March 22, 2014
Subject: Lucy Gallows and the Ghost Road—Primary Docs?
Things have been a little quiet on the Lucy front lately, but I stumbled across an interesting account in an old paranormal zine (found somewhere very bad for my asthma and let’s leave it at that). This guy claims that he and his wife traveled a “ghost road” and he mentions Lucy Gallows. This account is from the 1970s (!!) which makes it one of the earlier first-person accounts we’ve found (if it’s true, of course).
The zine had a bunch of water damage and it’s totally falling apart, but I did manage to scan this part before it turned to brown mush:
to the end, barely. What we experienced along that road would fill volumes, and I don’t know if I can bring myself to write about much of it. We found evidence that we weren’t the first to travel along it. Eventually, we reached the end—or an end, at least. And there we met a girl. She said her name was Lucy. She asked us for help. She said she’d been stuck on the road for some time and couldn’t escape on her own. I was eager to find a way to help her. At that point, any other human contact was welcome. But my wife became distressed.
She pulled me aside and told me that she knew the girl—or knew her voice, at least. She kept referring to “whispers that scratch at the inside of my skull” and called her “the gallows girl.” She insisted that we had to get away from her. That we couldn’t trust her.
I’m not proud of what we did, but by that point we had learned that the only way to survive was to trust one another’s instincts absolutely. And so when we had the opportunity, we ran together, and left young Lucy behind.
[Illegible] ended her own life less than a year later. [Illegible] still dreamed of her. [Illegible] journals, they were filled with Lucy’s name, along with two words, scrawled randomly through normal entries: Find her.
The one really incongruous thing is that this couple is from Missouri. They hitched a ride on the ghost road just outside of St. Louis, which might be why none of us have found this particular bit of Lucy lore.
—mnemosyne_amnesiac