Scary Stories…

So, it’s Halloween and you want to hear some scary stories. Here’s one for you. If the husband doesn’t fix the wireless Internet, someone is going to find him face down in an alley. Just kidding, of course.

I picked up some real ghost stories this weekend. Apparently, my mom and her sisters are veritable ghost magnets. (I’ve also had a few experiences.) Here’s the best one from all of them. One of my aunts lives behind a graveyard and is living with a ghost. Right now. One night the ghost, let’s assume it’s a he, walked right through her. A shadow moved toward her and walked right through her! The ghost is also a neat freak. When my aunt gets home from work, sometimes her shower products are lined up on the floor of the shower. Sometimes the kitchen is the target and her spices are rearranged. Once, she heard her dog crying and some commotion in the bathroom. She found her dog, who is so arthritic he can’t climb steps and has trouble walking, in the bathtub! Lastly, the ghost climbs into bed with her. My aunt describes him as “menacing.” My aunts swear that this story is completely true and that there are no mushrooms or LSD in the picture.

Here is the scariest story I have. Also a true one. A colleague at work just became a grandmother. When her grandson was born, the prick test revealed that he had a rare enzyme disorder, called MCAD, that prevents him from processing sugar. North Carolina tests all new borns by law, but all states do not have mandatory testing. It’s such a rare condition that in ten years, only 95 babies have tested positive (in the state). So the parents did as advised and started giving their baby the prescription enzyme replacement, and making sure that the baby never went hungry. When the baby was four weeks old (last week) the parents received a call that somehow the blood tests were mixed up. The child does not have MCAD, and more horribly, the hospital has no idea who does have the disorder.

Now there, is a scary story.

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