hauntedliving

Back in the 60’s when I was a very young girl I would spend two weeks each summer with my Paternal Grandparents in rural Heard County.  From where they lived I could walk to the Alabama line.  The nearest town was Franklin Georgia which was about seven miles away. 

From the end of my visit until I returned Little Murr (short for little Mother) would save all the Reader’s Digest and Christian magazines for me to read. I have always been a book worm and would go crazy without something to read.  I would spend hours in the old swing on the front porch reading.  I would have a glass of iced tea or lemonade on the old crossed leg table beside the swing.  The only sounds were the birds, a Bob White, and the buzzing of insects.

During this particular summer one of the Reader’s Digest I was reading had an article on UFO’s.  I knew what UFO’s were from all the horror movies on TV but until that day I did not know they were real.  Images of evil aliens or monsters pouring out of UFO’s filled me with fear.  I quickly put it out of my mind when my cousin Garrett dropped by.

The only things on my mind when I went into the outhouse the next day were spiders, wasp, and snakes.  Those were three things I did not want to share the outhouse with.  I had just settled down to do my business when suddenly a loud sound came from outside.  I realized the noise was coming from above me.  My first thought was a plane was about to land in the backyard then another thought popped into my head.  It had to be a UFO!  I pulled up my underwear and slammed open the door of the outhouse.  I ran for the house, screaming and the entire time looking up into the sky.  That is until I ran smack into the back of the house.  I bounced off the wall and fell flat on my back.  While I lay there fighting to get my breath back into my lungs I spotted the helicopter I mistook for a UFO. I was too embarrassed to tell anyone why I really screamed so I told them a snake had been in the outhouse.  Right then and there I made a vow to lay off the horror movies for a few years.

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