Crazy Antics and Dreams

A Haunted House with a Murderous Ghost

On the night of November 9, 2008 I had a dream that was not only strange, but very weird. This dream began in a very old home that was a tourist site. I seemed to be one of the people involved with the management of the house. In one of the bedrooms of the house the king sized bed was piled high with thousands of hats. The strange variety of hats had been left by visitors to the house and I noticed that the hats were covered in dust.

Four teenaged girls had arranged with the owners of the house to spend a night locked inside the allegedly haunted house. The girls were dropped off at the house by their parents. The sun hadn’t set and I tried valiantly to dissuade the parents from allowing the girls to spend the night because of the previous ghostly encounters in the house. Since there hadn’t been any sign of the ghost for several years, the owners said that the girls would be safe. Neither the parents nor the girls believed me that it might be dangerous for the girls to hunt for ghosts in the house. The owners of the house insisted that I securely lock the girls in the house and their parents agreed. After I locked the doors I left with a terrible sense of dread.

The dream continued with me riding a large white and gray horse from the house and though a nearby college campus. While I was passing through the campus I saw a large number of students and faculty members. A female professor who knew me stopped me to ask if there had been any paranormal activity in the house since we had last seen each other. I told her nothing had happened, but that four teenage girls were staying in the house. I also told her I was worried that they would be hurt or killed by the ghost that seemed to reside in the house. The professor invited me to follow her to her home where we could have dinner and discuss the haunted house in more detail.

As the professor leads me to her home we pass near enough to the house to see into   its windows. There is an ominous shadow in one of the windows and I shiver as a dark feeling of horror passes through me. At the professor’s house she tells me that we cannot worry about what we cannot control. Her kitchen has pale green tile and her dogs are very friendly. She promises to go with me when I open the house in the morning.

The next thing that I know, we are opening in the house. When we walk into the bedroom with the hats piled on the bed and we begin to call out for the girls. The house is dead silent and there is no response to our calls. As we walk through the remainder of the house, we begin to find shredded body parts throughout the other rooms. The ghost appears and I awake with a start as the alarm beeps.

Picnic in the Old Neighborhood

The dream that I had on April 30, 2008 was set in my husband’s home in our old neighborhood before we were married. There was a large tent over much of the backyard and long picnic tables in rows. Many deceased family members and others were happily enjoying the food. This was a very short dream, but it was strange that so many people in the dream were deceased.

Bus Trip to the Texas Gulf Coast

On the morning of April 3, 2008 my dream was very vivid and strange all at the same time. Between 3:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., I dreamed that my husband, daughter, and I were on a Greyhound bus. My daughter seemed to be about twelve years of age and we were traveling to the Texas Gulf Coast. When we reached the bridge going to the ferry to take us to the other side of the inter-coastal channel, we passed a pier with several bay boats. One of the bay boats was being loaded by one my bosses that I worked for in the 1980s.

The next thing that happened was that the bus flew off of the bridge and landed in about four feet of water. Since we were close to the shore, we waded to the shore and then walked to a bakery and bought some cinnamon buns. While we waited for the bus to be towed out of the water, we walked back to the bridge. We saw some large fish in the water; one of the fish jumped from the water and hit me in the face. Afterward, we had lunch at a dude ranch. It was strange, but I watched everyone at the bar and even spoke with a man from Germany who was smoking. I then went in search of my husband and daughter. I found them watching a herd of bison mixed with cattle and horses. When the animals began to stampede, we moved back to the bus.

When the bus was finally loaded, we drove past a burning chemical plant. There was a tremendous amount of smoke. The only thing that I remember was that there were some trains on parallel tracks to the highway we were on. The first train was of concern since the cargo cars were stacked three high and one of the cars was top heavy. It looked as if the the cars were going to fall onto the bus. This dream was very colorful, but when I awoke I didn’t seem to remember much more.

Ghost in Grandma's House

The dream I had on February 23, 2008 was complicated because it had numerous elements and relatives such as my grandmother, my aunt and uncle, two of their daughters, and it's in my grandmother’s home. Also, there was a ghost that was able to move the television and people high into the air. One of my cousins and I went to the back of the house which had been transformed into an oversized shower and sauna. The shower floor was a mint green color with a matching shower curtain.

We went back to the room with the television and the ghost lifted me off of the floor. I had a conversation with the ghost and everyone else too. That’s when the dream ended.

Delivering a Baby in my Dad's Chevy

Early in the morning of January 5, 2008, I had a very odd dream with a very good friend as the main character. What makes this dream so unusual is that she was heavily pregnant and in hard labor. My friend can no longer have children so this was strange indeed. In addition, my dad and I put her in the backseat of a 1952 Chevy Bel Aire four door sedan (we had this car when I was a kid). While I was in the backseat with her, my dad drove us to the hospital. As he was driving he would turn to check on my friend then speed up. Her labor progressed so quickly that the baby was born before we make it to the hospital. As I helped her with the baby boy I noticed that there was bright red blood all over the car’s backseat.

After the baby boy was born we arrive at the hospital and I help my friend walk into the emergency room entrance. I then seem to spend a considerable amount of time trying to clean the blood off of the backseat of dad’s car.

The next thing that I remember is going to the hospital’s shopping mall to order ballpoint pens with blue letters proclaiming, “It’s a boy!” I never learn what the baby’s name is so I can’t put his name on the pens. We then go to the hospital’s auditorium. I woke up not knowing why we're in the auditorium.

