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Date Posted: 00:57:17 06/03/02 Mon
Author: Drummond
Subject: My one "paranormal experience" (for Lona in particular)

Do I believe in ghosts? I don't know. My wife does. She insists that her Grandfather spoke to her after he died, and denies it was a trick of the mind. I can't speak to her experience.

However, I did have some "experience" of sorts. I may have seen a ghost when I was three years old, although I have no memory of it.

When I was three, I lived in Moss Beach, a small unincorporated town about 45 minutes south of San Francisco. My mother claims that I would leave the house (quietly) and wander out into the field towards the cliffs over the ocean. She says that twice I came running into the house screaming about a "Blue Lady" that I could see through. She said that I was excited, but not scared. She just chalked it up to 3 year old imagination, and didn't think about it for years.

When I was about 10 or 11, my mother came home from work and called me in. She was slightly frantic, wanting to know what I remembered about "the Blue Lady." Apparently, she had met some friends at the store who were talking about various mysteries, and the Blue Lady came up. We lived in Montara at that time, a mile north of Moss Beach. She learned that the restaraunt, The Distillery, which we frequented, was haunted by the blue lady. The discussion sent a chill up her spine, and she was noticeably disappointed at my lack of memory.

The Distillery is located several blocks from where I lived at three. Back in the 20s it was a speakeasy, with a brothel that serviced Canadian bootleggers, while dignitaries from San Francisco imbibed in everything. Apparently, a woman died in some sort of love triangle, and haunts the place every night, knocking things off shelves and locking doors.

Another theory is that the ghost is a woman who died in a car accident in the 50s nearby, and was concerned for her child at the last breath. Legend has it that the Blue Lady warns children away from the cliffs.

It made it on Unsolved Mysteries, and you can find references around the internet. The Distillery has made a tourist attraction of it, and even holds seances there.

My father thinks I probably started the rumors. My thought was that maybe the legend was pre-existing, and somebody put the idea into my three year old brain, which ran with it. I've thought about being hypnotized.

Anyway, the legend grew to the point that sometime in the early 90s, I considered investigating myself. I resolved to go to the restaraunt after it closed, maybe at 2 or 3 in the morning, and see if I noticed anything. I have gone to the restaraunt for dinner and never noticed anything. On the very night that I made this decision, I had a very vivid dream. I was outside the restaraunt, after it was closed. The windows were black, it was completely dark inside. I'm standing outside, and all of the sudden a rush of terror sweeps over me. I don't know if something is about to happen, I'm just terrified like I've never been in my life.

I woke up. My wife was sleeping next to me. This stuff all comes more easily to her. I woke her up, and told her about my dream. She told me that I wasn't three years old anymore, that that I should leave her alone. She doesn't want to be bothered. I laid awake for quite some time, and hadn't been so scared to go back to sleep since I was a kid.

I'm a pretty rational person, at least I like to think so. But it's been 8 years since that dream, and I have no interest in going to the restaraunt after hours. I was a little nervous to go to dinner there after the dream, but I'm not afraid to do that. As rational as I think I am, I'm not tempting fate.

So Lona, until I am willing to go visit the restaraunt in the early morning hours, I am in no position to tell you that you are cuckoo.

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Re: My one 'paranormal experience' (for Lona in particular) -- sue da babe, 10:09:37 06/06/02 Thu
- Can I ask you a question Sue? -- Drummond, 22:41:44 06/08/02 Sat