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Tag Archives: tale
Poem: A Ghost Story
Just a prohibitively pithy poem about periodic dyspathy in time for Halloween. A GHOST STORY. “Out of their dark abodes I have roused up the screech-owls. Through the rents Of the gray mouldering walls they are fled out,
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History, Oddities, Accidents and Crazy Weather, R.I.P
Tagged adolphus, All, ghost, Halloween, Hallows Eve, Hampshire, mullner, new, New Hampshire, NH, poem, story, tale, There seizes me a horror
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A Genealogist’s Christmas Tale
I recently binge-watched the entire television series “Lie to Me.” It is a crime-drama series about a brilliant though blunt man who is a deception expert. He looks into peoples faces and notices the almost invisible twitches, tics and involuntary … Continue reading
Ghastly and Ghostly Halloween Stories Gleaned from Old New Hampshire Newspapers
With Halloween quickly approaching in the Granite State, many thoughts turn to ghouls, ghost, skeletons, and everything haunted or creepy. This need to scare ourselves silly is not a modern day occurrence. In looking back to the ancient newspapers, reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History
Tagged 2015, apparition, creepy, Devil, fish, ghost, ghoul, goblin, Halloween, haunted, made, New Hampshire, newspaper, NH, photograph, skeleton, stage, story, tale, theater, ugly, vampire
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A White Mountain Ghost Story
The wind whistled mournfully around the hotel as the story was being told, and the hearers involuntarily clustered nearer one another and waited the next gloomy reminiscence. It came from an elderly gentleman who wouldn’t vouch for its truthfulness, but … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History
Tagged death, ghost, haunted, monument, Mount, mountain, Mt, New Hampshire, NH, snow, snowstorm, storm, story, tale, Tip Top House, Washington
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Death on Mt. Washington: The Tale of Lizzie Bourne
A monument of a few rough stones originally lay near the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire where on … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History, New Hampshire Women, Travel
Tagged Bourne, death, died, Elizabeth, hike, hiking, Lizzie, monument, mountain, Mt. Mount, tale, Washington
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