Coffin Hollow and Other Ghost Tales by Ruth Ann Musick

Author:Ruth Ann Musick
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1977-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

48: The Legend of the Haunted House

On a hill in Harrison County stands an old abandoned house. It is a pretty, white house, with a large yard, and in the summer it is surrounded by many kinds of flowers. This house has been empty for a little over a year. It is not a spooky-looking place that everyone would be afraid of, but for some reason none of the families who have bought it have lived there more than a month, in spite of its beautiful location. Some people believe the house is haunted.

This legend was probably strengthened one rainy night when Lee Harris, a traveling salesman, was passing through that section. He had a flat tire just down the road from the house. Seeing a light in the window, he decided to ask the people who lived there if he could use their telephone to call a repair station.

A very beautiful woman opened the door. Her hair was golden blonde and waved down her back; her eyes were as blue as the sky on a bright spring day; indeed, the man was enchanted by her many charms. She was joined at the door by three small children, bright-eyed and much like their mother. The salesman called a repair shop and found that a bridge had been washed away, and no one could come to fix the tire until the next morning.

When Lee explained where he was, the man did not believe that a woman and three children were in the house; he told the salesman to get away from the place as soon as possible — to sleep in his car, if he had to. Lee could not understand this because the woman treated him so nicely. She offered him a cup of coffee and told him he could spend the night in her house — and he accepted her hospitality.

He had a very comfortable night until about 12:30, when he heard the children screaming. At first he thought they were having youthful nightmares and would soon go back to sleep. But the screaming persisted, and he decided the woman could use some help in getting the youngsters quieted.

When he got downstairs, he was amazed at what he saw. It was the same beautiful woman he had encountered just a few hours before, but she looked entirely different — thin, rough, and almost ugly. Her once beautiful bright eyes were darkened and glassy with a look of torture. The children, now wearing ragged clothing, were not even clean, and they were crying from hunger.

Lee spoke to the woman and asked her why she didn’t feed the youngsters, but she only kept on screaming at them and begging them not to cry, as though she hadn’t heard him speak to her at all. He walked over and touched her arm, trying to keep her from the children. When he touched her flesh, he found it was cold, as if in death. Could it be that all of them were dead?

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