Lubbock has its share of urban myths, unexplainable events and ghostly legends.
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As in the first book, I have not altered these stories, except to correct some of the grammatical and spelling errors.
I finally got enough.
I put the late submissions aside, hoping to have enough someday to do a sequel.
Submissions continued to roll in long after the book went to press.
The first Haunted Lubbock book was published in late 2014.
Those were the Stories I was looking for.
If you personally experienced something ghostly in Lubbock, or if someone very close to you, like a mom or a brother or your wife did, I want to hear about it.
And I don\'t want to hear a story that you heard from a friend, who heard it from another friend, whose cousin heard it from his mailman.
Someone asked me, What do you mean by true stories? My response: I don\'t want to hear the tired old tales we told around the campfire when we were children trying to scare each other.
I had to go back and amend my original request by specifying that I only wanted true Stories and not fiction or fairy tales.
Some of them were too outlandish to be believed.
Instead, I got a landslide.
In the summer of 2013 I asked a simple question of Lubbock residents: Have you experienced anything of a ghostly nature which took place in or close to Lubbock? I expected at best a handful of responses.
That isn\'t to say there aren\'t More believable Ghost Stories though.
But no one was ever hung from the trellis or thrown off of it.
And yes, there have been documented cases of devil worshippers and animal sacrifices in the wooded area just east of it.
Yes, Hell\'s Gate is a spooky place, especially at night.
And there is no record to support the Stories that train passengers were once robbed atop the railroad trellis now known as Hells\' Gate, their bodies thrown off the trellis if they had no money to give.
The Memphis man and the Levelland Highway hitchhiker are nothing More than optical illusions.
Presumably people who grew tired of high school kids fulfilling dares by knocking on their doors at all hours of the night and driving by their home constantly to take photos.
It was merely a house built of an uncommon design, and occupied by ordinary everyday people.
For example, the prison house never belonged to a man who killed his family and built a walled house to punish himself for his evil deed.
Others are pure hogwash.
Some, like the Lubbock Lights, were well documented and cannot be disputed.
Lubbock has its share of urban myths, unexplainable events and ghostly legends
