THE GHOSTS OF BLACK CREEK- Read more: cdispatch/news/article.asp?aid=28270#ixzz2ivv4jeHZ Next week two events, that appear at first glance to be unrelated, intersect. There is Halloween and the Columbus Decorative Arts and Preservation Forum, whose theme is Andrew Jacksons Military Road of 1817-1820. While it may seem strange that these two events are intertwined, the answer is simple. The oldest recorded ghost story in the area is of the haunting of the Military Road (Highway 12) crossing of Black Creek four miles northeast of Columbus. There in the early 1800s two people were murdered and a soldier died during the roads construction. Uncle Bunks drawing of the 1851 account of night time travelers seeing two men on horseback, with plumes in their caps, and great crooked swords dangling at their sides, rearing and plunging through the air about the height that the creek usually rises to in high flood, whilst a great white figure darted up suddenly, with a shriek, out of the dark pool. A present day photo of the old ford across the creek.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:12:09 +0000
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