Greybeard, The Ghost of 489: Greybeard Series
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The legend of Greybeard, the ghost of 489 lingers to this day.
An innocent man's life taken, a ghost taking vengeance, and the people he encounters along the way.
Some will remember him with a surreal kindness as he befriends them. Others will not live to tell their story.
Have you done something dreadful in your life? Have you wronged someone?
Did you cross the line into immoral behavior? If so, steer clear of Superstition Mountain in Arizona, and Greybeard.
This is his story.
Sherry Hutchison
I am a multi-genre author. I was that book geek hanging out at the local library every Saturday. I stepped through those doors into a magical world in which anything was possible. I spend my time between Missouri & Texas with my hubby Chris and two fur-babies, Max & Maisie.
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Greybeard, The Ghost of 489 - Sherry Hutchison
For Chris:
Once a trucker, always a trucker at heart. The continued creative imagination of these characters may be mine but the birth of greybeard
will always be yours.
Thank you for your collaboration, your ear and expertise trucking knowledge.
This story is for you, my trucker man. We’re taking it on down the line.
A Truckers Poem
Take me down that road Mr. Trucker, man.
I want to see what you saw way back then.
Let me shift the gears and feel the strength beneath your hands.
Tell me some stories of days gone by.
Bet it was cool back then,
To put the pedal to the metal and let the gears unwind.
Had your CB Radio and a convoy nearby,
Listening to the County Mounty and the Big White Knight,
As you slip down the back roads keeping out of sight.
Can I back it up like you used to do? Just once for old times’ sake.
Soon I’ll be an older man, just like you.
Wish I could have even half the memories you have of way back then.
So, go full throttle just as quick as you can and take me down that road,
Mr. Trucker Man!
Sherry Hutchison
Prologue
No-one knows for sure how much of this ghost story is real and how much has been fabricated over the years. One thing is for sure. There have been numerous sightings and claims of a ghost-man driving a big black 359 Peterbilt, truck number 489, down Route 66 late at night. He has been sited from Los Angeles, California all the way through to Chicago.
Most of the sightings are usually in the deserts of New Mexico and Arizona. Greybeard was from Arizona, his lady friend lived and worked in Oklahoma, so Route 66 took him straight through on his runs.
One could drive several hundred miles with your view consisting of desert, lonely highways and scattered small towns.
The well-known Superstition Mountain lies north of Phoenix, Arizona. It is said there is a legend that the Indians Great Spirit
lives on this mountain.
This would certainly be a good place for a ghost to hang out.
Some say they have seen him getting out of his rig on the side of the road. He usually has his gun in its holster. Sometimes he’s holding it down at his side. When asked how they know it’s a ghost they say because they can see through him.
There have been reports of people seeing gold and red lights straight through his body. Most say his skin looks grey and wrinkled. He is always surrounded by a grey fog. The sightings usually come at early dusk and late evening.
Then there were the truckers and civilians on C.B. radios.
Many stories could be heard of the strange, whispered radio calls from Greybeard.
Breaker, breaker, you got Greybeard 489. Clear and standing by. Send me another one down the line.
You may ask, just how do they know this isn’t a real man on the radio? Sure, it could be someone pretending to be Greybeard.
However, stories from the old-timers, who have been on the road for thirty years or more, tell a tragic story of an OTR Trucker named Douglas Greyson. Rumors say his hair was always grey even as a young man, and he was half Navaho Indian, so the nickname Greybeard was given.
He always wore a large cowboy hat and carried a Ruger Super Blackhawk 44 Magnum. This was a preferred gun of choice by truckers in the eighties.
The story goes that the night that Greybeard died was believed to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. His rig was found sitting off of the roadway just south of Superstition Mountain in Phoenix Arizona. It had been burnt to a crisp. His body was lying in the brush just off the road. He had been shot in the back twice. A knife was sticking in his neck.
Greybeard was known to be a gentle, kind man. He’d give money out at the Truckstop’s to anyone who needed to eat. He never married as far as anyone knew, although there were rumors that he had a son somewhere, however it was never proven.
He was not afraid of anyone or anything. He believed in retribution and an eye for an eye. He would not have gone down without a fight.
Perhaps he meant to stop on the lonely road to grab a few hours sleep as many truckers were known to do. Perhaps he saw someone waving him down for a lift or help. Maybe he saw something he wasn’t supposed to see. Shooting anyone in the back was a coward’s way out for sure.
His body lay in the dirt and brush for several hours before a lone passing trucker pulled up to take a leak on the side of the road. The police were called, but with little to no evidence, the case reportedly went cold.
The Old timers say his murderer or murderers were never caught. It is said that if you see his ghost and live to talk about it, then you must have done something good in your life.
Some say his spirit remains restless until he avenges his death. There’s no telling how many haven’t lived to tell their story. Other stories have him looking for someone or something.
Greybeard was killed two weeks before Halloween in 1986. Every year