Shopping and a Bicycle Trip

On the night of December 15, 2007 I had a very vivid dream about a shopping trip with my teenaged daughter and a bicycle ride. The first part of the dream was about an unusual shopping trip to the strip center that used to be next to our Church and school. The center appeared just as it was when I attended our Church’s elementary school. We first went into a clothing store that was located at the corner of the strip center. My daughter was very fussy while we were in the store and didn’t like anything that they had in stock. We left the store and went into the drug store where one of the salespersons was someone from my current parish. After the visit to the drug store, we drove toward to the Piggly-Wiggly grocery store that had been converted into a high-end women’s clothing store.

 

The next thing I notice is that I am now peddling a bicycle away from the strip center. After riding through the campus of an elementary school, I continue into the countryside and peddle past pastures with horses and cattle. I continue riding into a rundown ghost town on a street of adobe houses and empty sheet-metal barns. As I continue down the street it becomes very narrow and I’m not able to ride the bike any further. While I was stopped I noticed something dash into one of the adobe houses. All I saw of the creature was that it had very hairy legs that were a blackish-gray color.

 

Several people approach me and invite me to stay and visit with them. I explained that I was traveling around the area seeking out ghost stories and haunted places to create a Haunted Bicycle Tour. The people were very enthusiastic since there were numerous haunted buildings in their town. Also, they had all had ghostly encounters that they were eager to share with visitors. Just then a Galaxy C100 Air Force cargo plane crashes into a pasture approximately a quarter-mile away. The crew has exit the wreck and seem to leave the area without speaking to us. This is when we notice the sky has become very cloudy and darkens and a dangerous storm with high winds and rain threatens. As we race into the nearest house, we watch a tornado tear through the countryside. Once the tornado disappears, I get back on my bicycle and return home. I ride past more cattle and several cowboys are chasing a very large Black Angus bull. I then woke and recorded this dream.

Chinese Boutique and a Balancing Act

The dream I had on July 4, 2007 happened between 4:30 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. This dream was very interesting since it started with me being instructed by the C.E.O. of a savings and loan (I worked at this S&L most of the 1980s).

 

The C.E.O. was instructing me to work with another employee to sell some odd Chinese items at a boutique in a mall. They gave me a white oriental-style dress to wear and then handed me a Chinese Checker board and marbles to set up in the boutique. I seemed to be having difficulty balancing the board and keeping the marbles from falling onto the floor. I remembered that the Chinese Checker board was a very deep shade of red. I managed to balance the game as they made me a “living” display stand.

 

On my way through the boutique, a Chinese lady stopped me and asked me to watch her Green Conure Parrot. The woman watched a parade that was passing by the mall windows. Her parrot liked me and readily hopped onto my shoulder.

 

The mall was crowded with people also watching the parade. After the parade, I wandered through the boutique looking at the Chinese furniture and the exotic carved statues. I met the owner of the boutique and she introduced me to her daughters and her elderly mother.

 

Since there was a birdcage with a bright yellow Conure Parrot in it, I asked if the parrot on my shoulder could stay in the cage too. After what seemed to be a long time, the owner’s daughter took the Chinese Checker game. The parrot’s owner returned and wanted her bird. When we went to cage, we found that there were two African Grey parrots, a third Conure, and a Canary with the two original Conure parrots.

 

One of the S&L employees wanted one of the African Grey parrots and I took the other. I remember thinking that the clarity of the dream and the vivid colors were unusual for a dream.

 

Trip to the Mall

Late on the night of May 15, 2007, I had a dream that I went to a very large shopping mall with my sisters and their families as well as my Mom. Part of the time I seemed to be alone in the mall and I walked a long way to find everyone.

 

When I hadn’t found my family, I went into a pet shop and went inside to look at the fish in the numerous large aquariums. I purchased a very nice tank and several fish. It seems that the colors of the fish were more vivid than real life. I was fascinated by the brilliant gold, red, green, and orange colors of the fish.

 

Later that day, I found everyone and showed them my aquarium. They all seemed to like the tank and the fish, but one sister and my Mom thought their purchases were more important and didn’t take care when the tank was loaded into the vehicle. Needless to say my tank was broken and the fish were now dead. I went back to the mall and took another long walk to the pet store. I woke up and the dream faded away.

Grizzly Bears and Bikers

The dream I had on April 29, 2007 happened early in the morning. In the dream I was traveling by car through the Texas countryside to visit the small towns along the way. In one town, one of my sisters and I stopped to eat at a café. We were invited to visit the owner’s home.

The house was a very old, completely restored house. Several bikers came to visit the owner. From the front porch of the house, I noticed that the neighbor who lived two houses down the street had several large brown Grizzly bears in a pen in the front yard. After a brief time, the bikers noticed the bears and that one of the bears breaking out of its pen. We all went back into the house to wait for the Texas Parks and Wildlife officers to capture the bear. For some reason it seemed to take a long time. While we waited in the house, I had a conversation with the bikers about their Harley-Davidson motorcycles. I told them about my twin brother-in-laws’ matching Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The dream ended when the Texas Parks and Wildlife officers captured the Grizzly bear. I woke to the alarm blaring.

Cattle, Goats, and a Farrier

Early in the morning of April 20, 2007, I had the following brief dream. The dream was a very active one in which I was busy helping take care of some brown goats and cattle. At one point, I walked past a stall where a horse was having its hooves trimmed by a farrier. The horse’s front left hoof was cracked and ragged. The horse tried to bite me with its large and very long teeth. Fortunately, I moved fast and was quickly out of its reach. I woke after this dream.