Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The Smiling Man In the Blue Suit


This house is located on East Dixie Avenue in Marietta.

In 1937, my mother and father spent their first night of marriage in this house. My father was a patrolman, so there was no honeymoon cruise or anything like that. He had to be back at work the next day.

During that first night, Mama woke up in the middle of the night and saw that a man in a blue suit was standing near them, looking at them smiling. He was red headed and appeared to have one arm behind him.

Mama screamed and by the time Daddy was awake the man was gone.

The next morning Mama was telling the landlady about the man she saw after my father went to work.

The landlady was surprised. She said her husband was red-headed, lost his arm in an accident, and was buried with a blue suit on.

OOOOOOoooOOOOOOooooooo!

2 comments:

kenju said...

ooooooo is right! I would have screamed for hours.

Eddie said...

Maybe we could scream in harmony.