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Haunted things rambling...
May. 30th, 2011 02:45 amSo.
Rumor has it that Towner's Woods is haunted. Admittedly, I'm a bit skeptic (healthily so, as always). When I was biking through there the other day, it was quite pleasant, though I can certianly see how people COULD think it's haunted, as it's very, very dense and quite dark even during the day. But I'm still intrigued.
We're going up there tomorrow because I want to see the Indian Mound. You don't even know how excite I am, even though it's a very small one (only eleven bodies, apparently). But I've wanted to visit a mound since I was in elementry school. They fascinate me and I have no clue why.
I'm not buying the story about the ~Hopewell Princess~, though. The pioneer woman story sounds pretty believable, however.
I've spent HOURS trying to track down the name or location or ANYTHING of a tiny cemetery I went to when I went to Camp Whitewood for an end-of-year sixth grade field trip (also, where I got sunfish spines embedded into my foot!). I found the covered bridge we crossed to get there. Obviously, not the renovated one, since sixth grade was around 1994 for me. But I distinctly remember crossing the bridge and the cemetery and small church being a very short walk from it. It was a tiny, tiny cemetery and one of the guides (either a teacher or a parent) told us that the plot of family tombstones was because the parents had passed and the nanny gradually poisioned the children until they all died, one by one.
Then I discovered Edgewood Cemetery has a very similar story connected to it. But the two are COUNTIES away from each other. So either the person who told us the tale was just re-using the story, since I can find ZERO information about either this particular cemetery (which could be 'Warner Hollow' or Windsor Hollow' cemetery, as it's located near the Warner Hollow Covered Bridge), or....maybe they knew more than I do? I'm thinking its the former, however.
The church was super small, but had a small second floor with a balcony that overlooked the sanctuary. I remember getting some great rubbings from the tombstones, too. My mom still has some of them, I think.
Rumor has it that Towner's Woods is haunted. Admittedly, I'm a bit skeptic (healthily so, as always). When I was biking through there the other day, it was quite pleasant, though I can certianly see how people COULD think it's haunted, as it's very, very dense and quite dark even during the day. But I'm still intrigued.
We're going up there tomorrow because I want to see the Indian Mound. You don't even know how excite I am, even though it's a very small one (only eleven bodies, apparently). But I've wanted to visit a mound since I was in elementry school. They fascinate me and I have no clue why.
I'm not buying the story about the ~Hopewell Princess~, though. The pioneer woman story sounds pretty believable, however.
I've spent HOURS trying to track down the name or location or ANYTHING of a tiny cemetery I went to when I went to Camp Whitewood for an end-of-year sixth grade field trip (also, where I got sunfish spines embedded into my foot!). I found the covered bridge we crossed to get there. Obviously, not the renovated one, since sixth grade was around 1994 for me. But I distinctly remember crossing the bridge and the cemetery and small church being a very short walk from it. It was a tiny, tiny cemetery and one of the guides (either a teacher or a parent) told us that the plot of family tombstones was because the parents had passed and the nanny gradually poisioned the children until they all died, one by one.
Then I discovered Edgewood Cemetery has a very similar story connected to it. But the two are COUNTIES away from each other. So either the person who told us the tale was just re-using the story, since I can find ZERO information about either this particular cemetery (which could be 'Warner Hollow' or Windsor Hollow' cemetery, as it's located near the Warner Hollow Covered Bridge), or....maybe they knew more than I do? I'm thinking its the former, however.
The church was super small, but had a small second floor with a balcony that overlooked the sanctuary. I remember getting some great rubbings from the tombstones, too. My mom still has some of them, I think.
