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Girl says bones belong to ghost
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| Tuesday, 5 Oct 04
| MELANIE BENNETT
Posted on 10/05/2004 7:48:14 PM PDT by CurlyBill
Girl says bones belong to ghost
Investigators unsure how possible human remains got inside insulation
BY MELANIE BENNETT
Staff Writer
A Russell County fifth-grader is convinced bones found in her home last weekend belong to a mysterious friend who told her about being chopped up years ago.
Investigators have few clues about how and when the bones got inside insulation under the living room floor of the mobile home on Jowers Road, near East Alabama Motor Speedway.
The 10-year-old, Stephanie Ogden, and her family have lived in the home since 1998. Her great-grandparents, John and Marion Stewart, own the home.
The bones were found Saturday as the Ogdens, who are renovating the home, pulled up boards in the living room floor. Russell County Sheriff's Lt. Heath Taylor said an initial analysis shows the bones are from the pelvis and leg of a child at least 10 years old, and the child has been dead at least 10 years.
Another bone was found Sunday, Marion Stewart said. The area where the bones were found had duct tape over the insulation, Stewart said.
"There's an odor there that doesn't belong," Stewart said.
The bones probably don't have enough marrow to do DNA tests, Taylor said. Because the trailer has been moved several times between Georgia and Alabama, investigators now are faced with the daunting task of trying to track down missing children from a wide area in two states.
Taylor said gnaw marks on the bones may indicate a rodent placed them inside the insulation. Dirt and plant material on the bones indicate they were outside at one time, Taylor said.
Stephanie said a black girl in a white dress started visiting her room when she was about 5 years old. The girl was friendly, but she told Stephanie a horrible story.
"She told me that somebody put her in the floor," Stephanie said. "She said he had a mask on, and that he chopped her up. She didn't know who the person was, because he had a mask on."
Stephanie, a fifth-grader at Dixie Elementary School, now thinks that the bones that were found in her home belong to her playmate.
"It's possible because that girl was a ghost," Stephanie said Monday. "Nobody knows about them."
Marion Stewart said Stephanie used to tell her family about the visitor, but the adults always dismissed the stories as being an imaginative child's fabrication based partly on horror movies. Stewart said Stephanie used to always ask for two glasses of soda when she would play outside -- one glass for her and one for her friend.
Stewart said the weekend's grisly discoveries have convinced her that her great-granddaughter's playmate is actually a tormented soul seeking peace.
"I'm not a psychic, and I don't believe in some of that stuff," Stewart said. "But I believe this is a soul who has not been put to rest."
Taylor said detectives can't base their work on ghost stories.
"Do you have any idea how hard it is to investigate a ghost?" he said Monday.
Investigators are looking through databases of missing children to find any links to the trailer's location, but Taylor doesn't hold out much hope of solving the case.
"It's just one of those cases where there's just not a lot to go on," he said.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: callingartbell; ghost; ghosts; halloween; haunt; haunted; haunting; murder; notmyfault
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To: CurlyBill
101
posted on
10/11/2004 10:15:28 AM PDT
by
Calusa
(One Nation Gone Under.)
To: mtbopfuyn
Georgia, Alabama, trailers... Seemed like a couple possibly significant similarities there. If you draw a line from Douglas County to Mobile, that's the territory. Should be an interesting and gruesome investigation.
To: Bacon Man
The booth - at which Kiva's younger one Lauren is working this year, I might add, so we have an in - has not only fried Twinkies, but also fried Snickers bars. You cannot believe it.
I gotta tell you the Twinkie Heist story.
103
posted on
10/11/2004 10:48:16 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Xenalyte
104
posted on
10/11/2004 12:16:39 PM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Great! Well when Marrakech gets overrun by mutant lizard people, don't come crying to me.)
To: Bacon Man
Well, I'd been eyeing the giant Twinkie - it's easily as tall as me - for the whole first weekend. I wanted it. When I found out it was a Styro-pastry, I knew I had to have it.
Our first heist happened about 10 yesterday morning. We sent Angela to distract the chick who was barking for the Twinkies booth. Then Eric (one of our barkers) and I sidled up, grabbed the Twinkie, and ran back across the way, yelling, "We got it! Woohoo! Triumph is ours!"
