"GREAT GRANDMOTHER"

When great grandmother was around 14 years old, bandits raided her family's small plantation in Mexico. They slaughtered everyone except her and a sister. They were separated and she was taken to their boss's hideout deep in the desert. The leader was an old woman who ran the bandits. The mysterious old woman needed a student to pass her knowledge. Why HER? We may never know.

For years she was trained in the ancient and dark arts of the supernatural until the day the old woman died. Think Sith from Star Wars, one master and one apprentice. Lucy was 18 and left for Texas with the male leader of the bandits ( old woman's son). They made their home in the west and northwest regions of Texas. There she gave birth to her first son which is my grandfather. There, she practice and improve her skills.

My great grandfather was hardly home and came back time to time to give her money. He gave her large sums of money that would last months or even years at a time. He was a well skill bandit and traveled all over the U.S. And Mexico. He became extremely wealthy. The law finally caught up to him and he was killed. That is what she said. Yet, only a small portion of the money was ever recovered. He hid it very well and he always “disposed” of he's gang after every heist.

Lucy raised grandfather by herself. I don't know if she had a great hatred for he's father or too busy but, she never taught her son to read or write. Yet, my grandfather was hard worker and never gave up through out he's life. When he was young man, he fell in love with a half Irish/Apache woman at a flea market. It was love at first sight. She was not happy at all. She didn't want that bloodline to mingle with hers but, he still married her. Lucy developed a plan to punish them both and took years to plan. It was never known how it was done but, it worked. My grandmother became paralyzed and couldn't talk or move very well. She stayed like this till her death . The last moment before her death, she whispered to her “I forgive you.” Right after that, she fell ill with crippling pain. Her health too began to fail. Decades later, she was only able to move only her eyes . I seen it for myself! I was eight years old at the time. My mother and I were in Texas visiting aunt Betsy before she died. When I was in her room, I felt her frighting aura. It was the last time I saw her. She passed away couple of years later.

THE SWORD FROM THE BEYOND

My great grandmother was given a sword by the old witch that was said to belong to a fallen god or something close to it. It was extremely deadly and was wrap with a special cloth to hide its aura. Witches and the supernatural seek after it's power for countless years. She was 18 and left for Texas with the male leader of the bandits. The sword was one of many relics she brought with her to Texas. The sword was like a spirit amplifier and drained large part your life force ever time its was used. So one must have already have unusually high spirit energy. It could harm the intangible and unseen. It was used to cut a tornado in half to save several homes. But it caused a bad drought that year as she predicted. So it was used once for that.

The used of the sword drew an evil presence to the town. One night, the house was attacked by a fire-like entity. The entity's light shined on the entire neighborhood like light of the morning dawn. Around twenty people or so saw this entity. It smelled like sulfur and was circling the house that she lived in. Then, it jumped onto the roof and called her name. She came out and drew out the sword from its cloth. It demanded the sword and she refused. It charged her. She quickly swung the sword and cut it in half. Its' body disappeared into the wind as ash. She became very weak and asked for the oldest grandchild, my uncle. The sword was shattered and its shards hidden though Texas and the nearby states.




THE CRYSTAL EYE


This is also an item that was given to my grandmother by the old woman. It was said to be found in a Maya/Aztec ruins by the old woman or her predecessor. It is a light blue crystal eye that is a little larger than a grown man's hand. In the iris of the eye is an image. The image is a hooded person facing a burning bush. But one can't hold it for a long time. It gives off a weird energy. Some feel a warm/hot feeling and while others feel a cool/cold sensation. It might be radioactive. I don't know it has anything to do with the crystal skulls that are floating around. Lucy never indicated its proper use. It was buried with the other relics that my Uncle secretly hid.



THE ROTTENING BOOK OF LIVING FLESH

My great grandmother had a book like the infamous Necronomicon of the H.P. Lovecraft tales and the Evil Dead movies. It was another item she got from the old woman. My mother said the book was very dangerous. She picked it up and looked inside. The language that it was written in was unfamiliar. It was made of some kind of skin and flesh. It gave off a extremely foul smell like rotten flesh.
There was a companion books that came with it. It was notes from other owners that translated some of it. The last entries are in Latin, others appeared to be much early languages from the middle east region. They appear to be at least a thousand years older if not older. Lucy never used the book. She told them that anything in the book was truly evil and can't be trusted.
One of my aunts became very religions and attempted to destroy it. She threw many books that great grandma had into a fire with my mother's vast comic book collection ( she deemed them evil as well). When the bonfire was over, the book was untouched. It was ice cold and still stank of decaying flesh. My uncle Frank took it and other remaining relics. He hid them in the foundations of several federal buildings.

THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE

In the early fifties, two individuals made an unlikely alliance. A witch ( great grandma Lucy) from a long dead covenant and a government sponsored doctor ( Pearl ). They worked together gathering the unnatural and the paranormal. She would bring him the remains of supernatural things she slain or found. He would collect the deformed (mutants) and talented ( like indigos for an example). The “good” doctor studied the remains and shared his theories with Lucy and his employers. They discovered the DNA was the key to unlocking greater power and its' control. The doctor left to a third world country (Africa or South America) to experiment undisturbed and it appeared he was successful. He came back with an organism( probably a virus) that would revolutionize he work in the paranormal. Hes previous work cost the lives of several dozen to hundreds of children. The actual numbers my never be know. A cousin of my mother had just been born. Dr.Pearl picked him up and said he was not what he wanted. He stab the newborn in the chest with a needle and injected a poison that kill him.

