April 17, 2009
Ghost of a Runaway Slave in My Car
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Cris Reyes - Interstate 10 in Louisiana - Early 1998
I was in the Navy at the time, and stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. I was
driving to Houston, Texas, on leave and had been on the road all night and
alone. My diet had consisted of no-doz and Coke, and it was coming on 2-3
AM. I remember seeing something out of the corner of my eye, so when I
turned to look, I was surprised to see what appeared to be a runaway slave
sitting in my passenger seat. He had an unkempt fro and bib overalls with no
shirt. He kept looking around frantically as if someone was chasing him.
Then he was gone.
I then noticed something out of my other eye. When I turned, I noticed
hovering outside my car was an older white man with a sunburned face and
neck, wearing a khaki shirt and sporting a crew cut. Out of the two
apparitions, him I did not like. Now things started getting interesting as
he proceeded to yell or chant something at me through the window as I was
traveling about 70 miles an hour. The next thing I knew, I was transfixed on
my windshield as it starts to turn white, like at the beginning of a movie
when the screen goes white. Oblivious to everything, the slaveman starts
yelling at me to look out. I snap to and am literally inches from plowing
into the car in front of me. Then everyone was gone.
A few minutes later the white man shows up again and everything starts over
and ends the same way. Finally the third time it happens, I couldn't snap
out of it as quickly. I felt the car shaking and bopping about as the white
man chanted and the slaveman yelled at me to look out. When I did snap out
of it, I was in the median between the two roads headed for a bridge. Of
course there is no bridge for people on the median, so I slammed on my
brakes, took the keys out of the ignition, covered my head with my jacket
and prayed. I fell asleep for a couple of hours and when I woke up I drove
home without incident. That was trip one of two. Has anyone experienced
anything like this in the state of Louisiana?
