Volume 6 , Issue 43

Ghostly Glowing Tombstone & Flashing Red Light

"I don't know if this is still a teenage tradition or not, but when I was school-aged and living in Alva -- after dark, we used to watch for the eerie lights of the cemetery. We could parallel park on the east side of the city swimming pool, and line our car up with a certain bench just inside the pool's fence. If we did it just right, we could see two strange things to the west in the cemetery. One was a tombstone that appeared to glow in the dark with a soft white light. The other was a tombstone that flashed a red light on and off -- on and off -- on and off. Further investigation by forging into the cemetery to look for these tombstones always produced nothing. It was like the tombstones were warning us to keep away. In order to see these two spectacles, you had to park 'just right' or they were blocked by the trees. Someone, before my time, figured out that the swimming pool benches were the way to remember where to stop, turn your head, and look west. I saw these things on several occasions and had totally forgotten about them until I got your request for Halloween stories. I never did know what caused them... probably a street light reflecting off a particular tombstone could cause the glowing one, but I can't come up with a logical explanation for the red flashing one! I'd love to know if today's kids still know about this." -- Scott   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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