Ghost Stories of Texas written by Joanne Christensen, published by Loe Pine Publishing Watch
Youse Up. In May two thousand, Efrindianas of Donna, Texas, wrote
to Fate magazine about an unforgettable experience that he had when he was ten years
old and accompanied his truck driver father on a trip to Laredo. The large
cargo of melons was to be delivered before sunrise, so the two had been
driving through the cool early hours of the morning. Efren recalled the pale glow
of the moon lighting their way as the truck raced along the highway speed.
The calm was soon to be interrupted. All of a sudden, wrote Efren,
The passenger side door opened where I was sitting. To my surprise,
I saw an old lady standing at the side step, holding the door open
and beckoning me with her finger to go with her. The boy looked at
his father, the elder Nansi, simply told his son, give me your
hand and closed the door. He gave no indication that he had seen the
old woman. Efren looked to his right and found that he could no longer
see her either. The door, however, remained wide open despite the air
pressure created by the truck's high speed. Efren's father grasped his wrist, and
the boy reached over and pulled the door shut. Father and son rode in
silence for some time. Finally, Effron had asked his father if he had
seen the woman holding the open door. The man responded with a raised eyebrow
and sideways glance, suggesting that he had not. Before Efron could explain himself
further, the ground suddenly appeared again, this time in the middle of the
road, directly in front of the truck. Efren's father had no time to
react. There is a dull thud of impact before he managed to slam the
foot down on the brake pedal. Once the truck had come to a stop,
the shaken Tussom climbed out to face the gruesome scene. What they discovered,
according to Efrinjana's, was a shock and a mystery. There is no
blood on the truck's grill, just white feathers from a large bird. My
dad said that it was Lachusa, a chow that people turned into. Efronian's
eerie Telle might be a rare first hand encounter with a gigantic supernatural creature known
as Lychusa. The well known Mexican American legend of Lychusa tells of an enormous
black bird with no feet. The axe is a warning or an omen,
and torments those who have committed terrible sins. There are notable discrepancies between Yandi's
story and the legend, but there are some similarities as well. According to
Rosemary Ellen Gli in Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical and Paranormal Experience HarperCollins, nineteen ninety
one, birds are the omens of death, especially blackbirds such as crows,
and nocturnal birds such as owls. Would that taken into consideration, a huge
black crow of legend and the sinister white witch owl of Efren Yunin's story have
much in common. Yennus himself wondered, was death calling me at a young
age? Or was it some message from the dead. It is a chilling
question to which, several years later, there still remains no answer. The
only one that truly knows why the frightening creatures summon Efren yunis on that dark
early morning is the creature itself. Let Choosa Oh