Did A Christmas Angel Appear In A Lubbock Parking Lot?

Just like every town has that ghost story, I'm pretty sure they've all got that Christmas story, too. It's a story that nobody can quite prove, but everyone swears is the real deal. And in Lubbock, ours involves a broken heater, a Walmart parking lot, and a stranger who may or may not have been Santa, in a pair of steel-toed boots.

Legend has it, one December night in the late '90s, back with Christmas decorations stayed up far past February, and nobody ever locked their cars, a sudden cold front knocked the pants off our city. It hit much harder than expected, and it wasn't just "grab a jacket" cold. I'm talking, COLD. The kind of cold that makes you wonder if you'll ever be warm again. It was the kind of cold that makes you JUST SURE you'll find black toes in your boots when you finally get somewhere warm to thaw out.

A young family's car died in the parking lot of the grocery store. It had a shot battery. There were no jumper cables in the trunk. No cell phones, maps, or AAA. It was straight-up bad vibes and panic.

Suddenly, a man in a Carhartt jacket, a red and black ball cap, and a pair of jeans so starched they could probably stand on their own, allegedly pulled up in a beat-up old Ford. He hopped out, jumped the car, and then handed the shivering mother a thermos full of cocoa and a few paper cups, and told the kids in the backseat, "Tell your daddy not to ride the brakes."

Then, he was gone, before anyone could even catch his name...

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The father went inside Walmart and asked if they could pull security footage of the man jumping their car to find a license plate for his truck. He wanted to track him down and personally thank him. Unfortunately, the footage skipped 10 minutes, exactly when the family was broken down...

The manager told him the cameras must have been faulty and offered him a $100 giftcard for his trouble...which is exactly what he was short on rent after buying Christmas presents for the kids.

No photos. No proof. Just a story that surfaces every year when it gets cold outside, and people start treating one another nicer for no reason...

Was it Santa? Was it an angel? Or was it just a regular day in Lubbock where miracles seem to come together in the nick of time?

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Merry Christmas!