INTERVIEW Ghosts
and Haunted Houses
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Interview over the telephone with Mildred Tyner, present owner of Lessland in Orange County, November 28, 1995. Interviewer:
Do you believe that your house is haunted? Interviewer:
How old is Lessland? Interviewer:
You mention that other people have had ghostly experiences in your house,
could you describe some of these experiences? We rented the house to a family for about two years. She said that the lady saw a "very ugly lady" dressed in black in the back hall. Soon after that experience she moved out of the house. I do not know who this apparition could have been, I went back and looked at family pictures and although they were not beauty contestants, I do not consider anyone in my family ugly. My great-grandmother always wore black and was even married in a black wedding gown. I had an old trunk in one of the rooms in the house that we used as storage which had some old dresses that belonged to my great-grandmother and other family members. Apparently, the lady had gone through the trunk without permission. I just told her that she got what she deserved. My daughter lived at Leesland
for a couple of years. One evening my daughter was upstairs sewing.
She glanced out the window, and saw a man looking in through the window
at her. Two days later, I received a picture of the tombstone of James
Cooper Dickerson, who had been married to her great-grandmother. I thought
that this was a bit odd. I located some old family photographs of James
Dickerson, and showed them to her daughter. She exclaimed, 'That is
the man I saw looking through the window.' My daughter identified the
ghost as Mr. Dickerson from the family photographs I showed her. My
great-grandmother is buried at Lessland, and Mr. Dickerson is buried
in Caroline County, where he was born. Interviewer:Has
anyone ever described the same experience or gave an acurate description
of a ghost that matched the description of someone in your family? |
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