Look twice before shooting!

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Please welcome guest author Wayne Easter. “I was born in a one-room log cabin (in 1932) in the foothills of the Blue Ridge,” he says. “We had ‘very little of nothing’ and stayed that way for many years. Even so, as my Pa said, ‘We owned our souls and owed no man.’ As time passed, the Gods smiled upon us, things improved I grew up and moved to town, after some of the ‘hardest times you ever seen.’ As I look back from today, it was the best of times and the worst of times; times that will NOT come our way again.“

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Crooked Oak Primitive Baptist Church (established July 1878 and also known as Zion Hill) still stands today on Pine Ridge Road in Surry County, North Carolina.

I grew up two miles away and heard tales of white ghosts in the cemetery across the road. I walked by a few times at night (very quietly) and never saw any ghosts, but my brother Warren did after he grew up.

As he drove by the cemetery one night, a white ghost crossed the road in front of his car and ran behind the church. He drove to his nearby home, got his shotgun and drove back by the cemetery again. Sure enough, there came the ghost again.

As it ran behind the church, Warren poked his shotgun into the air and blazed away with both barrels.

As he told me, “I went back next day, looked behind the church and found pieces of a white bed sheet hung in the “bob wire” fence.

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