Thanks for all the input on the "haints" origin. Gives me a little more insight into dad's terminalogy. Dad used to tell the story about an old bridge that he had to cross to get home and it was said that a headless woman would sometimes sit on the bridge and haint it. He said one night that he to walk home alone right as it was getting dark and when he got to bridge the haint was sitting there. He said he figured it was someone trying to scare him because he didn't believe in such and continued to walk up on the bridge, as he got closer to the haint..it was just gone-disappeared. Scared him so bad he ran the whole 2 miles home and collasped on the front porch. Never did walk on that bridge by himself again and NEVER at night. Believe it or not. Now, my question will always be...did he think he really saw a haint or was that just a haint story to scare the little kids? Thanks for helping me with my haints! Kathy _________________________________________________________________ Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam
I wonder if your Dad was living in Jackson County, Florida, at some time. Some of the story sounds like the stories they used to tell about the old Bellamy Bridge there. A good account of the story behind the ghost of Bellamy Bridge can be read at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~fljackso/EJCB.html Jeff Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy and Farrell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:47 PM Subject: [ALHENRY] Haints > Thanks for all the input on the "haints" origin. Gives me a little more > insight into dad's terminalogy. Dad used to tell the story about an old > bridge that he had to cross to get home and it was said that a headless > woman would sometimes sit on the bridge and haint it. He said one night that > he to walk home alone right as it was getting dark and when he got to bridge > the haint was sitting there. He said he figured it was someone trying to > scare him because he didn't believe in such and continued to walk up on the > bridge, as he got closer to the haint..it was just gone-disappeared. Scared > him so bad he ran the whole 2 miles home and collasped on the front porch. > Never did walk on that bridge by himself again and NEVER at night. Believe > it or not. Now, my question will always be...did he think he really saw a > haint or was that just a haint story to scare the little kids? > > Thanks for helping me with my haints! > Kathy > > _________________________________________________________________ > Try MSN Messenger 6.0 with integrated webcam functionality! > http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_webcam >