The Ghost Who Would Not Die: A Runaway Slave, A Brutal Murder, A Mysterious Haunting

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Write a product review. His fellow captives hanged him from an oak tree, and his ghost is said to still stalk the place. The glowing orbs appear just behind your car, and the sounds of his victims follow them along the roadside. A second ghost with glowing eyes resides in an unfinished house on the plantation. If you have a good heart then the ghost takes the form of a white woman that waves at you. The Hunt-Morgan House, historically known as Hopemont, is famous in its own right.

Thomas Hunt Morgan was born there in , and he won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Nicknamed Aunt Betty, James cared for the Morgan children in the midth century. Along with his brothers, Charlton acted as a pallbearer for Betty when she died shortly after the Civil War. Betty was buried in the family plot. After her death, one of the Morgan children became very ill. A nurse was caring for him but dozed off. When the nurse approached, the figure vanished.

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The child later died, and the nurse told the story to Mrs. Morgan and learned that the family had given red shoes to Betty as a gift. Morgan was overjoyed that Aunt Betty was still around looking after the children, believing she would look after her dead son in the afterlife. Today, the house is a museum , and you can visit should you like to try and see Betty for yourself.

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The place is a bed and breakfast today , but when it was a private home, its third floor housed a slave couple and their young son George. He spent his days running errands, tending the stables, and playing by the river. Some stories say George had heard his parents were on a ship, and he drowned in Charleston harbor trying to reach them. The most accepted story is that he ran away but was caught, and when the owner collected George.

Apparently, he sometimes obeys. One of the most famous uprisings in the history of slavery was led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia in Rebel slaves killed 55 people, and many more slaves were killed in revenge. The act made many slave owners uneasy, and they marched their most unruly slaves further south to be sold to anyone that would take them.

One such slave was named William, and he was sold to a farmer named Benjamin Hocking. Hocking was a brute with a short temper and a penchant for violence, while William was a natural rebel whose spirit had remained unbroken by several owners.

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Together they were a volatile combination, and Hocking became increasingly harsh in his treatment of William. Eventually, William had had enough. He was arrested and thrown in jail, and the sheriff happily turned him over to a violent mob. The angry crowd took the slave into the countryside and beat him to death with leather straps.

One story says that a few weeks later, a farmer passed near the area where William had died. He heard screaming and assumed another punishment was in progress. When he went to investigate and possibly join in he saw a slave bound, screaming, and writhing in pain.

Ghost Who Would Not Die: A Runaway Slave, A Brutal Murder, A Mysterious Haunting

Yet there was no one else around, and the slave seemed to be suffering at invisible hands. The farmer fled, but many other people claim to have seen the ghost of William, tearing at his bonds. In Allen County, Kentucky sits a cellar with a doubly deadly past. Not long before the Civil War, a house stood at the site, owned by a married couple who kept 15 slaves.

The book does not take away from our beliefs, but expands on what we thought we knew. I was happy to meet with Linda Dewey as a result of the affect this book had on me, and my students , letting her know of my own novel written before I read her second book , which also deals in the handling of the Afterlife by spirits whom have no clue that that is where they are.

Linda's book has inspired me to feel good about my own completed novel, and where I am going with my own investigations into the paranormal ethically done. I don't think I could have easily found another book that would have allowed me to make use of Expository Writing and Creative Writing, all in the same box. I am happy to have made this second book a required reading for my students.

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I must include that I've had a student at one of my institutions that told me this about Linda Alice Dewey's second book: I am just an old, stupid, retired military--metal-worker. When I picked up this book, I could not put it down.

I just kept reading and reading. I just had to know what happened next. My wife, she wanted the book after me!

This student took a different path, educationally; yet, he actually called to tell me that he is still reading that second book. I am just starting to use it at my other college in Vermont. I will see how they feel about it. Mixed feelings are OK. Not everyone has to believe it. What students are looking for are the elements of story, of deep spiritual thought, of life.

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I cannot say "Thank you" enough to Linda Alice Dewey. Mar 10, Dusti rated it really liked it. Interesting - a ghost story told from a ghost communicating with a live woman. Interesting in that it wasn't just a tale of the ghost's life, but what happened to him after death and how and when he crossed over to the light. Dec 14, Mitzi rated it it was amazing Shelves: Gives a detailed story of a slaves life, what happens when he dies, the story of people in his life. Took me about 4 hours to read this, did not want to put it down. Tee Wood rated it liked it Feb 04, Jacqueline Murphy rated it it was amazing Nov 12, Isabella rated it really liked it May 18, Jennifer rated it liked it May 26, Salix rated it really liked it Sep 09, Jennifer rated it really liked it Oct 17, Gary Peterson rated it it was amazing Feb 26,