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Saturday, October 02, 2004

Ghosthunt!!!

the title sums it all up. We went Ghosthunting today. We started off with trying to find Hanton City The directions were simple, but the landmarks were long gone. If you look at the webpage it tells you to take exit 8B off of rt. 295, go through 2 traffic lights and Hanton City trail would be right past that. After driving through about 4 traffic lights, we turned around and headed back, we found a garden shop and right after that there was an old house and a road after that, we tried that road and it turned to a dirt road, just like the directions promised, we followed the directions, driving probably about a mile total, maybe a little farther. be careful of potholes, you can drive around them... We got almost all the way down and there was an old man sitting in a truck reading a paper, so we stopped to ask him and he was nice and all.. he said he'd lived there for 30 years and never seen a ghost.. we turned around and headed back, took a few pictures along the road and then decided to find a few more haunted places.
here are the pictures from Hanton City Trail:



this one looks a little foggy ;)





After we left there, we decided to try to find this place: Ramtail Factory I had no clue where we were going, other than "route 6 off of 295" (thanks John!) but we were having fun, so we got back on 295 and found the right road, drove through Johnston, Scituate and finally into Foster. We kept on driving and I said to Jamie "let me know if you see any signs that say Ramtail Road or something like it" 2 seconds later, we saw it at the same time, drove past it, did a u-turn (theres NO traffic there!) there it is.
See, we found it.

Just the street though, we drove all the way through it. nothing. spooky. but nothing. turned around, nothing. went back. stopped at the cemetary at the beginning on the street to look for Dolly Cole's grave. I found that on the haunted places site.
"Foster - Dolly Cole's Grave Site - Dolly Cole, a suspected witch, lost her daughter to a house fire set by her neighbors thinking Dolly was in the house. She swore revenge on them all, and is seen wondering along the dirt road near her gravesite. Hauntings also include a spirit appearing to hunters on a private sportsmanship club while hunting and upon the lake on opening day of trout season"


if you look really hard, you can see Jamie in the second picture, hes way down the end, he was reading the stones. Scary thing happened when I was walking around in there. look at the first picture and see the fence at the back of the cemetary? I was walking around in the front and I glanced back there and I could have sworn I saw something walking over, it looked like a woman. just for a second. most likely it was my imagination running wild though!
look toward the back of the first picture. I see something there. maybe thats the woman i saw in the cemetary?
After we left there, we drove around a little more, we saw a sign for a covered bridge and found that. its not much of a covered bridge, but I took a pic anyway..

you get to see the front of the car from hell in that pic. (more on THAT later!)
We drove around awhile more, finally heading back to 295, I wanted to go to Cracker Barrel.. we found that pretty easily. the place was packed, so we went to Applebees across the street instead. We had a 45 minute ride home and Jamie's not familiar with the area, so I didn't get my usual margarita, but it was still fun. We left there, came home over the Newport bridge, checked out the cruise ships in Newport Harbor (sorry no pics. I forgot!) and we're almost home. Maybe 2 miles from my house, right past Stop and Shop and the car decides it going to die. right there, in the middle of the street. yep. I swear that cars cursed. middletown cop pulls up behind me and asks if we're okay. I said yeah, sorta. I got it started, pulled off the road into the old bus parking lot. car died again. wouldn't stay running. I'm pissed. We called Jamie's dad to come get us. Jamie's telling the cop how we drove all over the state ghosthunting and the car dies a mile from home. The cop says "sounds like you brought one back with you" guess we did. I get home and about an hour ago I called AAA to have the car towed. I drive my mom's car down there and get in the car and it starts. no problems. I drive it all around the parking lot. its fine. told ya. its cursed. I called AAA Back, said never mind.