The Moonlit Road - The Hunt

	Storyteller's Cabin
	Part One - Ghost Hunting
	Part Two - Hell Hole

New Hope/Pickett's Mill, Georgia
October 2000
(Part Three of a Three Part Series)

Over the years, we at The Moonlit Road have received hundreds of e-mails asking our advice about hauntings and other paranormal encounters. Most of the time, we answer that this site is, first and foremost, a storytelling site that teaches the world about Southern history and culture. We choose ghost stories primarily because they are some of the most entertaining kinds of tales, and provide a window into the cultures they come from. There are plenty of other sites that study the paranormal in depth.

But do we really believe in ghosts? Speaking for myself, I don't know if I'm a "believer," but I know I'm not a "disbeliever." Nothing in life surprises me anymore. Think about how so much of what we see around us is colored by our perceptions - how we are the products of what we've been taught by outside forces, no matter how well meaning. Who really knows what "reality" is, and what exists out there beyond our everyday lives - if anything. Until someone comes along who can prove to me without a doubt that he/she knows the Absolute Truth, then as far as I'm concerned, your opinion or outlook on life is as good as mine.

Ghost stairs

Which, in a longwinded way, leads us to ghost hunting. Of all the paranormal entities, ghosts and spirits tend to cross the line into the mainstream more than any others do. Everyone seems to have a story about a personal experience with a ghost, a haunted house down the road, or the presence of a loved one recently deceased.

Yes, human beings are natural storytellers, and some people who tell such tales might be more haunted by themselves than any ghost. Still, there are just so many reports of ghosts that it made me wonder if perhaps there was something to the stories after all - that perhaps ghosts are real, and walk amongst us.

In October 2000, I set out on a ghost hunt with Cheri Mohr Drake of the Georgia Haunt Hunt Team. What you are about to read is a diary from my experiences. I'll leave it up to you to decide what you want to believe. After all, who am I to say you're wrong?

Craig Dominey

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