6h try for this one too! Sandi Good morning on the last week of October with a definite chill in the air. Charles has posted the answer to last week's puzzler and I thank all of you who tried your hand at solving it. There is a long and detailed description of the lands set aside for the soldiers & officers of the Revolutionary War which can be found. After you see the answer you will remember that I mention this boundary line every week in my Hart Co posts altho at the time of these posts, the lands had been opened up for anyone to settle. The new puzzler has been posted also; I've discussed this quite a few times on the list so hopefully you can get the answer and send me your guesses. Click on the URL in my signature line called gensoup and it will take you to the page. Please remember to enter your email address! No one sees it but; it automatically sends me your guess and I'll respond. If you don't enter your email address, I can't reply! Here is the ghost story for the day: The Old Woman With No Head This story was written from an interview with Mr. Willie Bunch that was conducted in March of 1992. The interviewers were Mark Anderson and Willie's daughter, Juanita Anderson. It was a summer day around 1926 in the small farming community of Kino, Kentucky. Kino was a little place just outside of Glasgow, the county seat of Barren County. Willie Bunch was walking home after spending the night with his friend, Fred Duggard, and carrying a rooster that he had bought from his grandfather for a quarter. It was hot and wet outside, and getting near lunchtime. Just off the old, dirt road, a tree had blown down and he sat down to roll himself a cigarette. As he was getting his tobacco out, he looked up and about twelve feet away stood a woman with no head. "I looked at the bottom of her feet, to the top of her head--but I couldn't see," he said. She was dressed all in white. The gown, he later assumed to be a wedding gown, trailed far behind the old woman. He watched her for a few minutes, probably not quite believing his own eyes, as the old woman picked up firewood. While trying to get away from the old woman, he grabbed his rooster by the neck instead of its feet and choked the poor animal. "Why, its neck was two feet long," he said. He threw the bird down when he saw what he had done and went home, noticeably shaken from the event. Another incident occurred to the family on their way back from church. They were all in a horse drawn wagon, and on the little dirt road that he had seen the old woman on before. They were nearing the Old Scott Place, as he called it, when his grandfather heard a horse galloping and snorting from behind. He turned around, but didn't see a horse. All he saw was the old woman with no head crawling into the back of their wagon with them. She sat in the back of the wagon until they got to the Scott's farm. There she got off, walked towards the farm and disappeared. Willie's wife, Louvenia, also saw her that time. He also said that the woman with no head was responsible for planting a field full of flowers. "She planted the whole field full of 'em. I guess it had an acre or more. They're the prettiest flowers ever I saw, I'm honest," he said. In all, Willie saw the old woman with no head four or five times, but he wasn't the only one to see her. According to his grandfather, the old woman suddenly appeared on the back of his horse, and once again, got off near the Scott farm. Willie's eldest son, Lee, also saw the old woman. He saw her at his grandmother's house walking down the stairs. He said he counted every step she took as she came down out of the house. He said that this time she was dressed in a long, black dress and was carrying an umbrella, but she still didn't have a head. The old woman was almost always seen in the same area, gathering firewood or going to the Scott farm. Every time Willie saw her it was still daylight and usually wet outside, like it had just rained the night before. He heard that someone had cut off a preacher's head in the area. He didn't know whether or not the preacher had anything to do with the old woman or if it was just a coincidence. But it was the only explanation he could give as to why there was an old woman with no head lurking in the woods of Barren County, Kentucky. See you tomorrow! Sandi