Yvonne Stimson- Chasing a Ghost
Another time, we got haunted. It was Sunday. We had those… what they called choir. It wasn’t time for church and we were told to wait outside. This graveyard wasn’t there yet, where they put us. There we saw a someone all dressed in black. We all ran to the fence; we were yelling loudly and waving. It would stop and start… We finally noticed, it wasn’t touching the ground, it was floating. My younger sister, Lorraine and another one, I think it was Rose Mary, chased it. Over here, what they call four houses, he ran in the midst of there. When they ran there, there was girl outside, chopping wood. They said to her, they asked her, “did you see someone run through here?” “No there wasn’t.”
Here it was a ghost what they chasing.
– Yvonne Stimson (Pretty Beaver Woman)
Notes:
Oral interview with Yvonne Stimson (Pretty Beaver Woman). Conducted, translated, and transcribed by Gwendora Bear Chief. Old Sun Community College, March 30, 2022.
