As a child, I was scared shitless the majority of the time. Why do you ask? I happened to have an insane older sister that just happened to have experienced every occurrence of the supernatural ever encountered by man. At one time she claims to have even got into a Greco Roman wrestling match with the Chupacabra before it had even moved north into the U.S. from the south of the border. My brother had witnesses this so called encountered and confirmed the beast was a baby opossum with no teeth gumming a worm it had found.
Growing up, we were always assailed by horrendous stories of ghost traipsing through our house at all hours of the day and night. She even conveyed to me one morning that the previous night she had heard an otherworldly entity moving furniture around downstairs. This did not frighten me so much since as I came to discover the spirit had great interior fashion sense and the living room always looked great. Now, if I could only pull out the Ouija board and attempt to get the spirit to work in the kitchen, life would have been great.
Of course I could never understand why a ghost or ghosts haunted our house since no one had died there. The only reason for one moving to such a remote location was the property they were haunting at the time must have had the rent raised significantly or they were just lousy ghosts. I have heard the theory countless times that ghosts are the dead that do not know they are dead. If this were true would you not just walk in on ghosts performing everyday tasks? You open the bathroom door and there is a ghost on the crapper or you walk in the living room and one is sitting on the couch watching a baseball game with his hand down his ectoplasmic pants? My sister said once she walked in on a female spirit getting dressed and the spirit asked her “If strips made her look too tall?” See you will never escape it.
There was the “Death Knocks” incident that still resonates in my head and I will never forget. The phone call was received one day and my sister informs me she had heard the “Death Knocks”. I, in earnest, asked what the Hell those were. She said as a girl, upon visiting my grandmothers home, they had heard the death knocks and Grandmother had said someone was going to die, No SHIT! Sure someone, somewhere in the world was going to die, what a REVELATION! I think my sister misheard my grandmother. She had really said “Meth Rocks!” (My sister did not know she was an addict). In latter years she heard the death knocks again and I investigated and found it was the neighbor’s over sexed St. Bernard humping the statue of St Francis on the back doorstep. Well in the end my Grand mother was correct, 32 years after hearing the death knocks my grandfather passed away. Damn, that sent shivers up my spine!
The last incident that I discussed with my sister was that she had a 7 foot tall, reptilian demon. At first, I thought she had mistaken this 7 foot reptile for a demon and it was really the son of Godzilla. I asked my sister how she knew he was a demon. She gave me a “What else could it be?” look. Well it could have been a wayward furry. I could not believe she had not asked him any questions. She of course got pissed at me. I told her I would like to know how he got assigned to her. Where on the scale of demons does he rank. How does the hierarchy of Hell work and how is it really to be a denizen of Hell? But all he does is walk around, sit, brood, read Cosmopolitan magazine, watch reality shows with has been celebrities in them and says nothing. Being a demon surely must SUCK!
She also believes herself to be psychic but that could not be further from the truth. She spent immense amounts of money on tarot cards, at least she thought they were but some unscrupulous bastard had sold her a deck of “Old Maid” cards which were useless except when the small ones came around and playing the game kept them quiet. She tried to read my fortune once and proclaimed my name would be changed to Coco Shanell but she was SO wrong. I had it changed to Coco Krisp.
When I think of my sister I am reminded of the scene in Ghostbusters when Ernie Hudson is interviewing for the job and after being read a series of supernatural events and entities he is to believe in, he replies ‘If it has a paycheck, I will believe in anything.” Unfortunately my sister believes in everything with NO paycheck! My favorite story she related to me had to do with astral projecting and ended up in the body of a male pit bull which was licking his groin. Well for some that would be a God send.
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