Our Story comes from David Larsen. David is a regular contributor to the show and also was a part of The Horror Express. David is from Ogden Utah.

Hey Ron, this isn’t my story exactly but it was one I was told as a child.

Growing up I had an elderly neighbor, his name was Mr. Schade ( pronounced ska-Dee ). For five dollars, the occasional bit of smoked salmon, and as many stories as we had time to go through I would Mow his lawn. Oftentimes I would mow the lawn after lunch and then enjoy stories until my mom would come calling me for dinner. This story is from World War II and is about one of his friends who I will simply call “Mr. C.” and how his ankle injury had saved his life. 

It begins on an LCVP or Landing craft Vehicle Personnel. They were crammed into these boats like sardines. Mr C and his mates were landing on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 and were some of the first few hundred young men to storm the Nazi’s pill boxes. They were terrified but knew that what they did that day needed to happen and would help to topple the Third Reich even if it was only a foothold. For Mr C.?  He remembered praying that he would get to come home and that he would get to see his family again. 

The doors slammed open and he and his mates had no hesitation. They sprinted towards what looked like certain death. He passed what he called “shapes of young men” who had already fallen to enemy fire. He sprinted past them scared, but determined to take the ground they needed to take. 

The crack and rattle of shells and small missiles whizzing past unrelenting was all around him. Then more cracks and booms centered in on his position and a searing pain shot through his ankle sending him to the dirt. Mr C looked up only to see his panicked friend firing on a pillbox. He watched in horror as his friend fell to the ground from the gunfire that surely would have been his fate. He was shot by accident as his friend had panicked and shot him through his ankle saving his life at the price of his own. At this point Mr C stopped his story and lifted his pant leg. With a smile he showed us his fused unmoving ankle and remainder of the scars he earned that day. 

I hope I did his story justice, and I am so thankful to him for everything he did and for telling me this story. Mr. Schade is now 94 and still goes fishing on a regular basis. He has always been like a grandfather to me. – David Larsen – Ogden Utah

Thank you David for that story, and I thank both Mr C and Mr Schade for their service.

This Week’s Podcast:

On the podcast this week we have two stories from the OTR series Blackstone, The Magic Detective. Blackstone must uncover The Riddle Of The Eightball, and Rhoda comes face to face with a real zombie in a story titled The Riddle Of The Seventh Zombie. You can listen to this podcast on Thursday at Ron’s Amazing Stories, download it from Apple Podcasts, stream it on Stitcher Radio or on the mobile version of Spotify. Do you prefer the radio? We are heard every Thursday at 10:00 pm and Sunday Night at 11:00 PM (EST) on AMFM247.COM. Check your local listing or find the station closest to you at this link

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Our story comes from Minnie Swan. She writes to us from Michigan and her story truly is amazing! Have you ever seen the horror film Christine? Well, here is the farm version of it …. sort of.

Hello Ron, we have a saying here, “You know you’re from Michigan when your idea of a traffic jam is waiting for ten cars to pass a tractor.” My story is about just such an event and I can’t wait to tell you all about it. 

I was 13 years old and was going to a dune buggy race with my dad at Silver Lake Dunes. He raced in an annual event there. We came up to a traffic jam. Get It Traffic Jam. It was going amazingingly slow as each car passed the tractor. Everyone seemed very interested in what was going on with it. Finally, when it came time for us to pass my dad let out a shocked gasp, he pointed at the drivers cab and there was no one there. The tractor was driving itself. 

We have another saying in Michigan, “Why build a straight road when you can put curves in it.” I don’t know if that is a real statement, but if you live here you know it’s true! This road we were on was quite the example. Somehow this tractor was following the road. Very slow, but doing it.

My Dad drove ahead and found a place to park our rig and set to wait for the tractor to show up. My dad’s plan was to get in the tractor and bring it to stop. Others pulled over to watch the show as well. The problem was that the tractor never came around the corner. My dad bought a motorcycle along with us and he took it off the trailer to go find out what had happened. He came back a few minutes later, and said he could find no sign of the thing nor had it run off the road.  Others tried and failed to find that tractor.

I offer no explanation for this, nor can I prove any of it. It was the late 80’s and I don’t think they had the tech to make a self driving tractor in those days. – Minnie Swan – Michigan

What a crazy story and one I say has to be true. It is a head scratcher for sure and I can’t imagine making it up.  Thank you Minnie for your story. It truly belongs on Ron’s Amazing Stories!

This Week’s Podcast:

On the podcast this week we have a real mindbender of a tale called Delayed Action. It comes from the science fiction pulp mags of the 50’s and was suggested to us and read for us by Paul Hampton. I have a pre-podcast assignment for you. Do a bit of research on what a Mobius Strip is. It will help unwind this one. You can listen to this podcast on Thursday at Ron’s Amazing Stories, download it from Apple Podcasts, stream it on Stitcher Radio or on the mobile version of Spotify. Do you prefer the radio? We are heard every Thursday at 10:00 pm and Sunday Night at 11:00 PM (EST) on AMFM247.COM. Check your local listing or find the station closest to you at this link

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