Red Eyes - Tonight's Stories

Now that we are back in Jackson County for our tales, I'll share a couple that don't take place at my house or even on my road. These take place in the Annville area.

When my Mom was about five or six, her Aunt Doris lived in a house out in Annville. Luckily, its not the house she currently lives in. This one was a lot smaller and it was blue. Mom used to go over there and spend the night with her cousins because her Mom would go stay at Doris' when her husband was out on the road for his trucking job. Mom slept in the room with her cousins, Linda and Ruth, and they would both make her sleep on the outside edge of the bed.

One night she awoke to the sound of scratching under the bed. Being a brave little gal like she was, she decided to see what was making the noise, so she flipped her head over the edge of the bed and looked into the darkness. Looking back at her was two large glowing red eyes. It terrified her. She jumped up into the middle of the bed and started to scream at the top of her lungs, waking everyone in the house. She was so scared, in fact, that the only way her Mom could get her to calm down and stop was to slap her across the cheek. She refused to sleep in that room the rest of the time that Doris and her kids lived there.

Even though she didn't sleep in the room anymore, she still liked to play in there. One day she was sitting by the toy box in the room and happened to glance over beside her. The toys in the box began to move and a hand, came out of the middle of the box. Obviously she was horrified again and ran away screaming. No one was hiding in the box and they took all the toys out to show her it was fine. But if you ask her, to this day, she will tell you that she loved staying with her family, but she hated that house with everything in her.

I've never been inside the house, but Mom has driven me by it several times. Someone lives there right now and I've often wondered if they have had any chilling experiences like my Mom's.