Ghosts
I was suddenly awakened this morning by someone calling my name. Yes, I know. It was probably just a dream. But, the dream woke me up just the same. It got me to thinking about ghosts. I have probably mentioned some of my ghostly experiences before, but this time I am just going to list them all in one place with brief descriptions.
- Castle ghost- As a young child, I lived for awhile in a cold water flat in the basement of a small English castle. One day, I went to put some washcloths on the bed for my mother. Something picked me up off the ground. When I screamed, it put me down and disappeared. I was so traumatized by the event that my dad got permission to move the family to different housing. The first time I went trick-or-treating back in the USA, I saw one of those black costumes with the skeleton painted on front and totally freaked out.
- Dorm ghost- I went back to the dorm early after Christmas break once. I had a key to the building as an RA. One morning, I heard someone having a horrible coughing fit in the restroom. Knowing that I should be the only one in the building, I went to see which of the guys had come back early. I walked back toward the showers. The coughing stopped. There was no way except through me that anyone could have gone, but the shower stalls were all empty.
- Pale boy ghost- My sons and I were walking along a trail that cuts from the HEB on Guilbeau to Mainland following a creek bed. We saw a pale sickly looking boy sitting in the trail in front of us. I said hello and kept walking. A few minutes later, the same damned kid was standing in the trail in front of us. This happened two more times. There was no way that kid could crash through the woods undetected and keep getting ahead of us. The boys were terrified. We got to Mainland and whenever we looked towards that area behind the buildings, we saw him again. Now, he seemed like he was following us. I didn't want to go in the house when we got home so I let the boys get an ice cream from the truck as it passed. While they were sitting there, I looked across the street and saw the boy watching us through the windows of a van that parked there. My oldest son started calling insults to him. I quickly put a stop to that. When I felt confident that he was no longer there, we went inside. We were sitting on the couch in the den. Suddenly, the antique gumball machine exploded sending gumballs and glass all over the room. Nobody was near it. Nobody had touched it.
- Trail ghost- While hiking a trail at Kerrville Schreiner Park, I saw a strangely dressed boy on the trail ahead of me holding a stick. I heard a female voice calling from the right. They boy turned and waved the stick at whoever was there. I looked in that direction. When I glanced back toward the boy, he was gone. There was no other trail for him to take. I should have heard him, if he were walking in the woods. When I got closer to where he had been standing, a stick was see-sawing balanced on a tree branch.
- Camper ghost- I was at Lockhart SP. I was across the golf course from the RV loop. I saw my little camper surrounded by huge RVs and thought it would make a funny photo. I took a picture. I kept zooming in and taking another shot to show the distance. When I got home from my trip, I looked at all my photos. There is an image of a ghostly girl looking out one of the windows of my camper. She is in every photo.