It's Halloween season, which means that all over the country, people are trading local tales of the macabre and paranormal. In Norwich, Connecticut, for example, someone at a bonfire may be telling the story of the orchard that once grew bloody apples in the area—or how the ghost of the infamous traitor Benedict Arnold is rumored to still haunt his mother's grave nearby. Farther down the East Coast, residents of Virginia Beach must be marveling at how Grace Sherwood, accused of witchcraft there in the early 1700s, was allegedly subjected to the water-ducking test, convicted, and imprisoned—and still survived to live out her life for years after.
Paranormal enthusiasts in Chilton County, Alabama will no doubt have plenty of accounts of the otherworldly to share with investigator and author Kim Johnston when she visits for a book signing, like the haunting of neighboring Old May’s Plantation by its founder, Robert Rushing. And surely, in Dayton, Ohio, a courageous group of friends will take a drive in hopes of witnessing the ominous entities reported to appear at a stone lookout tower just outside of town—including the image of a teenager who died when she was struck by lightning there in 1967.
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