Dark Shadows and Creepy Places

Excerpt from Larry Wilson's forth coming book

Dark Shadows and Creepy Places

 When I began investigating the paranormal, I was warned, by a psychic medium, to make sure that investigating the supernatural was something that I really wanted to risk doing.

 I was told that the more I investigate and delve into things that are supernatural in nature, the wider the door to the other-side would open, and I would see and experience things that I may not want to see, and that I wouldn't understand!

I was also told, that "I wouldn't have to go looking for these things", that "they would come to me". Well, my psychic friend was right! She also explained that once the door is opened, it may not be as easy to close as it was to open in the first place. So far, she has been right on all accounts!

There are so many strange and unexplained mysteries that are reported around our planet on a daily basis. Things so bizarre, that even if we read about them in a Stephen King novel, we would all shake our heads in disbelief. I had one such experience, in the spring of  2009, while in Arizona. If you remember the old TV series, The Twilight Zone, you'll remember host Rod Serling's great opening monologue, which is so fitting to what I am about to share with you. So much so, that I believe that I had my own experience with the  real "Twilight Zone!"

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone."- ROD SERLING

My wife and I were in Arizona, to watch my son Cory, play baseball for his college team. We were in Chandler Arizona, and the incident I am about to describe, occurred on the morning that we were leaving to return home. It was early, around 5:30 a.m.. I had just pulled into a very large gas station, with many kiosk and fuel pumps to fill up with gas. 

Pulling up to the island closest to the convenience store on the premisses, I parked on the right hand side of the kiosk. Stepping out of our vehicle, I pulled opened the door to the fuel compartment which was located on the drivers side of our SUV. I opened the door, and removed the gas cap, then placed the nozzle from the pump in the fuel tank. 

After doing this, I turned and pressed the appropriate buttons on the keypad on the fuel pump to start fueling my vehicle.  I noticed an older Cadillac pull up on the opposite side of the kiosk, and stop one pump ahead of the pump I was using. So the Cadillac, was on the left side of the kiosk that I was parked by, but one pump further up. I watched as the drivers door of the Cadillac swung open. I saw a very young,  attractive lady, who I estimate to be in her late twenties, step out of the car. She was thin, and very tall. Her hair was very long, and beautiful. It was a shinny black in color. She had a dark  complexion and I surmised that she might be Native American. The girl now out of her car, swung the drivers side door closed.  She caught my attention for two very good reasons. One, it was a very cool or what some would call a cold morning for Arizona. I know the  temperature was fifty-nine degrees, because I had checked the temperature on the dashboard of our vehicle just before I had exited it. The lady was wearing a very skimpy denim two-piece bathing suit, which didn’t seem appropriate for the cool morning temperature, but looked very attractive on her. The second and most obvious reason that I noticed the young lady, was that she was drop dead gorgeous!  After she slammed the door of the Cadillac shut, she hopped up on the kiosk, took one step, hopped down off of the kiosk, then jogged approximately fifteen yards into the convenience store. I distinctly remember watching the door of the vehicle slam shut immediately after she exited it. That I am one-hundred percent positive of!

At this point, I turned around and checked the nozzle that I had placed in the fuel tank, to make sure that it was securely in the tank. This took maybe three or four seconds at the most. I turned back around, and as I did this, I noticed the drivers door of the Cadillac swing open again, just like it had done moments before! I watched and saw the same young lady,  wearing the same skimpy denim two piece bathing suit,  with a beautiful dark completion, long shinny black hair, step out of the car, swing the door closed again, hop up on the kiosk, take a step, hop down off the kiosk, then jog the fifteen yards into the convenience store. I again watched as the door close behind her. 

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Witnessing this, caused me to shake my head in disbelief. So I quickly finished pumping the gas, and hurried into the convenience store, to see if possibly the lady had a twin sister, who for some reason, may have exited the vehicle from the drivers side. 

As I walked into the convenience, and as you can imagine, the lady was easy to spot.  She was selecting some food items, from the pastry isle, but was alone. I made a point to walk around the store, to check for her possible identical twin, but there was no one else in the store that even remotely looked like the girl. I paid for my fuel, then returned to my vehicle.

When I got in,  I asked my wife if she had seen the girl that was in the Cadillac? Kathy immediately said that she did and mentioned how she must be freezing in the outfit that she was wearing! I agreed, then asked her, how many times, she saw the lady get out of the car and enter the store. “Once” she exclaimed! Then Kathy asked me why. I explained what I had seen, and Kathy again reiterated that she had only seen the lady go in once. 

We waited and watched as the lady come out of the store, and when she did, she came out alone. As she pulled away from the station, I could see that she was the only person in the car!

So, what did I see, and was I suppose to see it?  Were the stranger and I some how spiritually or supernaturally connected to the point, that I knew what she was going to do, before she did it? Was there a time slip, that I somehow, became entangled in? It didn’t seem to be the  classic case of Déjà vu in which, a person, has the strong sensation that an event or experience being experienced has been experienced before, whether it has actually happened or not, because I had just witnessed this particular event two times in a matter of moments! Did I possibly catch the proverbial fork in the road in this ladies free will and saw both of her decisions? If that was the case, then did I see the alternative choice, turn into a parallel reality. 

Even if my conclusion or theory is wrong, the even bigger question that I have had since I witnessed the event in 2009, is! If this is a case of witnessing a doppelganger, where did either the first or second person that I witnessed go? Plus, when I went inside the convenience store, which lady did I see? The first, or the second lady!

Larry Wilson's third release... DARK SHADOWS AND CREEPY PLACES-Coming soon!