THE OBSERVATION BOOTH
OP-ED & PHOTOS BY ANDREA DIALECT
WHAT THEY CALL PARANORMAL IS OFTENTIMES THE NORM. CAUSE THE NORM AIN’T REALLY NORMAL DARLING! – Andrea Dialect Said That!
SNEAK PEEK
Before I say Boo! I believe that an apology is in order. The online version of The Observation Booth and the “Local Talk” website including our weekly digital newspaper print versions hadn’t been posted or updated in the last few weeks due to a death in the extended LT family. Our apologies for the inconvenience. The good news is that they are online now.
For those of you that are still dangling on the edge of your seat waiting for those happy or not-so-happy endings, hang in there and stay tuned. I also must apologize for grammatical errors that you may or may not come across in my writing. Last week was a doozy.
Sometimes the piece shows up at the eleventh hour as it had last week, and I made the dump just in the nick of time before lines were dead, lol. That happens sometimes. But instead of leaving my stiletto behind, sometimes unfortunately I leave error. Once again, I utilize this section as part of my process for developing future content for my podcast, performance artistry, books, and etc.
This section like all else Andrea Dialect is my test lab. Meaning this is the first step. So there will be times that seemingly there is no rhyme or reason to it or it could be that something simply went over my head because at the time I was more concerned with out comings than the outcome per se.
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s like those fingernails scraping on that chalkboard for all you grammarians out there but there is a method to the madness so just bear with a sista I beg ya, lol.
I just thought I’d give you a heads-up for future references. Once again be on the lookout for the ending of last week’s Part 1. As for this week’s submission, I believe the title says it all so no need for the usual lead-in were simply playing that fly on the wall once again. This is just a peek into somebody else’s world as all else here. Readers, let me introduce you to “Shorty,” Shorty the geeks…
FLICK THE LIGHTS ON
Scissors In The Bible – (Shorty Part 1)
“My very first encounter was when I was a baby. I was born in Jacksonville, Florida; I was raised here but born there. Both of my parents were retired. My dad was a retired veteran, and my mom was a retired nurse. I was adopted by the two but to me, they were my real parents. I knew my biological father, but I never knew my mother.
“I grew up during the depression. I’m talking lights off sometimes and kerosene lamps, so we didn’t have a lot. We came here to Jersey when I was twelve. When I was little my mom used to play with me and one day my mom said while she was playing with me, she noticed that I was looking like I saw something. She said that that’s when she knew that I had some kind of gift because that would happen often.
“We lived in this house; they called it Staples Court. It was like a row of houses we had people on both sides of us. I can remember the ol man next to us dying one day. They say it was likely that corn liquor he loved to drink that killed him or maybe not living at Staples.
“A lot of people most likely had died in the home or in the Courts because it was eerie.
“As I got older it became more intense. I think when I got about 7 or eight years old something like that it got bad, I mean really intense. I usta see people come in, go through the wall and come out on the other side of the house. When at nighttime you could sit on the porch and see people walking through the “Court” and you’d see them walk right past you and then they would just disappear, now that’s intense. I was around seven then and yes, I was scared. Then it really started to get worst when they started bothering me.
SHALLOW BREATHS
We Call Him “Shorty”
“They would come and they would stand around. I hadn’t experienced anything like that kind of activity so to me it was scary; to see these things and whatever or these people and whatever of course any child would be scared. There usta be times when I would be trying to sleep and they would be riding me. Riding you is when it’s like you’re paralyzed and you can’t move or talk. It’s like that thing is on top of you holding you down and it’s hard to breathe.
“I was scared to go to bed at night. I would tell my mother about it. Sometimes they’d let me sleep in their bed and at other times when they wanted to be alone, I’d sleep in my room. They was from the South you know. They were old school. My mother would open up a certain verse in the bible and she would read it to me at night. Then she would put scissors in the bible and lay it at the head of my bed.
“I didn’t stop them from showing up but it slowed them up from bothering me so much. Like say for instance my bed is here and instead of them coming right up on me and riding me. It would keep them at a distance and she sometimes also put the bible by the door, my room door and that meant that they couldn’t enter you know what I mean?
“They also had horseshoes up and some kinda whatever to keep the enemy away from you. I mean you could see em but they couldn’t cross that portal. It got to the point that when I went to school it was the only time I could get some sleep. My teacher asked me why I was always so sleepy and I told her. She talked to my mom about it.
“One of my sisters that lived here at the time eventually sent money down so that we could move out of that place. Things changed for a short while. But then they showed up again. Mom told me that I had been gifted with what they call a veil. She’d say you know this all has something to do with you. The attraction is you. The Pastors that visited also agreed. We moved up here when I was about twelve. Those were the types of encounters that had been a part of my life until we moved. Then they started showing up in the daytime!”
Follow the breadcrumbs, and stay tuned for Shorty Part 2! – Andrea Dialect
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