Posts Tagged ‘Denver’

I don’t believe in apparitions, ghosts, demons or any of the little nasties that are used by snake oil salesmen to scare us into following their twisted ways of thinking… Sorry, without people to scare to death, these men would be quite powerless.

Some of these superstitions are pure insanity:

Here are some beauties:

• Aliens are actually demons in disguise
• Black people are devils
• White people are devils
• Jews eat children (yes…EAT children)
• Russians eat their own young ( yes, someone actually told me this once )
• ( And my favorite! ) Mickey Mouse must be executed…rofl

Yes, people, you have heard it right….Mickey Mouse must die.

These are all very entertaining examples of how paranoid the human mind can be.

I’ll never forget the time I was traveling with Ishmael in Denver, Colorado. Our hotel was in a shady part of town, and we were packing up in the morning to drive to the next town.

As we stood in the parking lot, my companion Bunny Mystic was talking to me when we saw a woman walking in the parking lot towards us.

Well, “walking” doesn’t quite describe it. She was shambling towards us. Her uneven ‘fro had traces of what looked like straw and cardboard in it. And she had the most nasty cracked white lips.

It was a zombie.

“Ronnie,” Bunny whispered to me, “It’s a duppy..”. Bunny looked kinda scared, and I knew what a duppy was because he told me a few nights before.

At this point, I was getting a little scared.

We went around the other side of the van to lose sight of her.  Waited a few moments…Then as we came around the other side, she was already in the balcony above us!

As she stared down at us, we freaked out, hopped in the van, and drove off like two hungover bats outta hell.

Now I ask you….  Did we indeed see a duppy?  Or were our minds ( freshly tainted with ghost stories ) fill in all the horrific blanks for us?

Whatever the case, it was funny as hell.