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WHITNEY LEESON AND TOM CARTER
HEATHER BRUSH
also "Larry's scary friend," says Allen, "some sort of
negative entity that hitched a ride back from India
[with her dad] when I was 13 or14 years old. We
had no actual visual encounters, just a feeling." The
negative entity didn't get a name.
There was an incident where a large tree was being
cut down by a neighbor, a tree the neighborhood
kids favored. "While watching we all got the heebie
jeebeez and felt like someone was there behind us,
watching," Allen says. "That was the first time we
ever felt something odd there."
Allen has "made a 38-year study," of ghostly
experiences and "there were a lot of interactions.
...This region has a lot of geological quirks that make
it especially good for certain types of hauntings."
DAN SMITH
Former journalist HEATHER BRUSH of Franklin
Count y has written "a whole book-length
manuscript of real ghost stories ... I collected over
50 stories from ... all over the country, and several
were my own."
She lived in a house under construction and
"occasionally, I would be cutting and piecing
sheetrock and bringing it up the stairs through the
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plastic walls. I'd hear someone rattling around in the
kitchen. No one was there but my [18-month-old]
daughter and I, and she was napping. Later, when I
got to spackling the upper rooms, the sweet, warm
scent of bread baking would waft up the stairs. I
certainly wasn't baking. I don't know who the family
was that lived there, but she seemed to be letting me
know she was happy I was fixing the homeplace."
TOT LANGHAMMER, daughter of the late Virginia
State Senator Leonard Muse, lived at Oakland near
Fincastle as a youngster. It is a 5,000-square-foot
19th Century farmhouse with eight rooms. Her
mother talked of "a lady ghost. ... I never saw her,
but at night I heard things I shouldn't have."
Others occasionally said they saw an apparition
and "I stayed awake at night and heard noises and
felt a presence."
Langhammer's mom was host for Garden Week
one year and a participant put a Japanese flower
arrangement on a mantle. "Mom told [the lady
with the arrangement] that the ghost wouldn't
like it and in the night it fell and was destroyed."
The flowers were replaced with a more appropriate
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