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From: "SFC John B Langford Jr" <>
Subject: Re: [KY-FEUDS] RE: The Bell Witch of TN
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:11:05 -0500
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"Ghosts along the Cumberland", DEATHLORE IN THE KENTUCKY FOOTHILLS, by
William Lynwood Montel. Copyright by the University of Tennessee Press,
Knoxville.
GR100-K4M66 398.2'7'097691 74-32241
ISBN 0-87049-165-2 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-87049-535-6 (pbk,: alk. paper)
Page 194
#446
The Voice from the Grave
"Where I use to live on a farm before I married, there was an old family
cemetery near our house. The people who lived there first told us, when we
moved there from the city, that if you would go there on a new moon and
close your eyes and stand near a grave and put your hand on a headstone, you
would say, 'What are you doing down there?' And they would always answer.
"I didn't believe it but being very brave, I got a girlfriend to go with
me and when the time came that the moon was new, we went there. My
girlfriend was afraid to shut her eyes, but I shut my eyes and put my hand
on the headstone, And said, 'What are you doing down there?' A voice from
down below said, "Nothin-n-n.'
"We took off in a run, and we never went back again after dark."
Taylor County, 1964 (GS), Informant: female, born ca. 1920 in Taylor
County.
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The next time I visit my HALL Family Cemetery, IT WILL BE AFTER DARK. If I
get some answers from those in that cemetery, a new "Blood Harlan County
Feud Book" will be written.
John B.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Wanda Shepherd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [KY-FEUDS] RE: The Bell Witch of TN


> Hi Bud,
> I wish I knew how to run/make? a website. I'd do one on ghosts. I have
loads
> of stories my Grandpa and Grandma told me, supposely true. Wanda
>
> wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 7/18/01 8:42:16 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > writes:
> >
> > << From my own POV I wish we did have a good Ghosts of Kentucky list- >>
> > Seems to me that if those 'ghosts' had anything to do with feuds it
would be
> > okay even on a rootsweb list.
> > Bud Caudle
> >
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