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The ghost and a near case of accidental overthrow

Contributed by: Fran Miller on 10/31/2007

defn. Accidental Overthrow: when an object traveling at high speed in one direction suddenly has to veer and careens off its track.

MidKnight the Kat, aka Midde, recalls:

It happened about a year ago close to Swedish Hospital over in Englewood, where there is a ghetto of Swedes who emigrated to Colorado at the turn of the 21st century to escape taxation and lutefisk. While it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, Midde swears it is real.

MidKnight was on the side of the road, hitchhiking back to the Oasis on a real dark night in the middle of a Halloween eve snowstorm. Time passed slowly and no cars went by. It was raining so hard he could hardly see his hand in front of his face. Suddenly he saw a car moving slowly, approaching and appearing ghostlike in the rain. It slowly and silently crept toward him and stopped.

Wanting a ride real bad MidKnight jumped into the car and closed the door; only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the wheel, and no sound of an engine to be heard over the rain. Again the car crept slowly forward and the MidKnight was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running.

MidKnight saw that the car was approaching a sharp curve and, still too scared to jump out, he started to pray and began begging for his life; he was sure the ghost car would experience " accidental overthrow" and go off the road and into a nearby lake and he would surely drown!

But just before the curve a shadowy figure appeared at the driver's window and a hand reached in and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as silently, the hand disappeared through the window and the MidKnight was alone again!

Paralyzed with fear, MidKnight watched the hand reappear every time they reached a c urve. Finally the guy, scared to near death, had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran and ran, back to the Oasis and jumped into Fran's arms.


Wet and in shock, he went inside and directly to his kat dish and ate Fancy Feast, Lutefisk flavor, voraciously. When his stomach was full and he had regained his composure, which go paw-in-paw he told the other kats, Wigge, Sarah, Buckii and Benjii about his supernatural experience. A silence enveloped and everybody fur stood on end and their tails got big. They knew that Midde was telling the truth (and was not just some scairdy kat).

About half an hour later a guy and a woman knocked on the door, trick or treating. The woman, whose name was later discovered to be Lena, says to the guy, dressed in a costume resembling a Minnesota hunter "Look Ole, ders dat idiot kat rode in our car when we wuzpushin it in da rain ."


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Fran Miller

Parker , CO

Fran Miller has posted 120 stories and 15 comments since joining on 9/28/2007. Fran Miller 's average story rating is 4.78.
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