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The Ridgeway Ghost · Ghost stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast

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Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Where we are across
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Speaker 1: the country and around the world, you are listening to
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Speaker 1: Ghost Stories and the Unusual Paranormal podcast. I'm indeed your favorite,
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Speaker 1: your favorite podcast host and investigator Joe the Ghost Guy.
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Speaker 1: I hope everyone's having a good week. Get ready for
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Speaker 1: that you know weekend, and to everyone, Happy April Gool's Day.
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Speaker 1: You know they've been you know, it's halfway to the
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Speaker 1: Halloween and they're already playing some of the spooky movies already.
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Speaker 1: I've seen a little bit of it. They've been showing
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Speaker 1: a lot of the very thirteens and others, so it's
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Speaker 1: been pretty cool. So I hope everyone's enjoying it. I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping that everyone enjoyed last week's episode or last episode. Today,
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Speaker 1: I believe we're gonna wanting to go to Wisconsin today.
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Speaker 1: There's a ghost that you know, this one's unique and
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you a little bit about it here. It's
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Speaker 1: called the Ridgway Ghost of Wisconsin. Yes, southwest Wisconsin. There's
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Speaker 1: a small town called Ridgway that is about six hundred
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Speaker 1: people that call home, well about six hundred living people
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Speaker 1: that is. But there is one resident in the Ridgeway.
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Speaker 1: Then that's the Ridgeway ghosts on occasionally referred to the
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Speaker 1: Ridgway Phantom. This one is a few ghosts throughout the
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Speaker 1: history of the world rumored to have killed the living,
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Speaker 1: and it haunts usually around Route one one between Dodgeville
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Speaker 1: and Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, as roughly twenty miles twenty miles
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Speaker 1: stretch of road lying primarily by farmland Ridgway. When it
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Speaker 1: was founded, it was pretty much it was an immigrant paradise,
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Speaker 1: and you had the Welsh coming in off the you know,
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Speaker 1: coming off the ocean. Then you got the Welsh coming in,
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Speaker 1: you got Norwegians, and you got German settlers that came
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Speaker 1: in the area about mid eighteen hunts and found to
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Speaker 1: the village of Ridgeway around the same time the ghost
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Speaker 1: sightings began. No records were kept of the encounters. The
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Speaker 1: stories were passed down from generation to generation. The entire
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Speaker 1: area of southwestern Wisconsin had a population explosion in these
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Speaker 1: with about ten thousand immigrants coming every year to work
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Speaker 1: in the lead mines. Many tried to make it their
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Speaker 1: new home. As you might imagine, it was a wild
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Speaker 1: place with lots of wilderness strangers saloons, gambling, drinking, fights, knifings,
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Speaker 1: and of course shootings happened daily, and the law was
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Speaker 1: so understaffed and so slow to respond, and if they
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Speaker 1: responded at all. On May first, nineteen thirteen, a fire
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Speaker 1: swept through the down town area of Ridgway, and high
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Speaker 1: winds quickly spread it. It burned through most of the
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Speaker 1: buildings downtown, including the post office, the bank, the lumberyard,
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Speaker 1: and even the chain depot, which was built in eighteen
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Speaker 1: eighty three. In twenty twenty two, it was amounted that
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Speaker 1: the cost was about three million in damage that the
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Speaker 1: fire did. The Ridgeway Fire Department was established sometime in
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirteen by the way. Accord to some, the ghost
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Speaker 1: moved out out of town after the fire. The sightings
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Speaker 1: of the Ridgeway ghost, according to some folklore, the ghost
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Speaker 1: can change its shape at wills of it significantly varied,
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Speaker 1: including the following a man with a whip, a dog,
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Speaker 1: a sheep, a pig, a horse, a ball of fire,
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Speaker 1: and of course headless horseman, a young woman and an
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Speaker 1: old woman, and more Supposedly, no matter the shape, the
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Speaker 1: ghost appears from nothing, tacks a person, often travelers, then
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Speaker 1: disappears Some reports claim that the ghostly activity increases every
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Speaker 1: forty years, starting in the eighteen fifties. One of the
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Speaker 1: first folk tales is that of doctor Coulter from the
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Speaker 1: New York Times, printed in nineteen oh two, with details
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Speaker 1: his story. Doctor Coulter saw the ghost three times in
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Speaker 1: his life. The third time killed him from fright. The
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Speaker 1: same article was the tale of John Lewis, who encountered
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Speaker 1: the giant, dark figure on a way home from helping
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Speaker 1: a friend butcher animals. John Lewis attacked the strange figure
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Speaker 1: with the knife and was found semi conscious the following day.
