It was a good late October day in Hazzard.
The weather was just perfect for the time of year, with a crisp fall breeze,
everything appeared to be perfect. But things are not always as they appear,
especially in Hazzard. The silence of this peaceful spot was broken as
the General came tearing down the road being chased by Rosco for speeding
"Dang it Rosco, again." Bo said agitatedly.
"This is getting down right annoying. He's
been chasing us every day this week." Luke said looking back at Rosco chasing
them.
"Yeah. Lose him Bo." Daisy said.
"You got, hold on." Bo said.
They lost Rosco and were hiding out for a while to be sure he
was long gone. Bo and Daisy were laying on the hood of the General and
Luke was leaning against the side, when a bulletin came across the radio.
"There has been another reported ghost siting
added to the increasing number of sitiengs this week. As well as more unexplainable
occurrences. This is also a reminder of the 11:00 curfew that has been
set by the Sheriff until he gets to the bottom of this." announcer said.
"Ghosts? I think all them people are seeing
things." Bo said, with a laugh.
"Well I don't know Bo there as been a lot
of people at the Boars Nest talking about seeing ghost or strange things
happening." Daisy said.
"Maybe they's all been drinking then." Bo
said.
"They all can't be drunk." Daisy said.
"Bo is right Daisy. There is no such things
as ghosts. People are just imagining things being as it is almost Halloween"
Luke said.
"Well I don't know about that." Daisy said.
"Come on you don't believe in all these ghost
stories do you Daisy?" Bo asked.
"Well yeah kind of. I mean strange things
have been happening in Hazzard lately, and I think that if they could be
anywhere it would be here in Hazzard." Daisy said.
"I think if there was they'd leave quick cause
Boss would be trying to charge a fee for spooking or something." Bo said
laughing.
"Don't tell me the both you believe in ghosts."
Luke said
"I think there is such a thing." Daisy said
"I'll believe in ghosts when I see one." Bo
said.
"Your both crazy." Luke said.
Then they decided that Rosco should be long gone and start to
head back to the farm.
"Bo look out it looks like that guy wants
both sides of the road." Luke said.
Bo swerved to avoid him but the car follows his swerve, then
they all could see the driver was a corpse and then the car passed right
through the General.
"What was that?" Daisy asked frightenedly.
"I have no idea, must have been some kind
of optical illusion." Luke said.
"I don't know. Luke you want to drive?" Bo
asked.
"Well I think we ougtta get out and check
around, for mirrors or something, I mean it had to be an illusion." Luke
said.
So they get out and look around but can't find anything. They
headed back to the farm. Luke drove and Daisy sits in the front seat next
to Bo, and Bo puts an arm around Daisy's shoulder. They told Uncle Jesse
what happened when they was coming home.
"So are you saying there really are ghosts
here?" Uncle Jesse asked.
"Well I wouldn't say that it had to be some
kind of trick." Luke said.
"Then why didn't we find anything. There was
something out there." Daisy said.
"Daisy has a point there was something out
there." Bo said.
"Look you two it was just an illusion and
tomorrow we will go look around there better, it was getting dark maybe
we missed something, there is no such things as ghosts." Luke said.
"Well do the ghosts know that?" Daisy asked.
"Yeah well we'll just get Luke here to go
tell them they don't exist, that ougtta help." Bo said with a fake little
laugh.
Luke went to respond but Uncle Jesse told them to knock it off.
So then they all ate dinner and after dinner the topic came back up and
they started to fight about it cause both Bo and Daisy believed there was
ghosts and Luke was calling them crazy, and Uncle Jesse refused to
take sides. So then everybody went to bed angry.
In the middle night Bo had a bad dream and woke up. Then Luke woke
up to and went over and sat on the edge of Bo's bed and put a hand on Bo's
shoulder.
"Are you okay?" Luke asked concernedly.
"Yeah I guess I'm fine, it was just a dream."
Bo said.
"You want to talk about it?" Luke asked.
Bo don't say anything just turned away from Luke.
"Was it about what happened early out on the
road?" Luke questioned.
Bo looked back over at Luke. "Yeah kind of" Bo said.
"Look we're going to get to the bottom of
it all tomorrow, don't worry about it. Just try to get back asleep." Luke
said.
"Look I am sorry about fighting earlier, it
just that..." Bo started to say.
"Forget it." Luke said.
Bo laid back down, and Luke went back over
to his bed. Luke waited till after he thought Bo was asleep for a couple
minutes before going back to sleep for himself.
The next morning after breakfast Daisy went
out to go to work and Dixie would not start. The boys went outside.
"Dixie won't start and I am already late."
