In December 1760, the landlord of the Ragged Cot, Bill Clavers, decided to rob the midnight stagecoach travelling to London. Before setting out, he gave himself Dutch courage and resistance to the cold with liberal helpings of rum. As he staggered from his bedroom with loaded pistols, his wife, with their young child in her […]
Tales from St. James and Head of the Harbor II: Hard Candy and Ghosts at St. James General Store
“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 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 […]
