In all sincerity and honesty, there may not be a part 2 or part 3 or any more parts to today's blog. This is NOT the blog I had indended to do. It is not the one I told a friend I was to do. Maybe I am over-reacting a little bit but lets look at if for a moment.... that is if this blog can be completed.
In my sophomore year at Emmanuel College I decided to do a research paper on superstition. One afternoon I went to the library and began getting sources together and making notes. As dinner time approached I deciced to take a break, go home, eat, and return to the liabrary. During my absence from the liabrary, dinner was delayed, I had a flat tire, the lights on my car failed to work, and the car almost would not start. Upon my return to the library later that evening one of the first sources I found stated a warning. If anyone tries to learn of superstition or the work of the devil, then the devil will do all in his power to keep that person from learning his ways. Were my delays only coincidence or were they the work of the devil? You tell me.
At about the same time in my life I developed an interest in the Ouija board. In the process of explaining it to a friend of my mom's I decided to demonstrate it to her. She and I sat down at the board with a third person present. We began aksing questions about the third person. These questions were things which we would have no way of knowing ourselves. The board answeres every question we asked about the third person present. Neither the other person on the board nor I could have had any factual informaton that we were asking, yet we got near 100% correcrt answers.
Shortly after that I became engaged to the lady to whom I have been married for over forty years. While we were dating she told me of a dream she had regarding her grandfather. In the dream she saw his casket coming out of the ground in the front yard of her grandmother's home. He was burried in a local cemetery. A coworker who had some knowledge of the occult advised us that the grandfather was trying to communicate with her and advised us to visit her grandfather's grave at night. We went to the cemetery where her grandfather was burried. We went to the section of the cemetery where he was burried.. He was burried to the side of the only pine tree in that secrtion of the cemetery. When we got there, we found the tree, but there was NO grave anywhere near the tree. We walked around and looked at every toombstone in the area, and could not locate his grave.. She kept telling me that he was burried right there and would point to a spot of grass near the tree, but no grave was there.. The next day, in the light of day, we returned to the cemetery and found his grave in the exact spot she had pointed to the night before where no grave had been.
A few night later she and I took out the Ouija Board and started clowning around with it. We got a few vague responses but noting of signifiance that could prove or disprove its effectiveness until it spelled out very clearly, "Get married do not wait". Laughngly we both accused each other of manipulating the board. I asked who was sending the message to us and the board replied, "Bill" neiter of us knew anyone named Bill. Suddenly she jumped up and shouted, "Bill. I know Bill" He had been a member of a church she had attened a few years earlier in another state. He was a young man who had died unexpectedly from complications from having his appendix removed.
The Ouija Board disappeared. Neiter of us would admit to throwing it away. You tell me what happened to it.
In 1983 we built a new home. We were its first occupants. I do not recall if it was a Saturday or Sunday afternoon she and I were in the great room of the house. Almost at the same time we asked each other, "did you see that"? We both had seen an elderly thin lady enter the front door of our home and move silently and quickly down the hall into the bedroom area. We both described her as wearing a white gown or dress with small pink or purple flowers and with long brown hair. By the time we had focused on her appearance, she had disappeared right before our eyes in the hallway of our new home. We never saw here again. A few months later a new road was cut in our neighborhood for the building of more houses in the subdivision. People began to report sightings of an old lady at night in the woods just off this new road in an area about a five minute walk from our home. We looked there many times but never saw her again.
From there, we moved into an older estate make up of three houses in a family compound. We rented out two of the house which were basically in our back yard. Several residents of the houses there reported strange sightings and unexplianable events taking place there. Earlier tonight I had started a blog exclusively about that place. About midway into it my keyboard locked up and while my computer did not become non-responsive, it would respond in a different ways than i asked it to. The command keys of the keyboard did commands not requested and would not do as I requested. The blog completely disappeared from my screen. That brought memories of that night in north Georgia at Emmanuel college working on the research paper and the source saying the devil will do all in his power to stop one for seeing his ways.
At some point in the future I may get back to that blog. If I do, it will be part 2 of the hauntings or maybe parts 1 and 2 but i will make that decision at another time
Good Night, God bless, and Happy Halloween
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