Haunted Tag

Haunted Decatur!

In our travels we have visited many haunted places, but for some reason we've overlooked one of the most haunted cities in the Midwest: our home city of Decatur, Illinois.  There's a lot of information in old newspapers and local legends about Decatur's ghosts and...

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Destination: Cape Cod

Destination: Cape Cod Haunted Tavern We spent the first night of the trip in Bedford, PA.  There, we found a tavern/Bed & Breakfast that was built in the 1760s: the Jean Bonnet Tavern.  This building has seen a lot of American history including meetings of Pennsylvania farmers...

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Savannah

Streets of Savannah We’ve always had this mental picture of Savannah, with magnolia trees everywhere, and tall oaks dripping with Spanish moss; all amid quiet tranquil beauty.  Pretty vivid mental pics, yet neither of us had ever been to Savannah.   That all changed a couple of days...

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Williamsburg and Beyond

The four of us (Monte, Aleta, Mona and I) arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia early Sunday afternoon. We checked in and headed to the nearby Jamestown.  This is where the first permanent English-speaking colony in the Americas was established beginning in 1607 and from where we learn...

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MA.

  We started out from Mystic around 9:00am and got on I-95 headed for Salem, Massachusetts.  We quickly exited Connecticut and entered Rhode Island.  Rhode Island zipped by and in seemingly no time we were approaching Providence.  Mona was navigator and while looking at the maps she noticed that...

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