More Orbs

While I'm on the topic of orbs this evening, here are a few more pictures I've gotten. First, you will see the field out in front of Mount Locust Inn also located along the Natchez Trace. I took that picture the same night I got the one at Windsor Ruins I put up on my post earlier this evening. I zoomed in on one of the orbs that appears to be moving somewhere.


Then, here are some pictures from the haunted plantation I told you about that Sarah, Joel, Eliza and I visited in South Carolina. The house is called Woodburn, and this photograph here is of a cabin out behind the main house. I took this picture because I was interested in the architectural makeup of the structure, but when I zoomed in on one of the windows, there was a little orb in there!


Maybe I can start visiting some haunted places in Illinois. Here is a picture taken last Halloween at one of the Charleston city cemeteries when we were out looking for Tilford Dudley's grave. You can see some pretty good orbs in there. One of the buildings on the EIU campus, Pemberton Hall, is supposedly quite haunted. It was the first women's dormatory at any school in the state of Illinois. As the legend goes, in 1917 a girl who was living at "Pem," as it is called, went up to the fourth floor one night when she couldn't sleep. She was going to play the piano to try to relax. Supposedly a janitor who worked in the building snuck in there that night and attacked the girl. He thought she was dead, so he took off, but she wasn't dead. She crawled along the hallway, leaving a trail of blood and scratching at people's doors to try to wake someone. She finally reached the door of Mary Hawkins, the counselor staying in the dormatory. Mary opened the door to find the girl dead before her. This upset Mary so much that she was later sent to a mental institution where she committed suicide. So, supposedly the ghosts of both the girl who was killed and Mary haunt Pem today. Pem is still a women's dorm building today, but the fourth floor is closed-off. People have reported hearing a dragging noise upstairs along the fourth floor hall, as well as scratching noises on their doors at night. Also, some people have said that bloody footprints will appear on the floor and then disappear. Many residents think that the ghost of Mary Hawkins goes around checking on everybody at night. She locks and unlocks doors, turns radios on and off, and rearranges furniture. Creepy to the max! Maybe the ghost hunters need to come check out Pem hall! Also, people claim that Abe Lincoln's house in Springfield is haunted by a woman--either Mary Todd or a lady who later lived in the house named Mrs. Lucian A. Tilton. I wonder if I can ever arrange to be at the house in the evening sometime. I have also learned that the Dana-Thomas House, the cool place we visited for class a couple of weeks ago, is supposedly haunted. Mrs. Dana held seances there after her loved ones died, and many people think that she is still in the house today. There is a funny quote on a website about haunted Illinois places (http://www.illinoishauntings.com). It says: "If the reports are to be believed, Abraham Lincoln must be the most well traveled ghost in history. The martyred president is said to haunt the White House, his home in Springfield, the old capital in Vandalia, Illinois, Ford's Theatre and just about anywhere else he ever visited!" A lot of people think that Abe's tomb at the Oak Ridge Cemetery is haunted--especially since somebody tried to steal his body in 1875. Also, New Salem State Park--located in Petersburg, near Athens where Greg lives--is supposedly haunted (Abe used to live there). Unfortunately I didn't know this before we went to Vandalia the other day, but Abe Lincoln supposedly also haunts the old state capitol building there. Sometime I want to go to Alton, Illinois, where Elijah Lovejoy--the abolitionist I'm writing a paper about for Dr. Barnhart's class--was killed back in 1837. Supposedly his ghost has been seen around town, as well as ghosts of Confederate soldiers who were imprisoned at the Alton Penitentiary during the Civil War. So many possible fun ghost adventures are to be had in Illinois! Okay, well, I'm going to go to bed now. As you can see, I needed a little diversion from homework this evening :-)