Do the ghost stories have to be Kentucky ones? I am in savannah, GA and watching Floyd, too. This is a bad looking one and we are overdue since we have not had a hurricane since '79 when David struck. The mayor of Savannah is named Floyd so we are hoping this is not an omen ! <G> Sandy barbara wrote: > Ramona, > > In answer to your early question, No, I do not know where the ghost story > of the Sailor and his peg leg started. > > Isnt it strange that back in the late 1800's, grown men would sit around > the fire at night and tell ghost stories. > > > and in the late 1900's, grown women would sit around the computers at > night and tell ghost stories. > > Barbara, who is watching Hurricane Floyd very close, as it is predicted > it may hit here. > I am just north of West Palm Beach, in Stuart Florida.