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I know this is going to sound very strange, I do not want to be looked at like a fool or an oddball but this is the way it happened.
Most recently I discovered that the day after we were in the cemetery, a boy was murdered there, right where we were in what was believed to be some type of ritual. How incredibly macabre. NEWS STORY
My wife and I were in the 160 year old Des Moines Graveyard called Woodlawn Cemetery (MAP MAGE) on September 4, 2006. It is a huge very old cemetery and while walking around it started to get dark kind of quickly. We went back towards the exit and we discovered that the large, spiked electric gates were now shut. We thought that maybe they opened from weight or motion so we jumped up and down and waved our arms and such but the gates did not open. We had never been in this graveyard before so we did not know if there was another exit and we started walking around, for 1/2 an hour we walked around, taking photos, laughing, trying to find a way out of this cemetery and during this time it became VERY dark, almost stormy out. While walking around I noticed this stick sitting on the top of an old gravestone. All the words on this stone have been faded by time and it was very dark so I could not read it but I noticed the stick looked very out of place and I thought it looked cool so I grabbed it. I sneaked up on my wife and said look at what I
found but she was very scared about something she thought she saw and so I decided it was time to get out of there. we found a spot where we could stand on a tall headstone and I tossed the stick out over the fence, and her purse and then I carefully grasped the top pointed fence tips, they are sharp and kind of look like spears. If you ever get a chance to visit this graveyard, I suggest it. anyway, I managed to lift her up and over the sharp spikes, she kind of jumped while I lifted and she cleared the top even though she hurt her ankle when she dropped over the other side, then I hoisted myself up, the whole time imagining myself impaled on these damned spear points and somehow managed to get myself over.
Now here is where it starts to get very strange.
The next day, my wife got upset with me because she found the stick on the kitchen counter, I told her that I didn’t remember putting it there and she got upset because she thought I was trying to scare her again. I may have put it there but to be honest I do not even remember grabbing it from the ground and bringing it back to our home. Like I said, I might have, I just do not remember doing it.
She told me to throw it away and I couldn’t do it, every time I looked at it I see new shapes, faces, in different light it looks different, it seems to fit my hand beautifully. To be honest I love it, or loved it… I don’t know, anyway I did not throw it away, I put it in my office behind the bookshelf where of course my wife found it less than a week later. She threw it in the trash and I somehow happened to see it in there and I snatched it out and hid it up in the closet far above her reach, I am not sure why, like I said, something about it compelled me to keep it. I have had it for a long time now. We have had many strange things happen in our house. TV and lights come on and off in the middle of the night. our dog growls and barks at the closet. strange dreams…. things have been very creepy.
We are moving now and she found it again, she seems VERY upset with me this time and she told me I was childish for keeping it all this time. perhaps I have been, anyway, I told her I would get rid of it this time, I promised her…. so now I am. but I am not throwing it away, I do not care if I give it away, sell it whatever, something just seems very wrong about throwing it away. I have a compulsion I can not explain, I can not understand, I can not and will not destroy it.
UPDATE: After writing about this, I went to take photos of the item, first thing I lost it somehow and it took me two days to find it under the bed, very strange considering it’s in a different room from where I had it, but none the less, I found it and have tried to take photos of it…. I have had to change the batteries 3 times, I have had to reset my camera once and after taking about 30 photos almost all of them came out blurry, screwed up or somehow just not right. Then once I started copying the photos to my computer I had to restart my computer twice and re copy them, oh it was sooo frustrating. right now as I type this my dog is sitting in the office growling at this stick. I should be creeped out, I know… but I am not. hard to explain, once you get the stick for yourself you will understand what I mean.
If you would like to have it, you are welcome to it. Please do tell me if you experience anything with it or if I am just crazy.
Nice Post!!