True Story

Throwback Thursday.  I heard the other day that on a recent Sunday a Methodist minister in Texas blessed a bunch of #2 pencils for the children of the congregation to do a project of some kind.  After it was over several of the adults wanted to get one of those "blessed #2 pencils".

That reminded me of this neighborhood years ago, maybe 20 years or more:

On our side yard and behind us was a family with two teenage kids and a mother and daddy.  The daddy owned several convenience stores which took up all his time.  He was rarely there.  Neither were the teenage kids.  The wife, Cheryl was there by herself most of the time.  She took a lot of medicine.

Cheryl was high most of the time and hung around her house in her night gown.  She told one of us neighbors that Elvis walked up to her while she was waiting for her medicine prescription to be filled at Echkards. Drugs.  Elvis said, "Where you been all my life, I'm coming back and get you!"

Did he?  A big shiny Cadillac was sighted in the neighborhood, cruising slowly.

Cheryl was discovered dead  by her husband, she had been dead several days.  She died from an overdose.

Cheryl's husband and kids moved out, to west Cobb to be closer to his stores.

A middle-age husband and wife bought the house.  The husband's name was Bill.  Bill started seeing glimpses of Cheryl walking in the dark, or over him at the ceiling looking down and more.

Bill's wife Sarah decided to have the house exorcised by a priest.  She invited me and other neighbors to come over and witness the exorcism.  A robed female Episcopalian priest came over and her smoking or incense swinging metal balls.  She blessed the house.  Then it was like a yuppie party:  Cheese and wine and social awareness chats.

A day or two later I saw Sarah out working in the back yard and thanked her for inviting me and asked her has Cheryl been back.  She said, no, but Cheryl did make a finale'.  She dropped a dead rat on Bill's face while he was asleep.

They moved since and probably about 4 or 5 families has moved in and moved out.  I think it has a higher turnover than the other houses around here.