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Kammerer gives some fascinating tales of the season. He talks about a ghost car at Stokes, the apparition of three hanging men at a tree near Farmville and ghost lights at tobacco barns and cemeteries. There are several tales of ghost sightings in Greenville, the haunted property of Krispy Kreme built on Civil War graves and several haunted houses in the College View section.
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22849
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[Mr. Kammerer drew the cover of this issue] Beginning as early as 1890, ghosts, hauntings, and even ESP (extra sensory perception) have affected the lives of many Pitt County residents. Kammerer related a story from 1890s about a large ghost that would come out about 4:00 am to stand sentinel over piece of land on Dickinson Ave. It would only bother those workers building the railroad through the property. Kammerer tells of a cluster of haunted houses in the College View district and the reaction of witnesses. There is an unusual story from 1898 of a haunted clock that tolled when death was near, even with its works missing. And lastly, in 1906, the sister of Royce Tucker, lost her ring. She couldn’t find it and later went into the country for a visit. While away she dreamed that her ring was under a writing tablet on her bureau. Returning home, she immediately looked at the place her dream indicated and found the ring.
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23016
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Kammerer presents a number of tales about the haunted Greene Street bridge and a headless Civil War statue in the river under the bridge. There is the tale of the Pactolus Light and another haunted spot in the woods along a highway nearby. There is also the story of the haunted Kittrell house that was being restored in the county. This collection helps to accentuate the Halloween atmosphere..
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23033
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Kammerer relates some of the older tales of the unexplained he has been told from Pitt County’s past. He talks about how Halloween was celebrated before the Civil War, with watch nights and vigils, church services and visits to family cemeteries. He relates tales told around a hot wood stove of strange events, spooks and hobgoblins. There are tales of ghost talkers that frighten both men and beasts. Along the river road north of Greenville there were sightings of a “Thing” or man running on all four s loping like a dog and a headless man, who passed wagons a short distance and then disappeared. Another “Thing” or hobgoblin was reported seen by some that either hitched a ride on a wagon, weighing it down such that the horse could not pull it, or one that rode on the wagon for a while and then disappeared. Some people could hear death “rings” before someone died, or saw spirits of the recently deceased. There is a story of a death bell that called people home.
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