The Family Home

From: Christi Holder (clholder@bayspringstel.net)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Bruce, Mississippi
Source: Form Submission

The house I grew up in is the oldest house in Bruce Mississippi. Originally it was the post office when the town was known as Freedom, Mississippi. There have been several stories told to me about this place but I am only going to relate to you the events I have witnessed myself.

First I need to tell you a little history. Freedom Mississippi was the central hub in MS for the underground railroad. When my grandfather rebuilt it we found confederate money and fake slave papers for escaped slaves that were hidden in our home before and during the civil war.

When my grandfather bought the house from my uncle it was used as a haybarn. Ole Miss University asked Grandmother to use part of it for a museum but she did not want to open her house to strangers for 6 month a year. We did however donate all of the articles found in the hiding places ( Confederate money, fake freedom papers, clothes and such).

My story begins when my best friend and I stayed in a seldom used part of the house (we were sneaking home after curfew) after we both went to sleep I awoke to a scene from the town square. I was standing in the middle of the square and the whole town was around me there was a big bon fire in the middle of us. all of a sudden a black man in a knit cap came up behind me and slit my throat in front of the town.

I woke trying to scream but could not. My best friend woke beside me screaming because she had seen the same thing only as a spectator in the crowd.

We later learned that one of the slave that had been caught in our home had been killed in this exact manner I guess he still haunts the home today.