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My grandparents lived outside of Pinckneyville. My cousins Ruthanne (age 11) and Frankie (age unknown at the time)) were brother and sister who spent most of their childhood at our grandparents house. One night in 1969 they were coming home from town and my cousin Ruthanne was struck by a drunk driver-she was thrown from her bicycle and died instantly.
My family was in California when we received the sad news of her death. In 1971 my dad retired from
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the navy and he got a job in the Chicago area. This was great because his family in southern Illinois were much closer and as a result we spent a lot
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of weekends visiting them.
We spent the night at his parents house and here is where the ghost story begins. During one of those visits in the middle of the night my mom heard a child calling for their ''mommy''. Thinking it was one of her 5 children she got up to see if we were okay.
We were all sound asleep so she went back to bed. The next time we visited she woke up with the feeling that something was not right. She looked out into the
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