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Speaker 1: He said he had been picked up in the air
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Speaker 1: and tossed around, describe it as somewhat familiar to a tornado.
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Speaker 1: John Lewis died a few hours later after relying the incident.
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Speaker 1: The w Files, or pretty much the Wisconsin's affiliate of
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Speaker 1: the X Files, had an entire page about the Bridgeway
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Speaker 1: goes everything from ghostly hands playing poker to a giant
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Speaker 1: vanishing pigs that gave a farmer such a fright they
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Speaker 1: became sick then died. This farmer story shares similar to
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Speaker 1: John Lewis's story and has told the New York Times
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Speaker 1: article of the w files tells all readers that they
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Speaker 1: had from local storytellers that they are pretty entertainment, despite
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Speaker 1: for being short on variable details. Charles Z. Brown, a
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Speaker 1: director of Wisconsin Folklore Society, wrote a four page collection
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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty three stories about the Ridgeway Ghosts is
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Speaker 1: worth they read, and like most things in history, there
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Speaker 1: are similarities to the more modern tales. He told if
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Speaker 1: he noticed his name so close to Charlie Brown from
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Speaker 1: the Phoenix comic Congratulations on a Sharp Eye, I was
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Speaker 1: a bit suspicious and wondered if the entire thing was
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Speaker 1: made up by Given that Charles E. Brown of Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: Folklore Society wrote it quite a lot, it's safe to
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Speaker 1: say that the similarities names are likely to be just
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Speaker 1: a coincidence. The origin of the Ridgway ghost there's a
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Speaker 1: few stories that tom roll around. One is the teenaged
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Speaker 1: Brothers and mcphilps Saloon. In eighteen forty two brothers, ages
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Speaker 1: fourteen and fifteen were murdered. The motivation was unclear. One
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Speaker 1: of the brothers was tossed into a fireplace where he
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Speaker 1: was burned to death. The other brother froze to death
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Speaker 1: as he attempted to run away from town. Somehow from
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Speaker 1: these deaths arose the Ridgway Ghost. The other one the
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Speaker 1: bar brawl. Sometime around eighteen forty a bar brawl in
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Speaker 1: the village resulted the murder of the man. There isn't
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Speaker 1: a lot of details here, but there were plenty of
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Speaker 1: saloons wherever reasonable for. Some assume brawls broke out and
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Speaker 1: people were killed, as it turned out to be one
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Speaker 1: of them to be an aggressive ghost through it is
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Speaker 1: anyone's guests and of course the Newer Times article and
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Speaker 1: some are just put in there. It was just made up.
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Speaker 1: There was some stories from locals said the entire thing
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Speaker 1: was just might have been made up in eighteen fties
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Speaker 1: to scare the troublemakers out of town. Like the other origins,
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Speaker 1: I cannot verify this, and here's some articles I found.
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Speaker 1: This is from the village of Ridgeway. From eighteen forty
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Speaker 1: to eighteen forty five, ghost or spook was supposed to
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Speaker 1: have been seen along the military road. No record has
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Speaker 1: been kept in the stories. A few been handed down
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Speaker 1: from generation generation. The Ridgeway Ghost stories are interests today
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Speaker 1: and will be in the future as one of the
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Speaker 1: most unique and historic legends of the state of Wisconsin. Historically,
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Speaker 1: the ghost came from being from the following facts. Southwestern
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin roughly popularly between eighteen thirty two to eighteen forty five,
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Speaker 1: with the development of lead mines, my immigrant miners at
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Speaker 1: the Cornish, the Welsh, Irish, the German sim an rate
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Speaker 1: of ten thousand people per year to dig up the
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Speaker 1: fortunes and the ground to live in the new land
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Speaker 1: bos Teams were in the main source of transportation and
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Speaker 1: the trip to Galena, Illinois required five days. Along with
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Speaker 1: the wilderness, hotels, post offices, and groceries, saloons and stores
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Speaker 1: spring up every three to four miles where teams would
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Speaker 1: feed and water their travelers could rest. The area was
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Speaker 1: home to some undesirable characters, always alert for every easy money.