Someone was running behind us screaming, and I thought it was Angela . . . we put the Twinkie down in our largest booth, and damned if it wasn't the Twinkie barker chick. She grabbed it and ran back across the way with it.
A few hours later, Cari (one of our psychics) went over to apologize for stealing it. While she was doing so, Eric and his girlfriend Kristen thugged the Twinkie again, and since the Twinkie girls were inside the counter instead of out barking, they had to come around and retrieve it via vicious tug-of-war.
I found out that Greg (King Henry) made it, and I'm gonna ask him how much it cost. If it's under $50, I'm gonna spring to have another one made, because I have several ideas, all of which would likely prove destructive.
First, I'd like to grab it and run screaming through the village with it, for as long as I could stand it, and then put it back where it was and act like nothing happened.
Second, I'd like to take it over to the Arena when the Scottish Highlanders are warming up for the Highland Games, and toss it like a caber.
Third, I'd like to heist it late at night on the final Saturday . . . and put it atop the front gate wall, where the fairies used to hang out and play.
We also want to thug it and dress it in scarves, and then deny it's a Twinkie. "Is no Twinkie, is Gypsy. Is Rosmerta, Gypsy psychic! No touch Rosmerta!"
105
posted on
10/11/2004 12:48:38 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Xenalyte
lotta bard in you, princess warrior
To: Hegewisch Dupa
It was an extensive tale involving many mini-heists. And the best part is, 'tis not yet all told! :)
107
posted on
10/11/2004 12:53:12 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Ciexyz
"I didn't think anything could be scarier than John Edwards in the debate"Two people without resumes?
108
posted on
10/11/2004 12:54:15 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: CurlyBill
To: Xenalyte
Easily one of the greatest stories of our time. It needs to be immortalized into an epic trilogy called the Lady of the Twink or something like that. Whadda ya think?
110
posted on
10/11/2004 1:26:49 PM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Great! Well when Marrakech gets overrun by mutant lizard people, don't come crying to me.)
To: Bacon Man
Oh, man, you are SO on! Y'all need to help plan the next heist.
BTW, this Saturday would be a good day to be there . . . we're hosting a "commitment ceremony" between - actually, among - two women and a guy. Word has it both the brides will be wearing white. I cannot wait to see this.
111
posted on
10/11/2004 1:35:06 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: Xenalyte
We'll be at Glocktoberfest on Saturday. We're planning to come Sunday.
112
posted on
10/11/2004 1:37:31 PM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Great! Well when Marrakech gets overrun by mutant lizard people, don't come crying to me.)
To: Bacon Man
We think the weather will rock. If it's even near as good as this past weekend was, it'll be PERFECT out there.
113
posted on
10/11/2004 1:47:25 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
To: CurlyBill
Hey, did anyone see this about a school closing in India because it's haunted. Better not tell the kiddies or they'll try using that to close down our school!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=2&u=/nm/20040921/od_nm/odd_india_ghost_dc
To: twigs
They were taped in with duct tape. They may have been buried outside and then removed and placed in the floor. Especially if they saw selling the place as an opportunity to ditch the evidence.
115
posted on
10/11/2004 7:26:53 PM PDT
by
TheLurkerX
(John Kerry was America's most liberal senator before he became Jimmy Buffet's footwear.)
To: Protagoras
This murder will be solved.Welcome to Free Republic's C.S.I.
116
posted on
11/01/2004 10:38:58 AM PST
by
dware
(Go then. There are other worlds than these.)
To: dware
117
posted on
11/01/2004 11:44:34 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Hating Kerry doesn't make you a conservative.)
To: dware
118
posted on
11/01/2004 11:44:55 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Hating Kerry doesn't make you a conservative.)
To: dware
119
posted on
11/01/2004 11:46:39 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Hating Kerry doesn't make you a conservative.)
To: dware
I liked the pic so much I posted it thrice.
120
posted on
11/01/2004 11:51:38 AM PST
by
Protagoras
(Hating Kerry doesn't make you a conservative.)
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