The darkness, the full moon , things that move in the dark ..... and go ... BUMP ... in the night , has haunted man's imagination for centuries . There is a wealth of material in the legends, hear-says. witness accounts, and
true facts reported over the centuries to give fuel to a compulsive fascination with the horror of the " walking dead " .... in all it's spine tingling glory ! This is where my story begins. I guess you had to really be there to appreciate it, but, think back to that carefree time when you were seventeen and you couldn't WAIT to get out of school for the weekend ! God , it was FRIDAY !!! YESSSS !!!! My friends were calling me up after school , already conjuring up plans to get together with our favorite male friends from school , so we could all pile up in the car and go " tooling around town ". Ha ! What a grin !
This one paticular Friday night took a strange twist . As with all young kids who decide to be adventurous, 'Smitty" suggested we go out to " Halloween Hallow " ... better known as THE HOG BACKS ! This was your typical 'Lovers Lane "..... I mean , after all , .. it was Halloween night ! Right ? There was Linnie , Diane , Karen, and yours truely ! Smitty was the macho dude , and then there was Ken, Dave , and Jerry . Great people , great humor . We ladies were all dolled up , looking fine as wine and twice as hard to get ... the guys looked great ! We stopped at a neighborhood store and bought all the necessary goodies and drinks and headed out to the country roads . It was just getting dusk out . The sun was setting ... god , it was beautiful . The perfect night to come ! A perfect breeze.... not to hot , not to cold ...awsome. Anticipated fun was in the air....
None of us had ever been to the hog backs but Smitty . What tales of terror he weaved about it as we went down the dirt roads that just kept getting smaller and smaller, until the roads were barely there . It was beautiful out in the deep woods. We made jokes , laughed at eachother until we came to a HUGE clearing .A massive field . Thats when Smitty said , " Hold on and watch out for your craniums, because if I go slow , we're stranded for the night !! " Well naturally we all started trippin' out and started yelling at Smitty to turn back . But , Ohhhhh no !! Toooo easy ! Thats when we all realized we were all in for a real dandy !! You could hear Jerry saying things like ..." Hey Smitty , turn this damn car around before you get us all killed " and, " If we make it out of here alive , I'm going to put knots on your head faster than you can rub 'em ... you'll have so many knots on your head , your head will look like a bag of marbles , foo - leo ! "
We couldn't believe our eyes !! Just up ahead, was a sea of ripples and pot holes that looked like craters on the moon ! It was pitch black out now and all we could see was what the headlights allowed us to ! But ,
NOTHING ... prepared us for what we were about to see ! It was mound formations that looked like three
and a half foot ocean waves, covered over with a carpet of tall grass and brush ! I never seen anything like it .... while the car was almost tipping over at every opportunity. Smitty, who was usually a loveable rogue with a
pirate's smile, had now suddenly seemed to become possessed ! Yyyep ... ole Smitty had really worked us up into a fever pitch of fear on that night, and we played right into his mischievous hands ! Obscenities were
being screamed at him while he sat there behind the wheel laughing like Satan incarnate ! Yep, ole Smitty
was beginning to give concrete shape and form to the devil himself . What a character ! What a night !
After what seemed like endless minutes of continuous, hysterical, screaming ,threats at Smitty, bombarding him from every angle, we came to a huge clearing .....
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