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.
