Excerpt from my
latest book
“Dark 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", because, "they would
come to and find me!" Well, my psychic friend was right!
She also explained that once the door to the
supernatural 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 the globe 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 and laugh.
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 may of 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
The story I am referring to begins when my
wife and I were in Arizona, to watch Cory, our son, 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 to
Illinois.
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 premises, 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 rear driver’s side of our SUV. I opened
the door, and removed the gas cap, then placed the nozzle from the pump into
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 driver’s 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 long, and beautiful. It was a shiny black in color. She had a golden completion
and I surmised that she might be Native American.
The girl now out of her car swung the driver’s
side door closed.
She caught my attention for two very good
reasons. First, it was a very cool or what I 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 she looked very attractive none the less.
The second and most obvious reason that I
noticed the young lady was that she was totally 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, and
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 sure of!
At this point, I turned around to check 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 driver’s 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 shiny
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 the convenience store 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 driver’s side.
I walked into the convenience store to pay
for my fuel, but more importantly, to see if I could spot the lady and see if
maybe she had a twin. Wearing the skimpy
outfit, she was easy to spot. I spotted her selecting some food items from the
pastry isle, and she was alone. I made a point to walk around the store, looking
for her possible identical twin, but there was no one else in the store that
even remotely resembled the girl. I paid for my fuel, and then returned to my
vehicle.
When I got in our vehicle, I
asked my wife if she had seen the girl that was in the Cadillac go into the
store? Kathy immediately said that she did, and mentioned how she must be
freezing in the outfit that she was wearing! I agreed, and then asked her, how
many times, she had seen 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 walked 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 supposed to see it? Were the stranger and I somehow 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?
The incident didn’t seem to
be the classic case of Deja vu in which, a person, has the strong sensation that an event or experience taking
place, has been experienced before. No matter, if it has actually happened or
not. But the event I had just witnessed, took place, two times in a matter of
moments!
Did I possibly catch the proverbial fork in the road of this
ladies free will and perhaps see her alternate life manifest into the physical?
If that was the case, did I see, or actually not see the alternative choice,
turn into a parallel reality.
Did one of the dark haired ladies, vanish into another reality, or
rejoin, her original self-undetected by me?
Those are the
biggest questions that I have had, since I witnessed the event in 2009!
If this was a case of witnessing a doppelganger, where did either
the first or second person that I witnessed go? When I went inside the
convenience store, which lady did I see, the first one, or the second one?
So after thirteen years of investigating the strangeness that the
supernatural has to offer, my journey to uncover and explain these mysteries continues! Exploring the unexplained, leaves me feeling like
Christopher Columbus, who set out to explore and find a new territory, but
wasn’t sure where he would end up!
The supernatural so far has been a moving target! Every time I think I
have figured out a pattern to a particular type of haunting, event or location,
the force that is the supernatural throws out another piece of the puzzle that
doesn’t seem to fit, which then changes the entire picture.
So I continue searching for answers to my questions. Answers that I probably
will never find but I continue my search nonetheless.
