Every summer we Flanagans drive from Lindenhurst, New York, to visit relatives in Hilldale, Pennsylvania, for the Fourth of July.
All usually goes well, except when it’s Uncle Leo’s turn to drive, like last year.
“West Milford!?!?” Aunt Bernice shrieked. “No human being can get here from Route 80!!”
We stopped at a local beanery on Clinton Road to ask for directions.
“Stranger,” the proprietor intoned when I requested help. “We don’t cotton to outsiders here’bouts.“
The only other patron was a strikingly beautiful but heartbroken looking woman.
The owner’s stare went repeatedly back and forth between the looker and us.
We left immediately.
When we explained to people outside what had happened, we described the pair. They insisted that the people we referred to had been dead since 1970. They even directed us to their graves.
Aunt Bernice quietly kept a stranglehold upon her Rosary and bottle of Elavil.
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Wonderfully creepy. Stories that end with ~ but they’ve been gone for years ~ always intrigue me.
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Thanks. That was the only thing I could come up with so I hope It worked out well.
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Very well.
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Creepy! I love those haunting kinds of stories too.
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Great story. Really captures the spirit of the place.
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Thanks. I was hoping for that.
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The fellow seems like just a curmudgeonly ghost, but I find myself wondering what happened to the woman and if he had something to do with it.
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Well those very unfriendly smirks must most certainly portend such awful evil.
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Dear Larry,
“Last night at the dance I met Laurie…” Love the story and the last line is perfect. Rosary and Elavil. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks Rochelle. Of the other places I referred to, they’re both real and I’m familiar with them so I assumed that makes it all more believable.
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Yeeks, at least they made it out alive. Probably they won’t be letting Uncle Leo drive again!
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I certainly hope not.
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Loved this, Larry. And yes, at least they made it out alive… and I don’t think they’ll be using that road ever again. Rosary and Elavil… LOL…
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Thanks Dale. Alas Some circumstances are so stressful it pays to have recourse to both prayer and medication.
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Methinks so!!
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