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Originally posted by Stingy Jack
Thanks for the story MovieMan ... but, I guess you know I don't believe in ghosts and have a tendency to agree with your wife on this one ( :) ).
But, if you seriously think you saw something out of the ordinary, and feel the need to investigate further just to put your mind at rest, you can always go to the chamber of commerce and check out the files on the property. Go through the files, looking for any information about the school house or the farm house. They should have information on any structures built on that property. Get yourself some dates. When was the school house destroyed, when did the farm house burn?
Once you have the dates, go to your local library and hope they have a pretty good collection of periodicals for your area. Look up newspaper articles for the dates you acquired, and see if they have any more information you can go off of. You may have to use a microfiche for this one.
Of course, there might be an easier way to begin research on this ... although, I have never done research on property before, so I'm just stating what I would do with my lack of experience. You could always just go to the chamber of commerce and ask someone how you would go about starting your research, and hope they are able to tell you more than I can. :)
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I agree with you on the ghost thing, I never really believed they existed. I called my Dad this morning and he said to go to the Courthouse and do a Title search, he said that would show any previous owners of the property, he said they go back a long way, since it deals with land issues.
The farmer who I bought the property from is 76, and he said they tore the school down when he was a kid, and it was old and falling down then. He said he remembers his parents talking about the house burning down but he was also very young. I'm going to be working out there over the weekend, so you know I'm going to keep an eye out for anything..! I am also going to take a walk over to where the old house stood and do some poking around. There is an old cistern, and part of a basement/root cellar. It's open to the elements and one side has caved in, but there might be some artifacts in there.
I'm wondering if I really want to know if anything happened around here, I enjoy sleeping, and the last few nights haven't been the best. My wife the darling she is was also going around last night saying how, my going to see the new Exorcist movie has caused this, being it's so close to Halloween.