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Speaker 1: Mine's dotted the countryside and nights were spent in the
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Speaker 1: saloons with gamboling and drinking. Knife fights and shootings where
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Speaker 1: a daily occurrence. Local justice was slow and whipping was
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Speaker 1: the main punishment. The ghost made appearance at the Simpsons
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Speaker 1: Saloon in eighteen forty a pedlar stopped at the saloon
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Speaker 1: and was never seen again. This horse saddled and bridled
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Speaker 1: would tried to remain to gain entrance and cannot be
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Speaker 1: driven away. Many stories like this one where a famous ridgeway.
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Speaker 1: Some were pranks, some were imaginations, and somewhere some to
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Speaker 1: really say. They could not come to the ridgeway Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: Halloween and during the Labor Day celebration, and you could
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Speaker 1: see the ghosts. And there's one that I found. It's
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Speaker 1: an old article here. The stories that presented have a story,
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Speaker 1: have a specific date in order of any kind. All
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Speaker 1: accounts have took place during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
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Speaker 1: A strange figure that appeared on the stove of an
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Speaker 1: inn on the night near the town of Ridgeway. Two
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Speaker 1: Courtville citizens were walking one evening along the road, carrying
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Speaker 1: a plank or rail on their shoulders. As they were
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Speaker 1: passing a brush thicket, the brush parted apparition of a
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Speaker 1: white apparition in white leaped onto the plank and between them.
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Speaker 1: The men badly scared, they began to run. Then they
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Speaker 1: held onto the plank and the ghosts and in the
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Speaker 1: middle of it, lashing them painfully with the switch as
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Speaker 1: they ran. Finally, they fell down, exhausted, and when they
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Speaker 1: could bear to look the white thing had vanished. In
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Speaker 1: the town of Porkville, there was an instant of a
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Speaker 1: stranger that had joined a poker game and was playing
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Speaker 1: tricks on the other players throughout the course of the game.
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Speaker 1: The game had then vanished into the shadows of the room.
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Speaker 1: John Rightley, a teamster who was a haul in a
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Speaker 1: wagon load of pig lead, stopped at a saloon and
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Speaker 1: Ginny Town for a couple of drinks of bug juice.
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Speaker 1: That does sound good. He knew that he was near
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Speaker 1: the stomping ground a Ridgeway, a stomping rout of the
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Speaker 1: Ridgeway Ghost, and needed something stronger than water to transfuse
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Speaker 1: transfused his courage. When he returned to the wagon after dark,
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Speaker 1: he noticed that his oxen had been hitched to the rear.
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Speaker 1: As John Riley looked down the road, he saw the
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Speaker 1: ghost walking away with his lintam and with his lantern
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Speaker 1: and whip. John put up for the night and Jenmytown,
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Speaker 1: the Welshman and Cornishman had the most adventures with him.
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Speaker 1: One day, at dusk, a Welshman was struggling along the
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Speaker 1: road just west of Ridgeway. He was It was in
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Speaker 1: the eighteen forties, as he walked along the dusty road.
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Speaker 1: He knows that he has begun to follow by. He
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Speaker 1: was beginning to be followed by someone. Taking good look
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Speaker 1: in a hazy at the hazy person, the Welshman decided
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Speaker 1: it was the Ridgeway ghost. It quickened he had quickened
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Speaker 1: his pace. The oppression did likewise, always keeping up the
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Speaker 1: same distance behind him. The Welshman, determined to lose this
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Speaker 1: evil phantom, broke into a dog trot, and the ghost
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Speaker 1: did the same. The Welshman now became downright terrified and
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Speaker 1: began to run faster and faster. Frightened Welshmen travel mighty fast.
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Speaker 1: He ran so hard that he soon was out of breath.
