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August 2004 – Page 14

The Palm Desert Demon
by Talia

When I talk to people about this, they think I'm making it up or just give me funny looks, but this is the honest truth of what happened.

In 1987, I was carpooling home in my new Trans-Am with a male co-worker named John at 2:30 a.m. We just finished our shift at a local nightclub in Palm Desert, California. He did bartending and I served cocktails. We had to drive many miles home as we both lived in the "high desert" area above Palm Springs, some 30 miles away.

At that time, there was much undeveloped land on either side of the roadways we took to drive home. John was a smoker and I was not. John suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette. I did not want him smoking in my car on the way home, so I pulled over on a deserted side street to allow John to exit the car and proceed to smoke. There was no street light on the street we pulled over on, no traffic at that time of the morning, just the moon. Before exiting the car, John dropped his lighter on the passenger floorboard and he began to fidget to find it on the floorboard.

Suddenly, we both had this strange feeling that something huge was hovering over the top of the car. Neither of us said anything, but we both felt the exact same thing. We were so scared! We looked at the hood of the car and I could see what looked like huge wingtips flapping very rapidly, with individual feathers fanned out on the ends. The wingspan stretched over the entire hood of the car. This "thing" was huge. And, it was not a bird in the moonlight.

Next, I felt this terrible feeling like doom or evil pouring over me like someone was pouring a huge vat of honey on top of my head, and this doom feeling started dripping down over my body. I next felt as if this huge "thing" was going to land on the top of the car. I started sinking down in my seat as if to avoid having this "thing" land on the car and crush me. My friend John, had the identical feelings and reactions I did, but we still had not said one word to each other during this entire incident. We were so freaked out!!!

I decided that the only way to save us was to start the car and then I raced the heck out of there. On the drive home we talked about our perceptions on what just happened and that is when we found out that our thoughts and feelings were exactly the same, even though we had not spoken to each other while it was happening. That made me really scared. We had no idea what that was, but we both felt this was something evil that was trying to hurt us.

I do not drink, smoke or take drugs. I am a sane, level-headed, mature Christian person and I still am freaked out by what happened to us way out there on that deserted road in the desert. I have no logical explanation. I have asked several people though the years what this could have been, and some said it may have been a demon looking for a soul to take.

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