ay of hunting it wasn't something I enjoyed and never went small game hunting again. The cabin is small, but really neat inside with the exposed wooden walls and the plank flooring. The TV set looks like something from the late 60s with the huge wooden cabinet. Aunt Virginia wanted to make lunch for her two sisters to celebrate her own birthday as well as her younger sister Lois. My Aunt Lois has been featured in my stories before, since we are only a year apart and we spent a few years together on Prince St. in the mid 40s. Lunch consisted of fried chicken, baked in the oven, applesauce and the best corn pudding I have ever eaten. Found out that my cousin Susan, who lives across the road from her mom on Peach Lane, made it for her mom, since her mom doesn't have a blender. Lunch was great, but the conversation was even better. We talked about the past, as usual, since they can remember that better than the present, and then Aunt Virginia told us about getting laid off from her job as a tour guide at the Amish Farm in Strasburg and filing for unemployment. Actually, Susan did the filing for her. She worked there for 41 years. And ..... she just turned 84. And ..... she now collects unemployment! What a story. Then I asked her how many years ago Uncle Bob died. She told me and then said, "I've seen him twice since then." "You What!!" I asked. "Yeah, a couple years ago, I was down by the garage door and looked out to the fence over there and saw this man standing there watching the house. He looked like he was in his 30s. I turned away and then realized it was Bob. By the time I turned around again, he was gone. Same thing happened again a few years later." Then Lois speaks up and says, "Yeah, Norma was sitting in my chair at work the other day." Norma is my Uncle John's sister and Lois' sister-in-law who had died three weeks ago. Lois continued, "I walked past my office, glanced in and saw her sitting at my desk, and continued down the hall. I realized it was her and by the time I got back to my office, she was gone." Now they're freaking me out! Big time!! Carol then said that she had read somewhere that people experience paranormal activity and may see ghosts from the past. Usually the people you see are in their 30s no matter what age they were when they died. Then I thought ...... I wonder if seeing ghosts is hereditary! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - the paranormal sisters from the left: Virginia, Dorothea,and Lois
Sunday, April 17, 2011
The "Now, They're Freaking Me Out" Story
It was an ordinary day. Carol and I had just dropped off my mom at Moravian Manor in Lititz, PA where she lives. We had spent the day visiting for lunch with her two sisters on Peach Lane in Strasburg. Her middle sister, Virginia, lives in a log cabin on Peach Lane that she and my Uncle Bob had built in the late 1980s. It sits on Uncle Bob's family farm, where he grew up. Quite a few acres. Uncle Bob died in the 1990s, but Aunt Virginia continues to live in the log cabin which overlooks the old farm and meadow below her house. The farm is now occupied by an Amish family who continue to farm the property. We enjoyed siting in her sunroom watching the Amish children playing and all the Amish buggies moving back and forth on the road in front of the farm. Uncle Bob took me hunting one time on the property when I was a young teenager. Only took two shots the entire day and managed to shoot a pheasant and a rabbit. Lucky! Decided after the day of hunting it wasn't something I enjoyed and never went small game hunting again. The cabin is small, but really neat inside with the exposed wooden walls and the plank flooring. The TV set looks like something from the late 60s with the huge wooden cabinet. Aunt Virginia wanted to make lunch for her two sisters to celebrate her own birthday as well as her younger sister Lois. My Aunt Lois has been featured in my stories before, since we are only a year apart and we spent a few years together on Prince St. in the mid 40s. Lunch consisted of fried chicken, baked in the oven, applesauce and the best corn pudding I have ever eaten. Found out that my cousin Susan, who lives across the road from her mom on Peach Lane, made it for her mom, since her mom doesn't have a blender. Lunch was great, but the conversation was even better. We talked about the past, as usual, since they can remember that better than the present, and then Aunt Virginia told us about getting laid off from her job as a tour guide at the Amish Farm in Strasburg and filing for unemployment. Actually, Susan did the filing for her. She worked there for 41 years. And ..... she just turned 84. And ..... she now collects unemployment! What a story. Then I asked her how many years ago Uncle Bob died. She told me and then said, "I've seen him twice since then." "You What!!" I asked. "Yeah, a couple years ago, I was down by the garage door and looked out to the fence over there and saw this man standing there watching the house. He looked like he was in his 30s. I turned away and then realized it was Bob. By the time I turned around again, he was gone. Same thing happened again a few years later." Then Lois speaks up and says, "Yeah, Norma was sitting in my chair at work the other day." Norma is my Uncle John's sister and Lois' sister-in-law who had died three weeks ago. Lois continued, "I walked past my office, glanced in and saw her sitting at my desk, and continued down the hall. I realized it was her and by the time I got back to my office, she was gone." Now they're freaking me out! Big time!! Carol then said that she had read somewhere that people experience paranormal activity and may see ghosts from the past. Usually the people you see are in their 30s no matter what age they were when they died. Then I thought ...... I wonder if seeing ghosts is hereditary! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - the paranormal sisters from the left: Virginia, Dorothea,and Lois
ay of hunting it wasn't something I enjoyed and never went small game hunting again. The cabin is small, but really neat inside with the exposed wooden walls and the plank flooring. The TV set looks like something from the late 60s with the huge wooden cabinet. Aunt Virginia wanted to make lunch for her two sisters to celebrate her own birthday as well as her younger sister Lois. My Aunt Lois has been featured in my stories before, since we are only a year apart and we spent a few years together on Prince St. in the mid 40s. Lunch consisted of fried chicken, baked in the oven, applesauce and the best corn pudding I have ever eaten. Found out that my cousin Susan, who lives across the road from her mom on Peach Lane, made it for her mom, since her mom doesn't have a blender. Lunch was great, but the conversation was even better. We talked about the past, as usual, since they can remember that better than the present, and then Aunt Virginia told us about getting laid off from her job as a tour guide at the Amish Farm in Strasburg and filing for unemployment. Actually, Susan did the filing for her. She worked there for 41 years. And ..... she just turned 84. And ..... she now collects unemployment! What a story. Then I asked her how many years ago Uncle Bob died. She told me and then said, "I've seen him twice since then." "You What!!" I asked. "Yeah, a couple years ago, I was down by the garage door and looked out to the fence over there and saw this man standing there watching the house. He looked like he was in his 30s. I turned away and then realized it was Bob. By the time I turned around again, he was gone. Same thing happened again a few years later." Then Lois speaks up and says, "Yeah, Norma was sitting in my chair at work the other day." Norma is my Uncle John's sister and Lois' sister-in-law who had died three weeks ago. Lois continued, "I walked past my office, glanced in and saw her sitting at my desk, and continued down the hall. I realized it was her and by the time I got back to my office, she was gone." Now they're freaking me out! Big time!! Carol then said that she had read somewhere that people experience paranormal activity and may see ghosts from the past. Usually the people you see are in their 30s no matter what age they were when they died. Then I thought ...... I wonder if seeing ghosts is hereditary! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy. PS - the paranormal sisters from the left: Virginia, Dorothea,and Lois
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