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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 07:59:06 -0800
From: Deborah.Wasserman@Ebay.Sun.COM (Deborah Wasserman)
To: obiwan@netcom.com
Subject: story and question
My mother told me these stories, she said there true. My aunts verified that they are true, when I asked them about it.
#1 (1940's)
When my mom was about 15 teen years old, her and her sisters
needed to use the bathroom, they lived on a ranch out in
Biola, California, my grandpa was a ranch hand. Anyway
my grandma used to feed just about everybody who live
close to them, mostly the weekends she'd make big pots
of meats, tortillas etc (we're hispanic). On this nite,
after all the neighbors left to go home,
my mom said it was about 1 in the morning, they had to
go use the outhouse, no indoor plumming, which was alittle
ways from the main house. She said the moon was out just
enough to lite the way, It was a little windy too.
When they were half way to the outhouse they looked up
and saw some one walking towards them down the path that
lead from the road, thinking it was their neighbor, who had
left something at there house that nite. My mom and her sisters
stopped to wait for him, they even waved to him. She said the
figure was wearing a long coat,with the lapels up and gloves,
also a big black hat, with a wide brim, they couldn't see his face.
they stood there chit chatting, wishing he would hurry up,
it was cold. When the man got closer they all turned to say
hi and got a good look at him. they still could not see a
face but when they look down at his feet, there were none,
the leaves were just swirling around where his feet were
suppose to be. They screamed and ran home with the figure
following, as fast as they could. My grandpa checked and
found nothing. My grandma said the rosery that nite.
My mom said they still don't know who or what that was
and will never forget it.
#2 Different house...(1940's)
My grandfather, who liked his beer, used to drink from what I hear alot, my grandma used to make homemade beer to try and keep him home, Ok even the cops knew him, instead of jail they used to bring him home "Mrs Juarez, we have Ireno again". Anyway there was also times that my grandfather would drive himself home. For about a year in this one house my grandfather said he would be driving along and about a block from his house he would see fire engulfing the house, he would get sober real fast and drive faster home, he said once he would get to the house the flames would move to the backyard, when he would walk/run to the back yard the fire would disappear into thin air. My grandfather would come in the house chalk white and scare. My mom said that finally my grandfather couldn't take anymore and they moved, he thought it was a omen of some kind, nobody else would see this, they thought he was just drunk. a year later, after they moved, they heard that the new owners were digging in the back yard for a well or something and they found 2 kegs (little) full of old coins worth a mint in those days. To this day my mom believes that the ghost fire was trying to tell my grandfather to dig in the back yard, instead they moved.
I believe my grandfather had ESP etc. because my mom has alot of these tales. when I have more time I will post them.
Debbie