With the new improved knowledge, Dr Pearl took seven newly pregnant women from different backgrounds and injected them with series of "vitamin shots". When all the children were born, they all had familiar characteristics. The one characteristic that sticks out the most was the super high I.Q. By age 8, all the children were smart as high school and college students. Pearl studied them for years and reported there progress. Around the age of 17-18years old, something horrible happen. All except one of them developed extreme mental and physical deterioration. Then they all suddenly died. Their mothers quickly followed them as well. The Doctor's employers were not happy at this failure and sent their agents to "clean up". These men resemble the infamous M.I.B. They killed the doc and made it look like a suicide. The hospital he work at burned down. Any records they were found outside the hospital were altered. They didn't go after my great grandmother ( they probably didn't have enough firepower), but they hunted the last survivor for nearly eight years and nearly had her.

That survivor was my mother. The men came to her fathers house looking for her. He told them that she died and was burn to ash like his Apache ancestors. They believed him for the moment. Meanwhile she fled to Florida to die. Yet death never came. Years pass by and my mother married my father. When she did, somehow it got the attention of her hunters. They came to place of work. The owner told them that he doesn't know that individual or employed such person. They left but didn't believe his story. The strange men staked out the area for days. They realized that she lived on the owner's property itself. One fateful day they found their target on her lawn with her son (me). One of the men pulled out his rifle from his black car and set his aim. My mother saw the men and told me to run away. I was like 2-3 years old at the time. Before he was able to fire, bullets flew by him. The owner and several workers were armed. They were driving trucks and taking aim at the strange men in black. The men jumped back into their black car and drove off. They never came back to my knowledge. But my mother had a strange feeling that they were never faraway.

HER BELIEFS

She didn't belief in the power of God,gods, demon and devils. All the power she needed was inside her already she stated. What little of what I know about her belief is this. “To wield this power one must posse a powerful spirit to master the countless levels. Control your emotions or your weakness will be your downfall.”

GHOSTS

Ghosts come in two categorizes to her. Residue haunting, tragic deaths and overprotective spirits are one. It is what most people have encountered and document. Now there are some ghosts, spirit and angel sightings that are witness that are not what they appear to be. They are a deceptions. For they are a race of entities that toy and feed off the life force of humans. They are psychic leeches that posse an omni like intelligence. An illusion surrounds them which is nearly impenetrable and can fool the best mediums. Amusement is the name of the game when they reveal themselves as past spirits. Ouija boards and seances attract their attention easily. If your easy game, they some how “tag” you and troubles follows. Shadow things and people will follow the trail where ever you go.

LUCY'S POWERS

Lucy had several different abilities that were seen or known to the family and Dr.Pearl. Telekinesis was the main back bone of her natural skills. She could teleport small items through walls and land them in front of her. She use it to fight and kill her enemies. Flight was the second most used skill. She would use this to travel from place to place without anybody noticing. She couldn't drive or have someone drive her to locations quickly when called on. Some of the family witness her in action.

BATTLE IN THE GRAVEYARD!

It was the middle of the night that Lucy was marching around in the house. She was very angry and then left. Before she left, she told someone she leaving. She said that she was going to the graveyard and not to follow. My uncle, my mother and couple of my aunts waited several hours and followed her anyway. My uncle had the only vehicle and drove to the cemetery which was several miles away. They parked the truck and crawled through the cemetery. Sounds of women yelling was echoing through it. The gang followed the source of the noise. There were two groups of women. One which was Lucy and a local wiccan verses a large group of women in black. Great grandmother and the leader of the women in black were yelling in foreign tongues. Suddenly, the woman in black coughed up a long fork tongue and started to chanted a possible spell. Lucy quick raised her hand and gestured a breaking motion. The woman's neck broke and fell dead. Someone in the gang made a sound and Lucy turned and looked at them. They all got up and ran to the truck and speed off. The pedal was hitting the floor. They were almost home when they saw blue lightning type flash and boom pass them. “What the hell was that?” crossed their minds. They made it home to find Lucy was waiting for them. She scowled them for following her to the confrontation. They never did that again. No one knows how many battles she had with other witches and such. It was widely known that Lucy had many rare artifacts that were deeply desired by negative forces. They constantly tried to obtain them when an opportunity appeared.

THE GIANT BIRD

It was a time when great grandmother was very ill and could not travel. So, her grandchildren drove her are around. One day on such a trip they encountered an attack on them. It was in broad daylight, when some one noticed a huge bird in the distance. That was one big vulture they though until they got real close. Suddenly, it spreads its wings and they were bigger than width of the road and the body was tall as a man. It appeared that they ran into a “Thunder Bird” but, it wasn't. This bird was wearing jewelry. They stopped the car and cars on the other side of the bird stopped as well. It approached their car and started to talk in Spanish. “ Where are the books?”and “ Give me the books!” were heard coming from its' beak. People who were coming to see why the traffic was being held up saw and heard the bird fled in fear, even the local police. This distraction gave one of my aunts time to grab one of great grandmother's mystery bottles and threw it at the bird. It splashed on the bird's face and it started to smoke. The bird started to scream and flew away.

THE PUPPETMASTER?

Before the time that Lucy's health took a turn for the worst, she had many contacts in scientific and medical communities through Dr “Pearl” and his employers. Representatives from several pharmaceutical companies were seen entering the home. What was discussed and/or trade was never known. There were many accounts of Lucy healing people with affections that baffled the local doctors. Yet, she dealt with Dr Pearl in his eugenetic experiments that kill dozens, if not hundreds, of women and children. And what research that Pearl had vanished after his murder. Lucy kept quiet about her dealings with him. She once stated “Everyone who is alive today and tomorrow owes me their lives.”Was she a benefit to the human race or her test subjects. We may never know how much she has influence the world.