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Speaker 1: Finding a log by the side of the road, he
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Speaker 1: sat down to rest on its far end. The ghost,
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Speaker 1: running close behind him, now came up and sat on
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Speaker 1: the other side of the laone. It was one of
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Speaker 1: the few times then the ghost uttered a word. He said,
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Speaker 1: that was some good running that you did, and that
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Speaker 1: you were doing. A Welsh farmer living near Ridgeway went
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Speaker 1: to his pomp when he needed to get two pills
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Speaker 1: of water. When he reached his house with full buckets,
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Speaker 1: he looked back at the pump and astonishment, he saw
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Speaker 1: the pump pandle was still going up and down, and
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Speaker 1: the water was still pouring out the spout. He had
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Speaker 1: heard stories about the ghosts, and now he knew the
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Speaker 1: rascal was haunting the pomp. He ran into the cabin
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Speaker 1: and blocked up the kitchen door. A settler who was
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Speaker 1: riding over the hills on horseback he saw something move
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Speaker 1: in the distant cabin he was passing. He dismounted from
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Speaker 1: his horse. He went to the cabin and looked in
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Speaker 1: there he saw the ghost who was visiting the cabin,
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Speaker 1: and saw an a furious business of his own. The
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Speaker 1: rider struck at the ghost with his whip, and the
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Speaker 1: ghost disappeared. The man noticed the next day that his
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Speaker 1: own fright, his own fright, his fingers had sunk into
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Speaker 1: the stock of the whip with which he had struck
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Speaker 1: the ghost. The impressions made by his fingers were plainly seen.
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Speaker 1: This man's name was Lewis. The ghost never never nervousness
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Speaker 1: and inflected others. Then was the then the railway game.
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Speaker 1: A young farmer went out to haunt small games at
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Speaker 1: by his home, hunt small game for his home. Later
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Speaker 1: he was returning in on the early misty evening, when
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Speaker 1: he suddenly saw the mysterious white object directly in his path.
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Speaker 1: The thing appeared to be very threatening, and the farmer
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Speaker 1: knew that he was about to have the encounter with
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Speaker 1: the famous riguate ghosts. Quickly he raised his shotgun and fired.
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Speaker 1: The right object remained just by where it was. He
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Speaker 1: managed to load the and fire again and no effect.
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Speaker 1: Then tossing the gun away and and game bag took it.
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Speaker 1: He took to his heels and ran, Yeah, that would
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Speaker 1: be uh. You can't shoot the ghosts. You might as
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Speaker 1: well just turn and run. This is the one article
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Speaker 1: here that's called some Wisconsin Ghosts. There were ghost stories
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Speaker 1: in great abundance, but ghost stories related to circumstantly was
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Speaker 1: the time, place, and events sworn to by reputable and
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Speaker 1: judicious persons were not particulously in common. Wisconsin was two
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Speaker 1: remarkable ghost stories, or rather stories of two ghosts, since
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Speaker 1: neither ghost has convinced itself with one menace of station.
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Speaker 1: A ghost which chooses a theological seminary for a scene
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Speaker 1: of appearances requires a standing and authority which craving step
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Speaker 1: skeptics must respect. Ghost which was hurled has hurled three
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Speaker 1: human beings onto its own chill realm possesses a gruesome,
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Speaker 1: terrible interest, aside from that cited by the opportunity reliable
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Speaker 1: character of the testimony offered to prove his existence. The
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Speaker 1: Nashatoa Theological ceremony at Nashatah, Wisconsin, a few miles from
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Speaker 1: that western Newport, Akno. What was the principal stronghold to
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Speaker 1: the High Church wing of the Episcopal Church in the West.
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Speaker 1: The founder of his institution was the River William Lloyd
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Speaker 1: beck stowed In, styled in the animals of his faith,
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Speaker 1: the pioneer of the church, a title well earned, and
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Speaker 1: addition to dozens of parishes in Wisconsin, he was the
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Speaker 1: founder of the system of schools at Fairbat, Minnesota, afterward
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Speaker 1: brought in to such a great prominence by Bishop Whipple,
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Speaker 1: a Seabury Theological Society, battle Back Military School in Saint
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Speaker 1: Mary's Hall. And in California, he founded Saint Augustine's College
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Speaker 1: and Saint Mary's of the Pacific. He died and was
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Speaker 1: He died and was buried at Benica, California, the scene
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Speaker 1: of his last labors. But after a few years after
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Speaker 1: but after a few years the Church of Wisconsin asked
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Speaker 1: that his body would be exhumed and brought back to
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Speaker 1: his first love. This was done, and the occasion of
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Speaker 1: the return and rebewal he was made memorably by a
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Speaker 1: series of phenomena which was possible away by explained by
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Speaker 1: natural causes each do not have each all right, but
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Speaker 1: in which have not yet been so explained. This may
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Speaker 1: due to the unscientific character of the investigators at the seminary,
