EIGHT – GHOST STORIESI’ll always remember those times when a group of us went to visit a fellow classmate, Carmen. Her mother often told us stories about spirits and people coming back to life; this was way before we’d ever heard of zombies. Unbeknownst to us at the time, her culture celebrated death and spirits, and her kin worshiped their ancestors. To us teens, we thought ‘Mama Devilme’ was a voodoo priestess or something, but dared not to ask or get on her bad side – none of us wanted her to curse us for life. To us, everything she told us was plausible and made sense! After all, who could make up stories like this?
Carmen’s great-grandparents originally came from Haiti and settled in Louisiana; most of her relatives also lived there. When the families visited, much of their conversat
