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So I was watching television this morning I heard about the curious case of William Cross. William Cross was the brother of the caretaker for the National Cemetary in Washington D.C. during the Civil War. He was also a widower who helped his brother in the cemetary because that was where his wife was buried. William contracted an agonizing disease and was often heard wishing for death to take him.
One morning one of the stable boys came in to the stable at the cemetary and found William hanging from the rafters with a rope tied by his own hand. He was buried in the cemetary next to his wife Sarah. A few weeks after he was buried, his headstone was struck by lightning and destroyed. They erected a new tombstone, which was also destroyed by lightning. Another one was erected which was blown over by wind, and a final one was washed away in a flood that only affected William's headstone.
Now William lies nxt to his wife, but his grave is unmarked. Since the final stone was destroyed, nobody has tried to place a marker for his grave. And somehow that has brought peace to William Cross, and no strange weather events have effected the cemetary since.
That is kinda creepy.
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In this morning's paper, they had an article about local ghost legends, and one really cracked me up.
A stranger tale comes from a woman in a 1964 west Irondequoit home. The original owners' daughter, described as a sweet and mischievous girl, was murdered. The current owners told Esposito that in the last few years, they started finding ladies' underpants appearing in their home. The first time, the wife, a jealous type, confronted her husband about four pairs that found their way into a laundry basket; he was dumbfounded. Now, they laugh it off, considering themselves the victims of a teen's pranks.
I bet this guy is still laughing about the time his wife found his girlfriend's panties and he blamed it on a ghost and she believed him.
...his headstone was struck by lightning and destroyed. They erected a new tombstone, which was also destroyed by lightning. Another one was erected which was blown over by wind, and a final one was washed away in a flood that only affected William's headstone...
A few hundred years later, William Cross's last decendant was a defense contractor who worked on the first 4 Babylon Projects.
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...his headstone was struck by lightning and destroyed. They erected a new tombstone, which was also destroyed by lightning. Another one was erected which was blown over by wind, and a final one was washed away in a flood that only affected William's headstone...A few hundred years later, William Cross's last decendant was a defense contractor who worked on the first 4 Babylon Projects.
lol