Re: [DL] OTish: True ghost story for Halloween

[Sitting Duck <sittingduck_1313@yahoo.com>]

--- Chris Beilby <christopherbeilby@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sitting Duck" <sittingduck_1313@yahoo.com>
> To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:46 AM
> Subject: [DL] OTish: True ghost story for Halloween
> 
> 
> > This happened a while back at Colonial
> Williamsburg.
> > It seems that some of the women that worked there
> (the
> > ones that wear period costumes) were to attend a
> > seminar being held at a local historic church in
> the
> > morning. So they arrived on schedule wearing their
> > work clothes as well as some hooded cloaks as it
> was
> > damp and foggy that morning, but the seminar guy
> was
> > late. After some waiting, they here a car coming
> up,
> > so they figure it's him and go greet him. But
> instead,
> > it's a tourist from New Jersey. So when he sees
> these
> > hooded figures in 18th century garb coming out of
> a
> > foggy graveyard, he immediately hits the
> accellerator,
> > crashes into a tree and, not getting out to check
> the
> > damage, backs up and zooms off into the wild blue
> yonder.
> 
> Having worked there myself, I can most definitely
> believe it, even though I
> can't confirm the actual incident.

My source of information for this incident was Volume
One of The Ghosts of Virginia by L.B. Taylor.

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