Frequent readers of this column know how superstitious I am. Business took me to rural
My business partner, fellow author r. r. bryan and I recently bought an old oil well in with the intent of recompleting in a new zone. Being oil promoters as well as writers, we turned a percentage to a man we know in
Today, I was in the county on other business. A few miles from the well in question, I came across an old sign so I stopped to take a picture. I was blown away when I read the inscription and this is what it said:
This land was founded by Jacob Derr in the land run on September 16, 1893. Others making the land run of 1893 were C.B. Kirk to the southwest and the west, H.C. Swingle to the east, W.R. Whitaker to the northwest, B. Lowman to the northeast. Pat O’Neil to the southeast.
I know, the name is fairly common and it could just be a coincidence. Maybe, but I can think of at least two more possible explanations that involve reincarnation and the supernatural. On the other hand, I am a fiction writer with a well developed imagination. I’m posting the picture at the bottom of the page and fiction writer or not, I think you will agree that it’s still kind of creepy, and you can draw your own conclusions.