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Speaker 1: including the nature of their calling. To believe that the
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Speaker 1: supernatural intervention was a scientist. Was a scientist would be
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Speaker 1: the only workings of a mandane force or the minister
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Speaker 1: minister preparation of heights and sounds. But it will take
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Speaker 1: a tale as a Nasha Nashata people tell it, and
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Speaker 1: the reader can draw his own conclusions. After the reveal
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Speaker 1: of the cassket, the body of doctor Beck way for
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Speaker 1: a time in the ground floor of one of the
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Speaker 1: buildings that and watchers sat with it. On the night
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Speaker 1: before the reburial. The watchers were in where the Reverend
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Speaker 1: Charles P. Doris Dorset of fifteen years, preacher of Saint
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Speaker 1: James in Chicago, now one of the Dinies of Texas,
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Speaker 1: and doctor Wilson now and Cargo along the hours near morning,
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Speaker 1: stepped out of the for a breath of fresh air,
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Speaker 1: but a moment came rushing back to him with the exclamation, Dorset, Dorset,
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Speaker 1: the woods are full of ghosts. Both clergymen went out
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Speaker 1: with every direction through the trees. They saw figures darting
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Speaker 1: hither and thither, and wild and fitful dance. The clergyman approached,
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Speaker 1: but the figures drawed back before them, forming to left
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Speaker 1: and right of them, and he was impossible to get
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Speaker 1: within close range. In the morning, when they the casket
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Speaker 1: was lifted, the door beneath was When the casket was lifted,
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Speaker 1: the door beneath was cast. The casket was lifted, the
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Speaker 1: door beneath was found, but to be to be blackened
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Speaker 1: by fire, and the hole was actually burned through the
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Speaker 1: space beneath. Now did this happen? No one ever tried
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Speaker 1: to offer an offering conjecture. This was not to be,
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Speaker 1: not the end. At the night of the facility of
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Speaker 1: the institution, sat in the most office of doctor Gardiner,
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Speaker 1: the President, discussing the strange events that perplexed them. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: their discussions and a brutality terminated by the starling and
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Speaker 1: tremendous racket just outside the door. A trembling and racketing
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Speaker 1: was that of outside the door. The clergyon racking was
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Speaker 1: that deafening doctor Gardner threw open the door. Not a
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Speaker 1: soul in the hall. He returned into his room hardly.
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Speaker 1: He hardly had set down when the noise began again.
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Speaker 1: And again it's un dashed to the to the hall,
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Speaker 1: filled with replay that uh reveal anyone, Nor did the
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Speaker 1: research or the search of the building rival that the
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Speaker 1: outside facility a living being was in it. A third
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Speaker 1: time noises began, and the time the doctor Gardner's spoken
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Speaker 1: to the hall, if you are, if you're a gentleman.
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Speaker 1: Still the noise stopped coming in another time, all of
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Speaker 1: them with all his might, not to have a caged
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Speaker 1: in by any magnification, but with the conjection with other
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Speaker 1: strange and unexplained happenings that it assumed to to importance.
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Speaker 1: It would not have been assumed after the After the
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Speaker 1: reburial of doctor Beck, a photograph was taken into the cemetery.
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Speaker 1: One of the students was a photographer, and the foreground
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Speaker 1: of the picture can be seen with two graves just
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Speaker 1: as they appear in the cemetery. But at the foot
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Speaker 1: of each grave stands something no visitor has ever seen,
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Speaker 1: and for the peace of his mind it was it
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Speaker 1: was to be hoped to never see. At the foot
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Speaker 1: of the one new grave, stands the Reverend doctor Doctor Cole,
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Speaker 1: former President of the Seminary, in full common or common
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Speaker 1: common uh can ten tenadals. At the foot of the
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Speaker 1: other graves stands the counterfeit presettlement of his accompaniment, a
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Speaker 1: woman whose life was benefics of the bit of facts
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Speaker 1: of the school when he was starling. When these startling
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Speaker 1: things happened at the time the photograph was disappeared, at
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Speaker 1: the time of photograph was developed, the seminary authorities decay
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Speaker 1: that possibility, some well tained conjection of the sunlight and
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Speaker 1: the foliage was cause of the of the imagination. But
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Speaker 1: they had no real ex existence. They they were, Were
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Speaker 1: they shadows or were they not? So they had to picture.
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Speaker 1: They had the picture thrown in a scene by steroid
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Speaker 1: stereo e pitticen. But the figures cannot come out more
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Speaker 1: than plainly, so plainly that there was no denying that
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Speaker 1: the only word well remembered figures of doctor Cole and
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Speaker 1: the military beneficiarists. The possibilities of the photograph were not
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Speaker 1: so well known then, was now a super possing was
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Speaker 1: one of the negative upon another, and the resulting of ghosts.
