Kathryn Tucker Windham - 13 Mississippi Ghosts and Jeffrey
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Accounts of ghostly and spiritual happenings at thirteen locations throughout Mississippi.
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All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
First paperbound edition published 1988 by The University of Alabama Press Box 870380 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 / 8 7 6 5 4
ISBN 0-8173-0379-0 Library of Congress Catalog No.: 74-15509
Page v
Contents
The Faithful Caretaker At Pontotoc
9
"I'll Wait Forever!"
19
Flag Stop
31
Where The Witches Danced
41
Out Of Devil's Den
53
The Long, Long Visit
63
The General
73
The Rebellious Miss Archer
81
The Lovely Afternoon
91
Little Girl Lost
103
Nellie
117
The Cameo
127
That Black Cat
139
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Page viii
Lochinvar is near Pontotoc.
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The Faithful Caretaker At Pontotoc
The hunt had been disappointing. Though the dogs had treed once, heralding their accomplishment to the countryside, the coon had escaped. So around midnight, after a cold rain had begun to fall, the hunters left the woods and took a short cut across a pasture to the road where they had parked their pick-up.
They were about halfway across the open pasture when they first saw the lantern bobbing toward them. At first they thought one of their companions had got separated from them in the dark and was trying to catch up. They stopped walking and called, "Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo! Come on! We're waiting! Come on!"
But though they shouted several times, there was no answer. The light kept moving closer, but its carrier was strangely silent.
Suddenly the men were uneasy, filled with foreboding.
"Hey," one of the group whispered (he later was not sure why he had whispered instead of speaking right out). "HeyThat's not one of us. We're all herenobody's missing. Let's get out of here!"
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They ran through the dark to their waiting pick-up, tumbled in, and sped toward Pontotoc.
Once they had reached the safety of the town, their fears subsided, but even the brightly-lighted streets and the familiar buildings did not entirely erase their feelings of uneasiness, of strangeness.
"What was it we saw?" they asked each other. "What kind of lantern was it?" And none of them had a satisfactory answer.
"It wasn't fox firenot a jack-o-lanternI've seen that glowing in the woods plenty of times. It wasn't that. I know it wasn't fox fire," one of the men asserted.
"It was a lantern for sure. But it wasn't right somehow. Something wasn't natural...."
"The way it moved was scary. Made me think it was threatening me in some way," his companion interrupted. "Sounds stupid to say I was afraid of a lanternbut I was."
Next morning when the hunters met for coffee at a Pontotoc cafe, their experiences of the night before still filled their thoughts and conversation. They re-told the events, much to the amusement of other coffee-drinkers who chided them with questions about what they had been drinking and teased them about their fears.
While the teasing was going on, an elderly man rose from his table at the rear of the cafe (after fifty years of regular patronage, he had become as familiar a part of the decor as the chrome napkin holders or the heavy sugar bowls with their hinged tops) and interrupted the chatter to ask,
"Where were you when you saw the light? Out near Lochinvar?"
"Why yes. We were taking a short cut across the pasture there. But how did you guess?"
"It wasn't a guess," the old man replied. "I've been listening to you all talk, and I was pretty sure you'd seen the
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