Chuckleberryfinn
Paranormal Maven
I have discussed this event in a few other threads but never in detail. Of all of my experiences, this is the one that convinces me of the reality of paranormal phenomena in general because I have no doubt about the reality of what I saw.
I was a teenager, about 15 or 16, living in the outskirts of Lytle, TX, a tiny farming community with a population of about 2500 or so. Around us was a beautiful countryside, hundreds and hundreds of acres of prickly pears and western diamondback rattle snakes and mesquite trees and humidity and dirt roads. I fondly remember wandering through that land with my pellet gun, putting holes in birds and wild rabbits, feeding them to my dogs, tracking wild hogs, deer, and coyotes. The life of a youngster in such an environment is truly awesome.
I arrived home from a friend’s house midday, it must have been summertime. My parents had not issued me any keys to the house, so I was locked out of the house since no one was around to let me in. Hoping to pass the time and to win points with my father, I decided to mow the grass.
In our front lawn, there were two big strips of grass between which ran the driveway. Facing the road, I was mowing the left strip when suddenly there came running within ten to twenty feet of me a full blown apparition, moving fast as if it were running. I could make out the shape of a person, two legs and arms, a midsection and a head, though blurry and dark colored, like a three dimensional shadow or a pillar of night in the day. It ran across the front yard and then down the road and around a corner, I could see it running all the way down the road.
It was not a hallucination, I had never smoked pot or had any alcohol, I was not and have never been psychotic, I did not inhale any of the gas fumes from the lawn mower. These are all typical objections my skeptical friends will offer, I must have been huffing the gas fumes without realizing it, etc. I saw what I saw, I have no doubt about that, it was entirely out of normal experience and I will never forget it. It was amazing.
I was a teenager, about 15 or 16, living in the outskirts of Lytle, TX, a tiny farming community with a population of about 2500 or so. Around us was a beautiful countryside, hundreds and hundreds of acres of prickly pears and western diamondback rattle snakes and mesquite trees and humidity and dirt roads. I fondly remember wandering through that land with my pellet gun, putting holes in birds and wild rabbits, feeding them to my dogs, tracking wild hogs, deer, and coyotes. The life of a youngster in such an environment is truly awesome.
I arrived home from a friend’s house midday, it must have been summertime. My parents had not issued me any keys to the house, so I was locked out of the house since no one was around to let me in. Hoping to pass the time and to win points with my father, I decided to mow the grass.
In our front lawn, there were two big strips of grass between which ran the driveway. Facing the road, I was mowing the left strip when suddenly there came running within ten to twenty feet of me a full blown apparition, moving fast as if it were running. I could make out the shape of a person, two legs and arms, a midsection and a head, though blurry and dark colored, like a three dimensional shadow or a pillar of night in the day. It ran across the front yard and then down the road and around a corner, I could see it running all the way down the road.
It was not a hallucination, I had never smoked pot or had any alcohol, I was not and have never been psychotic, I did not inhale any of the gas fumes from the lawn mower. These are all typical objections my skeptical friends will offer, I must have been huffing the gas fumes without realizing it, etc. I saw what I saw, I have no doubt about that, it was entirely out of normal experience and I will never forget it. It was amazing.
