Happy Hallowe'en, though this may not arrive at your door on this auspicious occasion - Oct. 31, 2001. The "ghosts" of the Oxford Tavern on 1st St, or Main St. in Snohomish are in the news again. And my friend, Catherine McMurchy, librarian for many years - 1923 - 1939 at Snohomish Library is in the news again as a ghostly apparition that "some" see or have "experienced" according to some of the news articles that have been written on the subject. Funny though, we "kids" who knew Catherine McMurchy from the mid 1920s 'til she retired haven't heard of her ghostly activities until "newcomer" began writing and telling stories about it. Same thing with the Oxford Tavern which was familiar to us, but it was only detected among the "latecomers" that "Madame Kate" & her crew began "occupying" the place. Is it possible that we "old timers" that used to be kids don't have the "awareness" to detect this phenomena? Anyway, read on two articles that apply to Snohomish "g h o s t s" "dicovered" in more recent times by people who have "awareness" and who are young enough to "recall" such phenomena: Ref The HERALD, Everett WA Date: WedOct 31, 2001 Local Section Page(s) B1, B2 http://heraldnet.com/search/ Article: Library's whost may be dispirited By Leslie Moriarty, Herald Writer Box gives www.heraldnet.com/ghostcam a 24hr camera that hopes to capture Catherine McMurchy's apparition on her rounds among the stacks even tho' it has been over 64 yrs since she did so living. Read about someone who knew her, her sister Anna and the McMurchy family tells of her memories. Since the McMurchy sisters were also friends of mine, and came to see me when I was ill over a long seige with T.B., I need to contact this person and compare notes with her on the McMurchys. Also, I need to contact Mike Malone who has had a keen interest in the McMurchy phenomena. Also, I need to discuss with him the mix up in pictures in the Herald that were meant to be pix of Catherine McMurchy, when they were actually pix of her sister, Anna. These discrepencies need to be clarified along with a few other mixed identities that appeared in articles related to the Snohomish Library and the articles related to the "ghostly' phenomena that is supposed to be residing there. * * * 30 * * * Then there is the story about the man who has a ghost detector, or buster, called a "tri-field natural electric-magnetic field meter" a mouthful of phenomena for anyone to swallow. Tri=3; 3 field, natural electric-magnetic field. Well lodestone has natural magnetic qualities and therefore fields of magnetism as all magnets, natural or man-made have. How the "meter" indicates this and what those 3 fields are unless they are of 3 directions - I'm baffled, but in these times, why shouldn't we be. Just watching the media will do that for you ! So, "make no mistake!" + "here we go again" : Ref The HERALD, Everett WA Date: Wed Oct 31, 2001, Local Section Page(s) B1, B2 http://heraldnet.com/search/ Article: Who you gonna call? This ghost buster takes chasing apparitions seriously, bu7t he's not in it for the money. By Kate Reardon, Herald Writer A box included in the article give information under the title "Credentials of a ghost buster" including websites for American Ghost Society www.prairieghosts.com/ags.html Ghost Research Society www.ghostresearch.org/ Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims if the Paranormal http://www.csicop.org for skeptics, and debunking such thinking and phenomena. COMMENT: This article gives separate advice for what to do "If you see a ghost". * * * 30 * * * Now am I a believer in ghosts? Not so far - I just put that all up on the "shelf" for further evidence. There is a Clark (my Line) built house back in Southington, CT that is supposed to be haunted or occupied by several ghosts, of which one is a young girl who moves things in that 1720/30 house on Meriden Ave, formerly Clark Road SE of town. People who know the place are fearful of it; or they are highly interested in it. I have seen that house but I haven't seen it at nite, and I guess ghosts don't appear very well in the daytime. * * * 30 * * * Come to think of it the media hype is rather spooky at times - as the questions fly, and the answers are likewise mysterious. Genealogically speaking, we are sometimes "in the dark" but there is one thing we know: "They Want to be Found !" Good Hunting ! Carroll in Snohomish - where the Spirits were kept - Prohibition - in the Sand and Gravel Pit, and distributed among the tombstones of Snohomish Cemetery ! And that is the Truth ! &