Show Halloween Ghosts Have Year Year- YearLong Long Competition Halloweens Halloween's young phantoms phantoms phantoms phan phan- toms may be phony but ghost hunters claim that thousands of real live spooks walk by night throughout the world America has its share The gaunt apparition of Lincoln supposedly paces the upstairs halls of the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House though it hasn't been seen in some time Old timers in New Y Yorks York's rk's Hudson Valley say the Lincoln funeral train still makes its way up the valley 11 ey gliding along to the dirge of an orchestra of skeletons tons tans seated on a flatcar The Hudson Valley swarms with other ghosts notably the Headless Horseman w who h o chased after Ichabod Crane Cram Hawthorne observed that all of New England's old dwellings dwellings dwell dwell- in ings s are so invariably possEssed pos- pos sr sed with spirits that the matter hardly seems worth alluding alluding al at- luding to tJ the National Geographic Geographic Geo graphic Society recalls READS OWN OBITUARY The Boston Athenaeum the great private library on Beacon Beacon Beacon Bea Bea- con Street has its fund fun of ghost stories One of the most celeb celebrated is Hawthorne's description description description de de- de- de of the Rev Dr Thaddeus Mason Harris sitting sitting sitting sit sit- ting in the main reading room mulling over ne newspaper accounts accounts ac lC- counts of his death and burial Ghosts have long been a apart apart apart part of the American literary heritage The famed Moulton House in Hampton New Hampshire inspired Whittier to write his horrid poem The New Wife and the Old It was the old wife of General Jonathan Moulton who upset everyone's peace of mind by coming in the dead of night to try to tug her rings of the fingers of the new Mrs Moulton Moul Moul- ton Henniker near the New Hampshire re capital is the haunt of Ocean-born Ocean Mary a sweet tempered sweet tempered ghost with red flaming-red hair Recent Halloween Halloween Halloween Hal Hal- loween visitors to Marys Mary's home there failed to get even a murmur out of her but the present owner sa said d She is really here all the time She's so close I can almost see herOn her heron on Halloween night The ghost of another lovely lady sometimes hovers about the gates of Fort Ticonderoga New York This restless phantom phantom phantom phan phan- tom loved and lost General Anthony Wayne A less wistful lady ghost named Razzmatazz is part of folklore on the lower Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- River Razzmatazz set fire to her gentleman friend Brickbat Charlie and sent him floating downstream in a canoe She's been known to slip quietly into jails for a arest arest arest rest cure BLOCK ISLANDS ISLAND'S GHOST SHIP Seagoing ghosts keep busy especially on the East Coast For generations residents of tiny Block Island Rhode Island Island Island Is Is- land have dreaded the reappearance reappearance reappearance reap reap- on storm storm-riven storm riven nights of the ill-fated ill ship Palatine lured by wreckers to its death there in 1732 The ship is doomed forever to sail sall with rigging aflame and passengers passengers passengers pas pas- wailing in the night Soon after the historic frigate frigate frigate frig frig- ate Constellation was transferred transferred transferred trans trans- in 1955 from Boston to Fort McHenry at Baltimore the story got out that an apparition apparition ap ap- ap- ap was sneaking about the decks He was uniformed handsomely in cocked hat epaulets and striped gold-striped trousers At Washington DC D.C. the ghost of the Navy Yards Yard's first commandant haunted his old quarters in a flowing flannel nightshirt from his death in 1899 until the yard became the Naval Gun Factory in 1945 Legend holds that he vanished one night with a cry heard for miles around The East Coast seems to have the known best and most experienced ghosts But few of them can hold a candle to the Windigo Ghost of Roseau Wisconsin It appearance means death and it stands 15 feet tall |