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     further, was Sam Clow's Hollow, where horses of night travelers were 
     
     repeatedly frightened; in fact there were a number of runaways at this 
     
     point. 
     
    

    
     The brook at the curve of the River Koad, at the foot of the BigiHill, ~ 
     
     was the scene of a widely-reputed haunt. So far as I have ever heard, 
     
     nothing was actually sighted there, but horses used to balk violently 
     
     against crossing the little bridge. . . 
     
    

    
     West River Bridge was noted for reports of the frequent sightings of 
     
     vari-colored lights that appeared at points above and below, as well as 
     
     upon the bridge, in the vicinity of the draw. It was believed that those 
     
     lights presaged drownings. | 
     
    

    
     I had an uncle who was an avowed skeptic -- an absolute disbeliever in | 
     
     all tales of Supernatural phenomena. Many times I have heard him declare 
     
     that those weird stories were the products of idles, foolish minds whose 
     
     owners had never in their lives entertained a sensible or /eons tructive 
     
     thought. One night he was visiting in St. Catherine's at the home of a 
     
     family friend who had passed away several weeks previously. As he sat in the 
     
     kitchen, talking with a son of the deceased, he suddenly became aware of a 
     
     third presence in the room. Glancing about, he saw his departed friend 
     
     standing behind his son's chair. When, after a minute or two, the figure 
     
     slowly faded into the shadows outside the range of the lamp, he spoke of 
     
     what he had seen. The son replied that, several times since his father's 
     
     death, he had been seen by different members of the family. Later that night 
     
     at home, my uncle rejated the incident, but thereafter seemed reluctant to 
     
     discuss it, beyond admitting that he had indeed seen something that very 
     
     definitely was not a product of his imagination. It was said that he was 
     
     never again heard to dismiss reports of spirit sightings as mere nonsense. 
     
    

    
     In an episode that might well have become another entry in the annals of 
     
    
   
   
    
     eerie events, I played a prominent, though quite involuntary, role. Ona