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- Aug 25, 2012
Halloween is approaching so we all need to come up with some Civil War ghost stories.
I will start with a story, but it may not be a real ghost story. However, did happen to me.
Years ago my wife and I visited a cemetery in a village where many of my relatives are buried. As I walked about I saw a Civil War headstone which was almost completely imbedded in a tree. Some badger or other animal had decided to make their home in the roots of the tree. There were some human bones from the long dead Civil War soldier laying on the ground which the badger had dug out.
I told my wife I should rebury the exposed bones. However, I did not have anything to dig with so I kicked a small hole, shoved the bones in, and kick dirt over the bones. My wife was appalled and thought I should drive the one mile to my uncle's house and get a shovel and properly rebury the bones of the Civil War soldier. She also thought I should have been more respectful.
I did not want to drive to my uncle's house so I told her the dead soldier did not care if I shoved his bones in with my foot or gently laid then in the hole I dug. Because she likes to get the last word she said she thought the dead soldier should haunt me.
Not being they type to take ghost haunting to heart I laughed it off. Several times in the next couple weeks I woke up an night and in the dark I felt an eerie feeling like something was in the room. Could it be that my wife got her wish and the Civil War soldier was paying me back? Well if so, he quit visiting me and life returned to normal. Or did it? The next time I went to the cemetery I walked past where I believed the tree with the embedded Civil War maker should have been and I could not find the Civil War marker. I have been to the cemetery many times since and not found the embedded Civil War headstone. So I call this the Case of the Missing Headstone.
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