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to tend hor flower beds and rosebushes on what had also been a lawn in her: day. One of my aunts, a very dependable and level-headed person, maintained that over the years she had seen the apparition numerous times. Personally, I never saw anything that might lend support to her statement -- put neither did I ever make a practice of looking through our front windows on moonlit summer nights.

A little further along the ‘road, night wayfarers claimed to have heard the sound of moaning from the orchard at the Ambrose Collins home. This was believed to be. the spirit of a member of the Collins family who had died of wounds during the Crimean War.

Still further west, on the bridge that spanned Rogerson's Brook, an unusually tall, heavily-veiled woman was described as pacing to and fro with one hand raised above her head. Night drivers declared that their horses balked at crossing the bridge, and would go ahead only when the driver got down and led them by the bridle. Foot-travelers complained that they had difficulty in getting past the central point of the structure; some likened the experience to walking against an exceptionally strong wind.

At Duncan MacGillvray's forge in Churchill, horses were reportsd as being spooked by a light that flashed across the road at ground level.

Beyond the crest of the long hill near the New Haven-Bonshaw line, stands the old Stewart house -- now a historical landmark. Here on overcaai

seemed to be winter nights, according to passersby, a woman/be hurrying into the drive- way, but without actually changing position. It was thought that this was the spirit of a girl who had perished in the great blizzard of 1888.

The Colville Road, too, had several haunted spots. The first was on our farm at a point known as "the Quarry" where some sort of headless

animal was said to have been seen. A little further along, was "the-

Swamp" where shadowy forms were frequently reported. A half-mile still