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San Antonio-Express posted this true story of an encounter of an alleged
apparition believed to be one of the children who were on the fateful
bus which was broad sided by a train on the way home in rural section of
San Antonio TX. (Thanks for sending this Brenda!)
By Darvin
A. Burnett
What happened on the night of Feb. 13, 1981 still haunts me. It was late
at night and I was on my way home from work. As I was driving along, I
noticed a young girl who couldn't have been any older than 15 at the
edge of Old Mission Road. It was cold, and Id always thought the area
was kind of spooky, so I asked her if she needed a ride home. She said
yes. She told me her name was Cindy Sue and that she lived off Villamain
Road. I wondered what a girl her age was doing out so late. She was
quiet to the point of giving me creeps. She said nothing as we drove
along, but I could see through the corner of my eye she was looking at
me.
We approached some old railroad tracks. As we went across,
Cindy Sue started squirming in her seat. I asked her what was wrong. She
said "nothing." As we arrived at her house, she remained in
the car. I quickly assumed she was having problems at home, so I told
her I would talk to her parents. I rang the doorbell and an elderly man
and woman answered the door. I expected her parents to be much younger.
They both looked at me as if I was crazy when I said Cindy Sue was in my
car. The elderly man became upset and told me to get off his property or
he would call the police. As I walked back to the car, he yelled,
"Quit doing this to us. Let Cindy Sue rest in peace."
When I got back to the car, Cindy Sue was gone. I never
heard the car door open or shut. She just vanished. I remember that when
she got in the car, she locked the door and fastened her seat belt. To
my disbelief, the door was still locked and the set belt still fastened.
Then I remembered why Id thought the area was unsettling. Several years
before, a bus accident in the area had killed several children. As a
memorial to the children, the street names in the neighborhood had been
changed to those of the students who had died in the bus accident:
Richey Otis, Bobbie Allen, Shane, Emilio, Guerra and others.
As I drove out
of the neighborhood, I noticed the name of the street right before the
old railroad tracks: Cindy Sue
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