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Speaker 1: Photographs have been in a stock or made from any
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Speaker 1: impostors as an art not known to them. Still there
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Speaker 1: are these who suspected, they were that the photographer every
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Speaker 1: trick and changed him a change were worth it. He
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Speaker 1: denied the charge and offered this in sationable plea of innocence.
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Speaker 1: There is no such thing as a photograph of doctor
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Speaker 1: Cole in an existence, and nearby had over heard this one.
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Speaker 1: The over and well hawthen is cadd Wisconsin. Ghost was
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Speaker 1: chosen his haunt in a last urban region and among
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Speaker 1: the less civilicize people in the nasakas indeed was seen
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Speaker 1: of the walkers of the of his walkings was most
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Speaker 1: artistically chosen in the midst of the wild and savory
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Speaker 1: landscape that would have delayed door. Indeed, it is another
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Speaker 1: brittany another the typography and anthonology for what that is
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Speaker 1: weird strange land of Wisconsin led by religion with his
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Speaker 1: aracanes and principles, and of rock is gloomy, torturous Carnavas
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Speaker 1: and vales, and inhabited by Celtic Lore, Welsh and other
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Speaker 1: kundred of the cornwells. It's speaking of Gawiian Irish notable
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Speaker 1: ghosts sees all. The ghost himself is apparently a moment
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Speaker 1: remembrant of the days when it was of the population
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Speaker 1: of the region of Anglo Saxon, Virginian In Virginians and Kentuckians.
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Speaker 1: We are supposed to be the wrath of the man
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Speaker 1: who killed in and led the mining days before the
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Speaker 1: Civil War. At any rate, he appeared in the Ridgeway
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Speaker 1: township at the spot where the house was His murdered
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Speaker 1: man long stood a writing heat of blackened boards. The
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Speaker 1: black The first first person to see the ghosts see
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Speaker 1: the seeing a generation after the murder of the committed
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Speaker 1: was one doctor Coler of Dodge Dodgeville County, sitting in
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Speaker 1: Iowa County, next town beyond Ridgeway. One night was the
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Speaker 1: doctor was driving home homeward after his visit to patient
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Speaker 1: in the country. He was suddenly offered and seek a
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Speaker 1: darkened figure setting setting on the pole between the horses.
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Speaker 1: Reins slid from his nervous hands and the horse dashed away,
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Speaker 1: and at the full space, there's the specter writing the
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Speaker 1: pole nothing uh. This comment dis commented by the shake
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Speaker 1: he was getting getting up a hill and down another,
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Speaker 1: and Loah's Specter's specter was vanished. Doctor's story found a
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Speaker 1: little circumstance. It was known to love the flower of
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Speaker 1: the bowl, and he was, and his friends said that
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Speaker 1: he had taken a whole a drop of too much.
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Speaker 1: It was with it was been a dream, the specter
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Speaker 1: of delirium, treatments of Mayna and prope to do put yu,
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Speaker 1: mania and padu. But the doctor declared he was a
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Speaker 1: he was sober. He recalled that the fact that you're
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Speaker 1: previous where he really was a little, a little full.
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Speaker 1: While passing the self same haunted spot, he had often
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Speaker 1: became aware of the dark and silent stranger sitting able
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Speaker 1: to see him in carnage. At the carnage for a while,
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Speaker 1: the stranger rode without saying a word, and with all
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Speaker 1: all at once he was gone. At the time of
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Speaker 1: the doctor had asked no question of his drinking, which
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Speaker 1: and had considered it of a strange experience, and nothing more.
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Speaker 1: He was now convinced that the man beside him, and
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Speaker 1: the uring on the end of the pole were no
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Speaker 1: one and the same, and that he had gone. He
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Speaker 1: had done none of this in the world. Therefore the
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Speaker 1: people left in the daytime, but not in not after
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Speaker 1: long the repetition of the doctor received hidden and terrifying vindication,
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Speaker 1: as he himself after the war to vindicate and almost
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Speaker 1: was terrified. John Lewis, a father Ian Evan Evan Lewis
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Speaker 1: and chavelin champion wrestler of the United States, known to
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Speaker 1: sports everywhere, is a preposterous farmer living in the city
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Speaker 1: of Ridgeway, a man of sober life and undaunted courage,
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Speaker 1: and positioned to have on the tremendous fiscal strings as
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Speaker 1: his son was inherited. He was returning home one fault
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Speaker 1: Union after spending the day the night was not dark
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Speaker 1: and went as slve near the Hormit spot. He determined
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Speaker 1: to cut across the lots of which was home he could.
