Palos Verdes South Of LA

South of Los Angeles is a large hill called Palos Verdes, It is home to multi million dollar homes, an abandoned marine amusement park and winding roads that creep along sheer cliffs. 

Below the cliffs surges the Pacific Ocean that crashes onto the rocks below. Palos Verdes south end is eroding into the ocean at a very alarming rate, marking such notorious places as Sunken City, where you can stare off the cliffs and see old paved roads jutting out of the water. 

And Portuguese Bend, the road that crosses the slipping land. The hills above Portuguese Bend are where my story takes place. When I was a teenager we used to go for rides up in Palos Verdes, our boyfriends would take us there to scare us with ghost stories in hopes of getting us to cling to them in fear. A favorite was a place called the Vandenberg Mansion. 

It was located a mile above the road and burned down some time in the early part of the century. We would go up to the area and you could still see some wreckage on the grounds, whether it was the mansion or not or even if the mansion ever existed I do not know, but I know something strange happened to me up there. 

My friend and I were exploring the area. It was about 4:30 in the afternoon and twilight was approaching fast, it was overcast and a little drizzly. I decided that we better head back before it got too dark, when I turned around to tell my friend "let’s go back" I saw a horrified look on her face! She started running backwards towards the car. 

When I turned around and looked in the same direction, I could not see anything but started running anyway because the expression on her face crept me out. I chased my friend down the hill yelling at her to tell me what she saw. 

Only when we got back to our car and drove off did she finally tell me what had scared her so badly. She said she saw an old lady standing right behind me, so close she couldn't believe I didn't see her. She said that she looked like she was dead and was wearing a black dress and hat and the hat had a long peacock feather in it. 

My friend was shivering and was so freaked out! I had never seen her like that. It was about a month later. I was driving through town and was stopped at a red light. When the light turned green….. 

I stared at my dashboard and did not know what to do. It was like I forgot how to drive. The car behind me honked it's horn and sped around me into the intersection. I heard the sounds of breaks and metal smashing as the car that went around me was plowed into by a fast moving truck. The person in the car that passed me was killed. To this day I do not know why I suddenly couldn't drive into that intersection, but it saved my life. Something an eyewitness said at the accident scene has haunted me ever since. 

He asked me what happened to the lady that was sitting in the back seat of my car, the one wearing the black hat with the peacock feather

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