Union Cemetery contains graves and fieldstones dating as far back as the 1600's and up to and including present day burials. The Easton Baptist Church, which stands to the right of the cemetery was built in the 1840's, centuries after the first settlers were interred here (perhaps on an old church foundation?)
There are many stories attached to this plot of land, the most popular being that of "The White Lady", a ghostly figure that to this day her identity is unknown. She has been reportedly seen in and around the graveyard for over 60 years now. She appears in a white nightgown or wedding dress, and travels many miles between Union Cemetery and Stepney Graveyard (next to Our Lady of the Rosary Church) which is less than ten miles down the road. A fireman was said to have struck her after viewing the road in front of him take on an eerie red glow, and seeing a farmer with straw hat seated beside him in his truck. He looked up to see the white lady with hand outstretched and could not stop in time. He heard a thud and the truck was visibly dented. No sign of the woman was to be found however.
Union Cemetery and the “white lady“ in entirely.
I gave the cabinet to my sister. She kept it for a week, then gave it back. She complained that she couldn't get the doors to stay closed and that they kept coming open. There are no springs in the door mechanism and I have never found that the doors come open. I gave it to my brother and his wife who kept it for three days and then gave it back. My brother said it smelled like Jasmine flowers, while his wife insisted that it put out an odor of cat urine. I gave it to my girlfriend who asked me to sell it for her after only two days. I sold it the same day to a nice middle aged couple. Three days later, when I came to open the shop for the day, I found the cabinet sitting at the front doors with a note that read, This has a bad darkness. I had no idea what that meant. Anyway, I ended up taking it home. Then, things got even worse.
Dibbuk Haunted Jewish Wine Cabinet Box in entiriety .
Burlington, NJ, also claims to be the birthplace of the Jersey Devil. In 1735, Mother Leeds was in labor on a stormy night. Gathered around her were her friends. Mother Leeds was supposedly a witch and the child's father was the devil himself. The child was born normal, but then changed form. It changed from a normal baby to a creature with hooves, a horses head, bat wings and a forked tail. It beat everyone present and flew up the chimney. It circled the villages and headed toward the pines. In 1740 a clergy exercised the devil for 100 years and it wasn't seen again until 1890.
The Jersey Devil in entiriety .
Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief — oh, no! — it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it has welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself — "It is nothing but the wind in the chimney — it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel — although he neither saw nor heard — to feel the presence of my head within the room.
Poe‘s Tell Tale Heart in entiriety.
When I was 14 (in the 1960s) my daddy decided that farming was his next big thing, and he bought an 18th century farmhouse and property from an eccentric old lady who was a story in herself, in New York ... and we hadn't lived there long before we were visited by The Ghost. (We named him Albert, for no reason other than that we had to call him something). Albert was a short man with dark hair, and although he manifested himself in various parts of the house, particularly in the kitchen/pantry, the only place he was seen was in the furnace room, a dim figure in the shadows that scared the bejezuz out of the handyman the first time he went down there ... although the house also had a poltergeist (which is not a ghost as you probably know, but an energy field), Albert never bothered anybody and we got used to him and his footsteps on the stairs or closing doors.
Freeper KateatRFM Ghost Story in entiriety
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THE HAUNTED PALACE
BY E. A. POE, ESQ.
In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace —
Snow-white palace — reared its head.
In the monarch thought's dominion —
It stood there!
Never Seraph spread his pinion
Over fabric half so fair.
Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow —
This — all this — was in the olden
Time long ago —
And every gentle air that dallied,
In that sweet day,
Along the rampart plumed and pallid,
A winged odour went away.
All wanderers in that happy valley,
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute's well tuned law,
Round about a throne where sitting (Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The sovereign of the realm was seen.
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door ;
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,
A troop of echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
But evil things in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate!
Ah, let us mourn — for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate!
And round about his home the glory,
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.
And travelers now within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows, see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody;
While, like a rapid ghastly river,
Through the pale door;
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh — but smile no more.<
Ghost (1990) PG13
Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
rotten tomato rating: 78
Romantic, suspense, ghost story. 2 hours; 5 min
Ghostbusters (1984) PG,
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd,Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts;
rotten tomato rating 100%
Classic Comedy Ghost story. 3 hrs; 20 min
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) PG13
Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley ,Geoffrey Rush
Rotten Tomatoes rating 80%
Historic Humor Action w/Ghosts who are heroes; 3 hrs. 32 minutes
Halloween, (1978) R,
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis
Rotten Tomatoes Rating 100%
Horror, suspense - best of the group; 1 hour; 44 minutes
The Addams Family (1991) pg13
Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
Rotten Tomaotoes Rating 71%
Creepy Black Comedy/Horror spoof; 2 hours
6th Sense (1999) PG13
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, , Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg
Rotten Tomaotes Rating 85%
Mystery suspense 1 hr; 45 minutes
The Others (2001) PG13
Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston
Rotten Tomatoes Rating 81%
Spooky thriller ; 1 hr; 43 Min
Pet Sematary (1989) R
Dale Midkiff, Fred Gwynne, Denise Crosby
Rotten Tomatoes rating 44
Stephen king Thriller w/naughty ghosts; 1 hr 43 min
Haunted( 2001) PG13
Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews
rotten Tomatoes Rating 80%
spooky horror suspense; 1 hr 43 minutes
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir( 1947) Not Rated
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders
Rotten Tomatoes Rating 100%
Romantic ghost story. 1 hours 47 min
Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968) G
Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette
Rotten tomatoes Rating 75%
Comedy Ghost story; 1 hour 48 minutes
The Haunting (1963) G
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Rotten Tomaotes Rating Rating 90%
spooky horror suspense; 1 hour 52 Minutes
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According to tradition, when the apostle John was overseer in Ephesus, his hobby was raising pigeons. It is said that on one occasion another elder passed his house as he returned from hunting and saw John playing with one of his birds. The man gently chided him for spending his time so frivolously. 
