“I don’t like little children ghosts,” Miss Bronwen said with a shudder.“You saw the Shining didn’t you?” I asked her, taking my eyes from the road.“I don’t want to talk about it,” she replied, looking uneasy in the passenger seat.“Wanna hear a true ghost story?” I asked her.“How true?” she replied.“Honest to goodness true,” I […]
Tales From Head of the Harbor and St. James I: New Thoughts on Mary Hatchet and Mary’s Grave
Top: Mary’s Playhouse at Head of the Harbor. Mary lived with her father in a large rambling house on Stony Brook harbor, in what is today known as Head of the Harbor, New York. One can assume that Mary’s father was anticipating a large family, or perhaps more likely, he inherited the house. But either […]
Tales of Old Stony Brook I: The Haunting of the Stony Brook Grist Mill
When a building becomes a part of a person’s life, there’s a better chance that it will become haunted. This only stands to reason. The more people who are touched by a building, the better the chance. Is this not so? One of the centers of colonial life and the years that followed was the […]
