Melville, Louisiana Ghost Story

"The only healthy old man here is Comeaux," Comeaux said, gathering coffee cups from the counter. "That's because he walks the floor in here 10 hours a day and doesn't have a wife to nag him. I guess they nag. I never had a wife."

This happened about a month ago just outside the little town of Melville in the bayou country of Louisiana, and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's real.

 

This guy was on the side of the Hwy 105 road hitchhiking on a real dark night in the middle of a thunder storm. 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 ghost-like in the rain.  It slowly crept toward him and stopped.

Wanting a ride real bad the guy jumped in the car and closed the door, only then did he realize that there was nobody behind the wheel.  The car slowly started moving and the guy was terrified, too scared to think of jumping out and running.  The guy saw that the car was slowly approaching a sharp curve, still too scared to jump out, started to pray and beg for his life, he was sure the ghost car would go off the road and into the bayou and he would surely drown, when just before the curve, a hand appeared thru the driver's window and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend.

Paralyzed with fear, the guy watched the hand re-appear every time they reached a curve. Finally the guy, scared to near death, had all he could take and jumped out of the car and ran to town.

Wet and in shock, he went into a bar and voice quavering, ordered two shots of whiskey, then told everybody about his supernatural experience. A silence enveloped and everybody got goose bumps when they realized the guy was telling the truth and not just some drunk.

About half an hour later two guys walked into the bar and one says to the other, "Look Boudreaux, ders dat idiot that rode in our car when we was pushin it in the rain."

1950 - Misses Charlotte and Jane Long, Miss Betty Thomsa, Miss June Able, Misses Faye and Glenda Bordelon were the guests Saturday in Palmetto of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Keller and their sons, Harold and Donald at a chicken barbeque.

Home from LSU for the summer holidays are Leonard Neal Conley Jr. and Frank Cannatella.  Spending the afternoon in Baton Rouge Friday were Neal Conley, W. D. Poplin Jr., Misses Estelle Kerry, June Able, and Jane Long.

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