| 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. |
