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10-16-2012, 10:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2012 10:14 PM by BettyO.)
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The Haunted Boarding House
Since Halloween is in the air - I thought that it may be interesting to read about the "haunting" of 541 H Street....
Macon Weekly Telegraph, Macon, GA, December 12241866 "The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley |
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10-17-2012, 07:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2012 08:10 AM by LincolnMan.)
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
Interesting to note (if I'm reading it correctly) that the "objective" article affirms that the house is haunted: "Mrs. Surratt's house is haunted. There can be no reasonable doubt upon the subject." Can you imagine a news report today making such a claim?
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10-17-2012, 08:00 AM
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
I've had chinese food that haunted me
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in? |
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10-17-2012, 08:04 AM
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
(10-17-2012 07:56 AM)LincolnMan Wrote: Interesting to note (if I'm reading it correctly) that the "objective" article affirms that the house is haunted: "Mrs. Surratt's house id haunted. There can be no reasonable doubt upon the subject." Can you imagine a news report today making such a claim? Sure, Bill -- on some sort of Ghost Busters Reality TV Show ! 
"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley |
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10-17-2012, 08:12 AM
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
Gene: was it chinese food from what used to be the Surratt boardinghouse?
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10-17-2012, 05:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2012 05:18 PM by RJNorton.)
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
Also, the Surratt Courier once had an article in which it was mentioned that in the late 1920's the Surratt boardinghouse was raided and padlocked by federal authorities for housing large stocks of paraphernalia being used to violate the nation's prohibition laws. And, during the 1970's, the house was raided on account of numbers racketeering.
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10-17-2012, 05:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-17-2012 05:46 PM by J. Beckert.)
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
That reminds me of a church members prophecy, after Ford turned the Baptist Church into a theater, that no good would come of such evil use. It then, a few years later, suffered the fire, the assassination a few years after that and then the floor collapse.
"There are few subjects that ignite more casual, uninformed bigotry and condescension from elites in this nation more than Dixie - Jonah Goldberg" |
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10-17-2012, 07:24 PM
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RE: The Haunted Boarding House
About forty years ago, when the boardinghouse was a Chinese grocery store (and looked like it should be raided by the health department), a group of us - including Betty and I - used to dare each other to open the door to the right of the entrance - store's entrance was to the left on the ground floor where it still is today - and run upstairs to see what the second and third floors were being used as. For some reason, we had visions of evil doings and opium dens up there!
Betty, help - was it known as Suey Sang Lung's then? They did sell good macaroon cookies. However, ask any question about Mrs. Surratt or the Lincoln assassination, and they clammed up. |
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