Blog Post #16: Real Life Ghost Story

This blog I wanted to get a little spooky so I figured I would delve head first into some very spooky personal  experiences I have had for the next few weeks. This week I'd like to talk about an experience I had on the O'odham reservation seven years ago. Going to preface this with the fact that I am not a tribal member, and for those of you who have followed me here from my social medias--you know I am very much Caucasian. That being said, I AM very much married to a Native American man, but no, he is not O'odham, he is Apache. However, he DID work for a school on the O'odham reservation for a very long time. He was hired on as one thing and ended up doing many things for the school, and that would sometimes mean that I would be picking him up very late (sometimes around 9/10 pm our time). We only had one vehicle at the time, and it was very temperamental. Out of the maybe 10 months we owned the thing, it ran a total of 3 of those months, THAT is how shitty the car was. It was a lemon if I ever saw one, and it was sold to us under Arizona law by a dealership that later repossessed the piece of shit. But that is a story for another time.

This night, I had the Nissan Altima because I needed it to run errands all day while my husband worked, and now it was time to pick him up.

We lived in a very nice home in Maricopa at the time; something that we moved into pretty recently. Maricopa is about a thirty minute drive to where I had to pick my husband up. Up through the maze of
neighborhoods, out of town on one fatal strip of pitch black highway, and then down a pitch black road that would eventually lead me to the school he worked at. All in the dark, which I actually don't mind most of the time. The dark is peaceful, there aren't many people out at these hours, and the desert has a way of opening the sky up like a fishbowl experience. If you are out of the city light pollution it's a super spectacular mural of twinkling balls of light. Something I had never experienced back East where I am from, so am still in awe of to this day. If you're ever not in the city, look up, what do you see?

So after getting my little tiny infant ready for my ride, packing her a finally allowed myself a little music while I drove. I usually have too much anxiety to allow music when I'm driving alone, so it was off the entire time so I could listen for my daughter. So now,  I was pumping Slash's self titled album on the way, because there are quite a few songs on there that I enjoy--even though it was from my husband's album collection.
diaper bag, and heading out the door--I strapped her safely into her tiny
car seat, made sure she was comfortable and a few minutes later we were on our way. I didn't stop anywhere, I went directly out of town onto John Wayne Parkway and took it several miles down to Riggs road where I would usually turn onto Riggs Road towards the school. My daughter was sleeping in the back, she was a calm baby who rarely cried and she wasn't making any noise.

Singing along to the music, I started to drum badly on the steering wheel. The only lights in front of me were far away, and in front of a medical facility. The only other lights on the road were my headlights. Suddenly though, I felt real uneasy. The hair on my neck and arms was standing up but I wasn't cold. I chalked it up to anxiety fucking with me because I was driving on an endless road to my husband and

 I grew up in a town where everything was literally fifteen minutes away. Then I saw him standing there. I blinked a few times as a few things went through my mind. One, I had an infant in the back seat and I couldn't swerve to the right because I would kill us both and harm the vehicle. Two, why was he just standing there? And finally, go left, go left!!!!!!! So I jerked the wheel left and ended up in the break down lane of the other side of the road, but I swore I hit that man. 

I parked the car, my heart was racing. I looked around while I was calling my husband's phone then I noticed it. A small memorial was erected nearby, the candles lit and flickering inside their small glass prisons. I looked all around and locked the car doors. I checked on my daughter in the back, and she was sleeping soundly, and when my husband answered the phone I explained what happened. I told him I was shaken. He calmed me down, and then I started towards him again. A few cars had passed in this time, so I figured it was fine. I was fine. I hadn't felt anything hit the car, but I KNEW I drove through that man. Then it hit me. The dead here are confused, and they cannot die or be harmed. I drove faster.

When I got to my husband I had him drive, we drove the same way even though I was nervous. It wasn't til we were safe at home that my husband explained to me that wasn't the first time that spirit had been seen especially in that area. There are a lot of accidents caused by him, and he was glad we were safe. I can still remember his vacant staring face, and thinking to myself--what the fuck are you standing there for? Apparently the erected memorial nearby was his, and sometimes he runs out in the road and causes the accidents. For me though, it just seemed like a very unhappy man, standing in the road. Either way, still gives me goosebumps to think about.


Hope you all enjoyed this real story from my life, as are most of the stories on here. More to come I swear, I just want to make sure what I write is not too terrifying or questionable. Don't need to cause any nightmares LOL! No but in all seriousness, do any of you have any spooky stories to share? DM them to me on twitter and I would gladly read them, perhaps I could make a short story based off of it or something, because I'm planning on doing a short scary story every week til Halloween is over and I would love ideas or just plain old feedback! Wondering about that slash album I mentioned earlier? GOOD. It's amazing, check it out here: ~>

still have more planned too, no computer yet, but soon! If you blink youll miss it, so stay tuned!

Alright fam, 

Love YOU! Stay tight! Stay Real! Be YOU!

Welcome to the ghoul fam xo *~Danii_Grimm~*

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