Ghostly Hauntings of Interstate 65 by Joanna Foreman

Author:Joanna Foreman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ghost stories from along the highway.
Publisher: Per Bastet Publications LLC
Published: 2014-09-16T00:00:00+00:00

Where There's Smoke

Near the end of the twentieth century, a small, wood-framed house in North Central Kentucky burned to the ground. To this day, it continues to smolder. Most people believe that the ghost of the man who died in the fire was cursed to smoke to all eternity. Several folks have described this phenomenon, each having their own version with varying details. I have researched, collected facts, and now attempt to reconstruct the story as closely as possible to the way it really happened.

Sandy Robinson had worked nights in the Maintenance Department at the University of Louisville for five years. He possessed a good work ethic and paid his bills in a timely manner. He didn't earn much money, and due to the remaining expenses from his parents' illnesses and deaths, there was little left over at the end of the week for socializing. He would have liked to go on a real date, or stop off for a beer with the guys once in a while. He didn't worry about his finances; he was young, and the University had a decent retirement plan. Sandy was frugal enough to save for a rainy day. He stashed five dollars cash each week in a coffee can on the bottom shelf of his old Frigidaire. Cold cash, he called it.

A rainy day came much sooner than he had expected, six months after he married his childhood sweetheart, Tonie Maynard. In third grade at Minors Lane Elementary School, he had thought her to be the prettiest little brown-eyed girl he had ever seen, which is precisely when it struck him he'd like to spend eternity with her. But Tonie's parents divorced that year, and she moved to Tennessee with her mother. Sandy never forgot about Tonie, but didn't expect to see her again. To his amazement, when she returned to Louisville to attend college, she looked him up.

He was easily found, still living in his childhood home. By then, the faded yellow, two-bedroom house needed an extensive amount of repair. It had been Sandy's intention to fix it up, but most of his income had gone toward his parents' medical needs. They had died within thirty days of one another the previous year, and Sandy continued to make payments on the final hospital expenses.

Tonie had purposefully chosen to attend the Community College in Louisville; she hoped to find that cute little Sandy Robinson boy who had lived down the road, way back in her carefree days of childhood. But the street didn't look anything like she remembered; in fact, there was no real neighborhood left at all, so when she saw Robinson on the mailbox, she lifted her face heavenward and whispered thank you. She pushed the rickety gate open and all but skipped up the sidewalk. Praying Sandy hadn't gone and gotten himself hitched, Tonie knocked on the old front door.

They sat at the kitchen table, each with a tall, cold glass of sweetened tea, and Sandy explained how the area had changed so drastically.

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