past 14 years (1991-2005).
On the road to the park, there is a tall tree that looks like it's spelling out the word "HI." You have to pay close attention to the road going by on the OPPD side of the road or you'll miss it.
My own experience in the park:
It was late September, 1991. I was 18 years old then. I had just gotten married about a week before. Late one night, my husband's cousin Ronnie, his girlfriend and a friend of Gary's (my ex-husband) named Shawn, came and collected my husband and myself from our home in South Omaha and one of the places we went was Hummel Park. I had never been there before in my life but had heard a few of the rumours. I had no prior opinion about the place, actually, so I wasn't expecting anything out of the ordinary to happen.
Ok, so we went to Hummel and stopped on a moonlit gravel road deep inside the park. Gary, Shawn and I exited the van as Ronnie and his girlfriend, Wendy, were given some privacy. Gary and Shawn were standing alongside the van, goofing off, while I sat in the grass on the side of the road (cold gravel on your butt is uncomfortable). We'd been outside the van about a good half an hour when I heard a woman give a long, echoing scream of what sounded like fear and pain in the distance. I asked Gary and Shawn if they heard it. They of course asked me what I was talking about. Then it happened again, and this time they heard it the same as I did. At that time, regardless of what Ronnie and Wendy were doing, we all hurried to get into the van and drive off as quick as we could. Gary and Shawn were more scared than I was. They thought that the Albinos were torturing someone, I thought that it was more likely that it was the resident Satanists.
As we drove out of the park, following that gravel road which was increasingly bracketed by trees as we followed it, there was someone following us out of the park. As with one of the other accounts on your site, the car disappeared once we got far enough out. Didn't turn off on another road, as this road we were following didn't have any turn offs that I could see, it just was there one second, gone the next.
I have since been there many times during the day and at night. The only odd thing that I have experienced since my first visit was that I got an uneasy, evil-like feeling at many places in the park, including the top of the Hundred Steps. Considering that Satanists (the kind that really do exist and you don't know who they are and they're not as nice as Anton LeVay Satanists) are extremely active in the area of the park, that's not something I see as really odd.
Oh, and by the way, the Police DO patrol Hummel and they DO get out of their cruisers, as I found out late one night in 1996, with my friends Cindy and Chris. And the ticket I got for trespassing was a fat $76. It was Chris's idea to go into the park as I remember.
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