| The following story was taken
from the book titled "Ghost Sightings" and was
written by Brian Innes . The commentary below is not that
of CPRS, but the actual thoughts and word s of the author or
reporter.
Place:
Nogales,
Arizona
Tine:
1942
Reporter:
Gordon St. Thomas
Gordon St. Thomas, an officer of the US Immigration Service, was
transferred to Nogales, on the border with Mexico, in 1942. He rented a
former bachelor Army officers' quarters, a long, low, one-story house
built during the 19th century, and moved in with his wife
Sarah and two young children. From the beginning, they often had the
feeling that when they entered the room, someone had just left it. Then
St. Thomas began to be aware that there was an entity about the house
that seemed to be obsessed with tidiness. He would return home from duty
and throw his cap on the chair, only to find it a minute or two later
hanging from a hook. If he left a book open upon a table, it would be
replaced in the bookshelves. Packets of cigarettes lying around would
end up in the wastebasket. One morning he left the coffee percolator on
the stove with the gas turned up full beneath it and went to shave; when
he remembered, several minutes later, and hurried back to the kitchen,
he found the gas turned down low.
The
most remarkable event, however, occurred one night when St. Thomas came
off duty late, and decided to sleep in a spare bedroom so as not to wake
his wife. As he was falling asleep, he felt his foot shaken vigorously;
sitting up, he switched on the light, but found the room empty. He was
about the switch off the light again when, looking up, he saw a scorpion
on the ceiling immediately over the bed. As surrounding temperatures
fall at night, scorpions can feel the heat rising from a sleeping body,
and move to it. St Thomas was convinced that the "ghost" had
saved his life.
Commentary:
The fact that soldiers, had previously occupied the house during the
border wars with Mexico and the pursuit of the Apache chief Geronimo,
suggests that the ghost may have well been that of a military man, one
of those renowned for their insistence on neatness and order. St. Thomas
is now dead; more than 50 years after his experiences, the exact
location of the building has not been discovered, and so nothing is
known of its previous history. |
