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Many years ago my family farmed an old farmstead, and we lived in the house between Mt. Pulaski and Elkhart. My dad was a non believer who preferred to explain everything away to a logical explanation. The story on the farm was about a hot tempered man that owned the farm. He was from a very wealthy Kentuckian family. Old money, they raised purebred horses and sold them to race. He raised horses but also farmed. This was back in the 1800s. He got into a fight
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with a man and killed him because he was trespassing on his land. The family kept him from getting hanged and loosing the farm. He was an alcoholic and
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when we moved in there were brown jugs everywhere. The basement had a cellar and part of it had later on been made into a basement. In one part was a door where in the 1940s and 1950s (and maybe even in the 1960s) coal was delivered to heat the house. It was a spooky dark place, and every time I would go down there to do laundry I would get the feeling someone was watching me.
When you went up the stairs there was a door to go outside, turn left,
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