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Collecting Ghost Stories by
Bob Bowman | |
For
years, the good people of East Texas
have shared with us their stories of ghosts,
haunted houses, unexplained events and other morsel of the macabre. One lady
even told us a story about a alien buried in a cemetery in Wise County--an event
backed up by a story in a respected Texas newspaper.
Now, it’s time to
put the ghosts into a new book.
And if you have a favorite story, here’s
your chance to see it in print, whether you beleive it or not.
You
can call us at 936-634-7444, send us an e-mail at bobb@consolidated.net,
or write us at 515 South First Street, Lufkin, Texas 75901. Our website is bob-bowman.com
Here
are some of the ghosts of East Texas.
In 1843,
Milt Andrews built a splendid plantation mansion near Karnack. Sometime later,
Andrews’ nineteen-year-old daughter, Eunice, also known as Oonie, sat alone in
her upstairs bedroom when a bolt of lightning from a storm struck a chimney and
raced down to a fireplace and struck Oonie. She was burned to death.
Over
the years, stories rose that Oonie’s ghost never left her bedroom. Eerie noises,
odd happenings, and ghostly apparitions soon became common. When the Andrews family
sold the mansion to T.J. Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson’s father, in 1902, the ghost
went along with the sale.
Lady Bird said she never saw the ghost, but admitted
feeling a sense of apprehension and unease in the house as a child.
At Patriot’s Hill, which stands beside the Sabine
River near Hemphill, soldiers
in the Civil War guarded the hill to keep Union soldiers from entering Texas.
The men stayed at their posts until the war’s end, but many died from starvation
and sickness.
Some people in Sabine County say the soldiers’ voices can
still be heard on the hill and others claim they have seen men in Civil War uniforms
silently standing guard in the woods.
Now that we’ve grabbed your attention,
we’re waiting on your story.
Bob
Bowman's East Texas
December 6, 2009 Column
A weekly column syndicated in 109 East Texas newspapers
Copyright
Bob Bowman
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