Monday, May 27, 2019

Terror in the Oilwell Hills

Terror in the Oilwell Hills

(Bygone Oilfields cntd.)

 <last week: Bygone Oilfields Archive

We're looking at the sketches and notes from Archive 10. These pieces would have been the raw material for one of Pete Hampton's shows, this one called "The Bygone Oilfields". Pete included his girlfriend, Gay in the shooting script, and his friend Tom Malloy in the narrative. Keep in mind that these are only sketches and notes for a show that was never finished.


We left off with Pete sneaking into the oil fields late in the afternoon. The sun has set. We'll assume that the passenger in the truck is Tom Malloy. Just ignore the inconsistencies, and hang on...




 ...What’s That! Look, something bolted in front of me over there towards that drop. Then a skeleton comes at my windshield and disappears."








There’s many strange stories passed around about this place that I heard. One guy had his arms cut off and then he ran away in the hills and they never saw him again until years later.




Then in Lovers’ Lane where cars parked a couple found a hook hanging from a car door as a man ran off. Maybe the guy lost his mind, who knows? I don’t know if it’s true or not. I don’t really believe it.



Ya, but Pete you don’t know I wouldn’t trust it.

Then there’s another story of a couple parked in a remote place where he told his girl to stay in the car while he got out and analyzed a strange greenish light. It was like a greenish mist or gas that hung over a marsh in a valley and it only appeared at a certain time, no one ever dared go near it for fear they’d never return again. Some people were evaporated they said, burnt up in a cold light.




 It’s wispy and ghostly when I think of it, Pete, like a nightmare. Only a nightmare could fit it. The her boyfriend screamed and silence fell over the place again. The boy told her not to leave the car, no matter what reason so she remained in the car till dawn when the police arrived.


Terror in the Oilwell Hills

Several years ago in the Oilwell Hills a girl waited in the car while she heard scratching noises on the roof of the car. She was told not to leave under any circumstances until her date returned. She waited all night until dawn when police arrived. She heard a scream hours earlier but no one came back again. She must have dozed off to be awakened by scratching noises above her. An officer told her to get out of the car and not look back, for a tragedy had happened to her boyfriend. She looked back and screamed in horror. His head was chopped off and he was hung from a tree limb. It was his fingernails that were scraping the top of the car to her horror…


The Hookman from the Valley of the Green Mist had attacked him while he checked it out in the night. Many have told me of these stories. Tom Malloy, Scott Young, and even a little kid. It would have been a chiller for my story on the Oilwell Hills;


This time people won’t get bored by my nature stories of the hills. This will be a smash hit with those who are restless and want excitement.

If they want beauty they can always see The Lost Canyon Trip.


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