Ok. This might be kind of long. My freshman year, sunday before veishea (the '04 riots veishea), we decide to kick the week off by getting bombed, and then had a friend who wasn't drinking that night drive us out to Crazy House (what we call the place). The story we heard about the place was that it was built in memory of the two sisters who had been killed in a hit and run, waiting for a ride to school during veishea week in the 70's. The dad (who lives in a run down house across the street) had supposedly gone crazy, built the thing in memory of his daughters, and waited in the van under the yard light of his home, with a shotgun every night, in case the car that killed his daughters ever returned to the site (they were supposedly hit right there). First, we drove by the place to try and get a glimpse. We couldn't see much in the dark, but we could see how creppy the memorial was, and we saw the van sitting under the yard light at the old man's house. Well, we park about 1/4 of a mile away, and start walking up to crazy house in the dark. As we get closer to the house, the old man's dog starts barking crazy. All of a sudden we see the door of the van open and shut. At this point, we scramble back to the car, and start driving back to Ames as fast as we can down the gravel. We get a half mile down the perfectly flat gravel, and BAM! headlights turn on, within 20 ft. of our bumper. We speed up trying to lose the old man who is obviously chasing us now. As we approach the Boone/Story line, where the road turns to gravel, we see a car approaching from the north, and think if we blow through the intersection ahead of that car, we can lose the old guy. Great theory, except that guy was a Story County Deputy. He puts on cherries, pulls us over, old guy turns around. Somehow, even though we were 18 and 19, all drunk except the driver and had booze in the vehicle, while blowing a stop-sign at 90mph, when he heard our story, he completely believed us, and let us off the hook, only taking the booze we had with us. Easily one of the craziest things that has ever happened to me. I have never been so freaked out in my life.
