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However, in 1981, when an old humpback bridge was taken out and replaced by a series of culverts covered by a concrete bridge, the skeletons of two women and three men were uncovered by the excavation. This discovery bore out the sketchy tale and the bodies were reburied in the local cemetery, on the other side of town, miles from where they’d laid all those years.
There have also been reports about a ghostly Model A Ford that will come careening off the gravel road, and crash upside down in the creek that runs by the home of the Weeping Woman.
No one seems to know where this car came from or who was driving it, but the story is that on an icy winter night, an accident occurred. The car hit the uprights of the wooden humpback bridge at the bottom of the hill, and flipped into the creek.
The bodies of a young couple were found almost a mile downstream a few days later. A small boy of about five years old was found at the same time in the old house. Although the boy lived, thanks to the “nice white lady” that took care of him, he seemed completely traumatized by the ordeal. Eventually he was sent back east to live with relatives.
In recent years, the ghost car has put in several appearances, one night literally running a lumber truck off the road and into the creek. The driver and his assistant were able to bail out of the truck and land in a ditch unhurt, before their runaway truck crashed to a stop in the creek. The men looked, but could find no sign of the old car that ran them off the road.
Efforts to save the old homestead have long been abandoned, due to the paranormal activity and lack of funds. However, there is one brave soul who did build a log house on the other side of the road. It took him five years longer to build than he’d planned, because the site was plagued by one mishap after another.
In 2010, just one year after the house was finished, he went out into the woods and took his own life, for reasons only known to him. A journal kept in his home and located after his death, told a tale of haunted happenings in and around the house across the street. Although no one knows why the man chose to end his life, the speculations run wild, as they do in a small town, and they all lead to the haunted house across the street that is home to the Weeping Woman.
Many years have passed since that day when I first met the Weeping Woman. The house is little more than a pile of rubble now, and the only thing standing is the lower half of the massive fireplace.
The log home across the street is also empty, and the local wildlife has already started to reclaim it.
Although the locals claim that on a quiet, moonlit night, if the wind’s blowing just the right way, you can hear the mournful sounds of a young woman weeping, as she rocks back and forth, holding her dead baby.
Given the tragic history of the house, I’m not really surprised at the amount of paranormal activity occurring there. I believe that most of the activity is residual, meaning there isn’t a ghost present, just a period of time replaying itself, over and over like a tape recorder. However, the presence of one or more intelligent entities is not out of the realm of possibility.
Yet, because of the tragedies that have befallen that one parcel of land, one can’t rule out the possibility of all that negative energy attracting a demonic entity that would amplify the apparent paranormal activity already occurring there.
Furthermore, it could help explain the suicide of the neighbor across the street. You see, demons need to feed— and they feed on energy—lots of it. Since the home of the Weeping Woman wasn’t occupied by a living soul, it would make sense that a demon would search out the closest available living being, so it could feed.
Being in the presence of a demon, or having a demon occupy your home, isn’t pleasant by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it would be downright terrifying and could, given the right set of
There have also been reports about a ghostly Model A Ford that will come careening off the gravel road, and crash upside down in the creek that runs by the home of the Weeping Woman.
No one seems to know where this car came from or who was driving it, but the story is that on an icy winter night, an accident occurred. The car hit the uprights of the wooden humpback bridge at the bottom of the hill, and flipped into the creek.
The bodies of a young couple were found almost a mile downstream a few days later. A small boy of about five years old was found at the same time in the old house. Although the boy lived, thanks to the “nice white lady” that took care of him, he seemed completely traumatized by the ordeal. Eventually he was sent back east to live with relatives.
In recent years, the ghost car has put in several appearances, one night literally running a lumber truck off the road and into the creek. The driver and his assistant were able to bail out of the truck and land in a ditch unhurt, before their runaway truck crashed to a stop in the creek. The men looked, but could find no sign of the old car that ran them off the road.
Efforts to save the old homestead have long been abandoned, due to the paranormal activity and lack of funds. However, there is one brave soul who did build a log house on the other side of the road. It took him five years longer to build than he’d planned, because the site was plagued by one mishap after another.
In 2010, just one year after the house was finished, he went out into the woods and took his own life, for reasons only known to him. A journal kept in his home and located after his death, told a tale of haunted happenings in and around the house across the street. Although no one knows why the man chose to end his life, the speculations run wild, as they do in a small town, and they all lead to the haunted house across the street that is home to the Weeping Woman.
Many years have passed since that day when I first met the Weeping Woman. The house is little more than a pile of rubble now, and the only thing standing is the lower half of the massive fireplace.
The log home across the street is also empty, and the local wildlife has already started to reclaim it.
Although the locals claim that on a quiet, moonlit night, if the wind’s blowing just the right way, you can hear the mournful sounds of a young woman weeping, as she rocks back and forth, holding her dead baby.
Given the tragic history of the house, I’m not really surprised at the amount of paranormal activity occurring there. I believe that most of the activity is residual, meaning there isn’t a ghost present, just a period of time replaying itself, over and over like a tape recorder. However, the presence of one or more intelligent entities is not out of the realm of possibility.
Yet, because of the tragedies that have befallen that one parcel of land, one can’t rule out the possibility of all that negative energy attracting a demonic entity that would amplify the apparent paranormal activity already occurring there.
Furthermore, it could help explain the suicide of the neighbor across the street. You see, demons need to feed— and they feed on energy—lots of it. Since the home of the Weeping Woman wasn’t occupied by a living soul, it would make sense that a demon would search out the closest available living being, so it could feed.
Being in the presence of a demon, or having a demon occupy your home, isn’t pleasant by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it would be downright terrifying and could, given the right set of
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