Haunted Pillar Aftermath

If you read last week's column and you watched American Super Natural in The Weather Channel last Sunday night, you might be able to follow the topic of this column.  You see, there is a follow up to my experience with the Haunted Pillar of Augusta

I related that I touched the pillar while we were there, but that was a little white lie, so I shouldn't have brought the curse upon myself.  Well, at least I haven't died or gotten deathly sick or had any of those other supernatural events happen directly to me.

However, on Sunday night while the program was in progress on television we were under a thunderstorm warning with predictions for high winds and heavy rainfall.  We did hear the rain and wind, but I thought no more about it until we woke up this morning and looked out the windows.

This is what we saw.

The leaves brought down by the late night storm covered everything, including roofs of the houses two blocks from the forest behind our house.  My wife had used our leaf blower on Saturday to clear all that leaves from our driveway and patio, so all of this was brand new fall.

Here is what my house and car looked like after the storm.  You can't see them all, but

there are leaves plastered to the side of the house, the windows and the pillars out front as well.

On the local newscasts later in the day there were reports of wind damage, including roofs and siding that same off buildings in Augusta. It wasn't a tornado, but there was definitely "a mighty wind" that struck simultaneously with the airing of the program.

Was it the curse of Haunted Pillar that brought about this mess?  Maybe not, but then, my daughter lives only a few miles from here, and they didn't even know there was a storm in the area.  Their house, which also has lots of trees behind it, had no such litter around it.  Spooky!!!

One more thing . . . I wrote about seeing spirits near the Haunted Pillar in the previous WW Column, but I didn't explain about them.  If you watched the show Sunday night you might have seen that the store across the street from the Haunted Pillar is a liquor store.  They have plate glass windows and lots of spirits there, so it isn't uncommon to see them from the pillar.

In case you missed American Super Natural last Sunday night, "Augusta's Tornado Talisman" is being shown again at Midnight on Tuesday, December 2nd on The Weather Channel.  If you have the ability to record it, you can still see it.  Michael Wolff, our trolley tour guide, is featured prominently in the show.