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Subject: [Q-R] Excerpt Of History
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 13:11:45 EST
"You'd be hard pressed to find a single naval installation more haunted
than the US Naval Station at Norfolk, Virginia. Given the local history and
ghosts tendencies to become attached to physical materials, there's not much
question as to why there are restless spirits around the place.
By the 1760s, Norfolk had become a busy port. Supplies, money and materials
were not readily available, so when authorities began to construct the first
expansion buildings on the surrounding land, they used the materials most
readily at hand, discarded timber from sailing vessels that were no longer
serviceable. This is probably how the shipyard became haunted by a ghost dressed in
garb from the days of the Revolutionary War.
People working around those haunted buildings have named the ghost "John
Paul" because he resembles Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones. The apparition
is so clear that a World War ll soldier actually broke his leg fleeing in
fright from the harmless but lifelike image. The legacy of John Paul, the ghost,
no doubt dates back to the original colonies fight for freedom. Perhaps that
legacy from the Revolutionary War continues to reverberate, or haunt, to the
present day."
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