Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24077689-20131216231955/@comment-24077689-20140103151539

TheLongShadow wrote: This thread peaked my curiosity so I did some research. I decided to look into it and, through talking to various people, this is what I found about my hometown of Lubbock, TX. The first is a story of a doctor that had a practice here about a hundred years ago. The tale goes that he had a deep seated hatred for children. Evidently even the simplest cases of the common cold or a tonsol removal would leave the kids dead. Also, the story goes that orphans in the area started dissapearing and the bodies of babies were found in his backyard. I haven't found any evidence that this actually happened but it makes for a good story.

The man I talked to about this story says it's real and that it made headlines here. It's called "The Prison Man's House" In the 1940's a man killed his wife. He managed to get a prison sentence rather than the death penalty but due to a loophole in the legal system, he only served ten years. He became so horrified by his own guilt that he built his house into his own personal prison. He covered it with pictures of his wife and even hired someone to be his "warden" and lock him in certain rooms in certain hours. When I asked if where I could find this house, the old man I was speaking to said "I wouldn't tell God himself where this house was." Evidently some psycho decided to buy the place and live there. He changed the interior design to make it more liveable but it is supposedly filled with all kinds of paranormal activity. Fascinating. The local library should have public records of the incident.

I feel like there in the Panhandle there ought to be enough local history to constitute more stories in the realm of ghosts. My mom comes from the bible belt as well, but there're a plethora of local legends and stories.