Paranormal Story #2

ANOTHER TRUE Story

1985

This one is plain weird and STILL has me shook up when I think about it! Ok, so it’s a family reuinion in Amarillo Texas and me and my cousin Billy Joe Rippetto (pronounced “rip-pet-toe but the annoying kid I knew back then was always pronouncing his name as “rip-a-toe…” like ripping a toe off or something…hahaha!) were wandering around my great grandma’s weird house. Ok, this house used to be on a HUGE plot of land until part of Amarillo grew in around the place. At one time, it was literally a one-room shack of a place. Over the years, it was built onto NUMEROUS times…and poorly I might add. There were several rooms that used to face outside via windows that were now built around to a point where you could look from one room into the next via the windows that used to face out-doors. There were curtains on some of them to reduce some of that freakiness…Anyway, me and Billy Joe were in my great grandpa’s old room, a sorta creepy place in the house since he was long dead at this point, yet his room was still fully intact with his stuff…There was some new furniture added, but by and large, what you saw in 1985 had been there since the early 1970s…So, we’re in this creepy room in this weird house when….at the edge of the bed, we see the top of a 10 gallon cowboy hat glide about half of the length of the other side of the bed we were standing near…Thinking it was one of our little cousins playing around, we rounded the foot of the bed…ONLY TO SEE THE TEN GALLON COWBOY HAT DROP STRAIGHT DOWN ONTO A PAIR OF COWBOY BOOTS…THERE WAS NOTHING BETWEEN THE HAT AND THE BOOTS!!!! My cousin Billy Joe lifted that hat up while I looked under the bed thinking it HAD to be our little cousin…and maybe he was just fast enough to zip under the bed leaving behind the hat and boots…There was NOTHING under the bed but rotted old floor boards….I felt COLD and me and Billy Joe zapped out of that room screaming our heads off in fright…I literally remember the feeling of leaping about half of my height back then and jumping the hell out of that room! So, we get to the kitchen where everybody’s getting ready for lunch and tell our story…Most of the relatives shake their heads and tell us to “quit playing in the kitchen!” Everyone except our old 2^nd Uncle Leslie who starts wagging his finger with his jaw dropped. See, Leslie (who was admittedly slow…borderline retarded actually) actually lived in this house with his mom…my great grandma. He just stands there wagging that finger and the room goes pretty silent…My grandpa asks Leslie if he’s “ok.” He turns and goes into the living room where my great grandma is…and we hear him just BREAK DOWN SOBBING, “THEY SAW IT TOO….THEY SAW IT TOO!!!!!” Me and Billy Joe were just kids, so we were kinda jerks about it with an “I told y’all so” attitude…even in response to our uncle literally crying his eyes out over it…Later that night, we were given the option to choose a room to sleep in or sleep in a camper…Me and Billy Joe rushed that camper so fast we almost ripped the door off of its hinges…haha! To this day, I have NO idea what it was that we saw, but it STILL freaks me out…