ABOUT THAT GHOST

GUEST POST BY SHELTON WILLIAMS

Students, faculty, coaches, and visitors at Odessa High School have encountered Betty’s ghost over the decades. I have interviewed them, and I have doubted them to their face(s), but none of them has expressed the slightest doubt.

She haunts the old theater; she haunts the field house; and she haunts the stairwell that she once threw herself down to prove that no one would care if she fell.

She will come to your dreams; she will ask you for help; and she will laugh if you can’t quite reach her to do so.

She will rob you of your knowledge on a test; she will make you late to class; she will delay your monthly period; and most of all she will render your football team harmless in a contest against the mighty Permian Panthers. Such is the power of the Curse of Betty the Ghost of OHS.

Most of all she will understand you, but she will forever torture you about who she really was and what she was doing or trying to do at a stock pond in Winkler County on the night of March 22, 1961.

Don’t believe me? Go to the parking lot across from the theater and honk your horn three times at midnight. Just don’t tell anyone that I said to do so.