Old Fort Niagara is notorious for being "haunted",?mostly thanks to an 1830's tourist pamphlet starting?"The story of the haunted well", which will not go away, no matter how much we try to?play it down.?There's enough spooky stuff that happened for real around here; The commander of the 1759 seige's head being blown clean off after stepping infront of a mortar; two consecutive commanders dying on Halloween, the second in a freak storm rising off of Lake Ontario before his ship was even out of site of the fort, and most famously, we're the place where anti-Masonic hero William Morgan disappeared from. As per things that go bump in the night, we have many, many stories. This is my favorite.?One summer afternoon, a family came in from a long trip from Niagara Falls, and of coarse, the little boy in the group needed to use the bathroom. The Mom took him in, while Dad and the little sister paid for the tickets. The little girl kept pestering the father, claiming she wanted to go see the soldier. Once the mother came back, the family went on their tour, and coming to a couple of our military interpreters, the father proudly announced that they had found the soldiers. The little girl claimed that these weren't her soldier.?When asked what she meant, she described to the two soldiers exactly what a War of 1812 US Artillerist would be wearing. The problem with that is that we dress daily as Revolutionary War soldiers, and British to boot. There's no mistaking a man in a blue coat and shako with a man in a red coat and cocked hat. The father asked if we had someone on site dressed like that, and the response was no, so he asked her where she had seen him. Her answer was that he was watching them as they paid for the tickets. The father and the guy in the gate had seen noone. I'm hoping to get a collection of these stories published some time. Some really?send a shiver down your spine. Rory Bialecki Interpretive Programming Assistant Old Fort Niagara -----Original Message----- From: Gayle <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:26 am Subject: [MUSEUM-L] The Best Halloween Story About Your Museum Ok, it's Halloween.? We've had fun in the past with stories of ghosts and such, but it's been a while.? All you hobgoblins out there, dish!? What is the best Halloween story about your museum?? Hauntings, strange happenings, apparitions, disappearances, tricks on coworkers . . . tell them all! ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- Unlimited storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).