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Speaker 1: He was approaching the stone wall at the roadside to
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Speaker 1: climate when his attention was arrested by the side of
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Speaker 1: the figure as seemed to have gathered itself together out
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Speaker 1: of out of the just no sorry about that, folks,
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Speaker 1: that just now there ten for tem for less, and
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Speaker 1: stood confronting him in a menacing uh. He knew that
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Speaker 1: he had no one, no one, He had no enemy,
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Speaker 1: and the highwaymen were unknown in that retired were unknown
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Speaker 1: in that retired quarter of the of the state. He
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Speaker 1: just said, that's that someone must have tried to fifteen
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Speaker 1: of them, and so held the finger, and no reasons
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Speaker 1: began began to give the advice upon it. The figure
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Speaker 1: did not bulge, but stood the towering shape of the
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Speaker 1: black man, out of the businessman shape of the blackness
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Speaker 1: of the giant, ganic and grizzly thing, some remarkable bowl
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Speaker 1: and eyeing at the county of the following following may
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Speaker 1: Lewis decide to avoid the conflict and drawing and drying
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Speaker 1: the butcher's knife. By then he started to pass by
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Speaker 1: when he figured resting was a former lake that forbidding gesture,
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Speaker 1: stepping at oarthway to the pitch, observing a bestI impulse
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Speaker 1: that were moored, ghastly and stool chilling fear that any
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Speaker 1: other singer Lewis might have seen seen it quite next
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Speaker 1: report of the singer was found Lewis lying near the
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Speaker 1: side of the wall in a semi conscious condition. What
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Speaker 1: that happened? After he had struck his knife, and he
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Speaker 1: said the best value impressions, He said, you've been hurled
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Speaker 1: in the air as by a vortex of a cyclone,
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Speaker 1: pounded a crush insatian ability. He died a few hours later,
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Speaker 1: after he carried some vertine with his dying breath that
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Speaker 1: he had come to see his end by supernatural urgency.
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Speaker 1: And thus did the death of John Lewis make the
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Speaker 1: first vindication of the rep retribution of doctor Culture and
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Speaker 1: the suffering caused. But a second and third time was
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Speaker 1: the doctor to be vindicated a dreamster. I am sorry, dressmaker,
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Speaker 1: I encountered the ghost he had pursued by someone dressed
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Speaker 1: my concusion that ghost is prescribed by some After he died,
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Speaker 1: the shocks accused by the intense frightened at the sense
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Speaker 1: of doctor Culture himself needed almost for the third time
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Speaker 1: see himself seeking in the ghost. A third time finally
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Speaker 1: had Trina trinofantly vindicated his word through his cost of
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Speaker 1: zone for the drain of the salt of the night
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Speaker 1: had been the third church a third third of the
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Speaker 1: victims that the impossible specter to have the old military
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Speaker 1: road since it since the times the ghost have seen
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Speaker 1: the number of three seen by the importance of the
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Speaker 1: way he learned situations and the astopical see the the
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Speaker 1: insights and the company which he had. They had thirsty
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Speaker 1: the company whoever, who never that saw they saw it,
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Speaker 1: they offer They offered no attempt at the explor explanation.
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Speaker 1: They saw it. They believe in the same victual causes.
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Speaker 1: They could explain that apparition so far as their eyes
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Speaker 1: could have gave them information. They saw a ghost. Well,
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Speaker 1: these ghosts what explanation can offer? The writer confesses he
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Speaker 1: is unconvinced, yet has personal acquaintances with the persons who
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Speaker 1: claimed I have seen them with the cloudy men on
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Speaker 1: one hand, the university bred authentics. On the other, the
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Speaker 1: calling of our former ought to survey them from ly
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Speaker 1: in even told one belief of persotone to believe the
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Speaker 1: several of the laws of the nature nature as explained
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Speaker 1: by significant The latter had no predemption to the fact
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Speaker 1: they were to judgment. So you see there are some
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Speaker 1: evidence possessed that can render you your own reverdict. I
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Speaker 1: think that was pretty good. Sorry about messing up on
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