Daisy said.
"We'll give you a ride to work then, and then
we'll see if we can fix Dixie up." Bo said. "And take care of the
other." Luke added.
"Yeah and that." Bo agreed.
They gave her a ride to work, Bo drove.
When they get to the Boars Nest they decide to go in for a beer. The Boars
Nest was already quite busy, everyone was sitting around talking about
having seeing a ghost or having something strange happen to them, when
a cold chill entered the room. Things started to fly around glasses smashed
into the walls, tables and chairs over turned, and all the doors started
banging open and shut. Then it was all over about as quick as it had started.
Boss and Rosco came out of Boss's office and looked around at the damage
"What's going on out here? The Duke boys,
I should've known you were behind all this."Boss said.
"Now wait a minute we had nothing to
do with this." Luke said
"Oh tiddly, your just lying, now I'm gonna
cuff ya and stuff ya."Rosco said.
So the boys were arrested and taken to jail.
Boss set the bail at $500, and locked them up in the cell downstairs. Then
when Boss and Rosco went back up a cold chill went threw the office, and
things began to fly around then it stopped just as before. They decided
then it wasn't the Duke boys and if they let them out and didn't tell them
why maybe then they'd get to the bottom of the problem to try to clear
themselves. So the boys are heading back to the farm.
"Why'd they change their minds and let us
go?" Bo asked.
"I don't know, they have to have some reason,
maybe they are going to try to pin more on us." Luke said.
They got back to the farm and told Uncle Jesse what had happened.
They decided they have to do some investigating. They fixed Dixie, and
went get Daisy from the Boars Nest which had closed to clean the mess up.
Uncle Jesse and Daisy went to check out along the road were the occurrence
had happened the other day. The boys went to the graveyard because a lot
of people had reported seeing strange things when they've passed by there.
The graveyard looked like it had been trashed, many stones were over turned.
Bo went to call the others on the CB to tell them what they'd found, when
a strong wind came up, pinning Bo to the General and knocking Luke to the
ground. Then a stone flew up and was hanging above Luke, who couldn't move
and then it began to fall.
"Luke!" Bo shouted concernedly.
Then another breeze came and knocked the stone
away and it fell harmlessly to the ground beside Luke. Then all the wind
died. Bo ran over and helped Luke to his feet
"Are you okay?" Bo said putting a hand on
Luke's shoulder.
"I think once I start breathing I'll be better"
Luke said and gave a little smile. "Are you okay?" Luke asked.
"I'm just scared half to death." Bo said.
Then a ghost appeared a few feet away from them
"Then again."Bo said with a nervous laugh.
"I hope there has been no harm done. Many
of the ghosts of Hazzard have been upset from the destruction of the graveyard
and have been making their presence known. But all the damage has not been
done by us ghosts, there is mortals from another place, and some ghosts
thought you to be them"Ghost said.
"Well it ain't us you're been causing problems."
Luke said.
"I do know that. I know you are from this
town and are good people not evil." Ghost said.
"How do you know all that?" Bo asked.
"I can not tell you that, just that I know.
If you wish to learn the truth about what has been happening look in the
old caretakers shack at the far side of the yard" Ghost said, then vanished
into thin air.
"Okay what was all that about?" Bo asked.
"I have no idea. Maybe we should go check
out that old caretakers shack. What do you say?" Luke said.
"Yeah, I think maybe we should." Bo said.
They went to the shack and found fresh
tire tracks all around. Inside the shack they find plans to rob the bank
and burn down half of Hazzard square to cover to escape. They contacted
Uncle Jesse and Daisy and told them to meet them in town. The boys went
to Boss and told him what they found and showed him the plans. But He didn't
believe them and said that they are behind everything and is going on.
Boss told Rosco throw them in jail. The alarm goes off at the bank
and there's an explosion at the cafe. The boys spotted the van taking off
and jumped into the General and followed it. They easily caught up to it
within moments. Luke decided to jump across onto the van to get it to stop.
"Just be careful, would ya." Bo said.
"Ain't I always." Luke said.
Luke jumped across and got the van He reached in the drivers window
and grabbed the steering wheel. The van slammed on its brakes, almost causing
Luke to fall off. The guys got out of the van and tried to run away
into the woods. The boys caught them, they tried to fight, but were no
match for the boys, who quickly subdued them. Rosco finally caught up and
took them and the stolen money back into town, and locked them up. The
fire was quickly put out and no real damage had been done. The bad guys
were sent away to the state prison. The ghosts that had been haunting Hazzard
stopped, and the graveyard was to be cleaned up. Things went back to normal
in Hazzard.