Haunted Lubbock 2: More Ghost Stories from the Hub City - Allison Chandler

Descriere Haunted Lubbock 2: More Ghost Stories from the Hub City - Allison Chandler

\nLubbock has its share of urban myths, unexplainable events and ghostly legends. Some, like the Lubbock Lights, were well documented and cannot be disputed. Others are pure hogwash. For example, the prison house never belonged to a man who killed his family and built a walled house to punish himself for his evil deed. It was merely a house built of an uncommon design, and occupied by ordinary everyday people. Presumably people who grew tired of high school kids fulfilling dares by knocking on their doors at all hours of the night and driving by their home constantly to take photos. The Memphis man and the Levelland Highway hitchhiker are nothing more than optical illusions. And there is no record to support the stories that train passengers were once robbed atop the railroad trellis now known as Hells' Gate, their bodies thrown off the trellis if they had no money to give. Yes, Hell's Gate is a spooky place, especially at night. And yes, there have been documented cases of devil worshippers and animal sacrifices in the wooded area just east of it. But no one was ever hung from the trellis or thrown off of it. That isn't to say there aren't more believable ghost stories though. In the summer of 2013 I asked a simple question of Lubbock residents: Have you experienced anything of a ghostly nature which took place in or close to Lubbock? I expected at best a handful of responses. Instead, I got a landslide. Some of them were too outlandish to be believed. I had to go back and amend my original request by specifying that I only wanted true stories and not fiction or fairy tales. Someone asked me, What do you mean by true stories? My response: I don't want to hear the tired old tales we told around the campfire when we were children trying to scare each other. And I don't want to hear a story that you heard from a friend, who heard it from another friend, whose cousin heard it from his mailman. If you personally experienced something ghostly in Lubbock, or if someone very close to you, like a mom or a brother or your wife did, I want to hear about it. Those were the stories I was looking for. The first Haunted Lubbock book was published in late 2014. Submissions continued to roll in long after the book went to press. I put the late submissions aside, hoping to have enough someday to do a sequel. I finally got enough. As in the first book, I have not altered these stories, except to correct some of the grammatical and spelling errors. These a

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