GHOST STORIES OF KNOX COUNTY
(AND NEARBY LANDS)
"My mother lived there with her mother and her brother and I can remember both Mother and Grandma telling me about the ghosts who were in this house."Bicknell Newspaper Employees Spooked By Spoof of Ghostly Coal Miners
"Now, I had worked many, many late hours in the newspaper office alone and had never heard any strange noises, but my coworker insisted he had, so I told him it was the coal miners who had been killed in the explosion returning to the mine rescue station to thank the brave men who had brought their lifeless bodies back to the surface so their families could claim them and bury them properly."Ghost Comforts Couple in Bicknell Haunted House
"Several such episodes occurred and Mr. Jones was always accused of the deed, until finally it was like he was a beloved member of the family. His presence was never frightening, instead the two looked forward to his visits."In Old Vincennes, 1890
"The unearthly white object walked deliberately along the street and paused at the gate. It looked most frightful in the dark."Robeson's Hills Hollow Has Its Own Headless Horseman
"In the midst of these hills is a deep, dark ravine, where the rays of the sun never penetrate."
"However, despite the horrific story connected with the place, the hollow is a good place to take a quiet walk."'Hollow'ween
"Was the hollow attracting another victim...?"
"Folklorists tell us that these legends have much to do with coming-of-age and courtship practices of adolescents."Tale of Witch's Curse
"The ghosts also called on Cato's kinfolks and hovered around her cabin in the twilight."
"It soon became deserted on account of the rumors of strange sounds and unearthly apparitions that greeted the ears and eyes of the belated travelers who happened to pass the place."Ghostly Woman in White Reenacts Tragic Death Along Vincennes-Lawrenceville, Ill. Railroad Tracks
"A few years later, I heard the first mumbles about some kind of a ghost story. It was something about a girl in a white dress, but that's a pretty common theme for ghost stories. You didn't hear the kids whose dads worked for the railroad talk about it though."
"But I found out that there were other people who knew about it. And I heard other railroaders talk about it after they'd retired and couldn't be laid off. It happened through the 1950s, I was told, when they first put radios in the cabs of the locomotives and in the cabooses so the crews could talk to each other and to the stations they passed by. Sometimes a crew up front would hit the girl, and see her go under the wheels and they'd call on the radio back to the caboose and the crew in back would look for anything unusual. The ones in back never found anything."
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