At the Cemetery, the Boy Stared at Them Coldly

Gerry Tuoti
Taunton Gazette
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Rehoboth, Massachusetts (US):
There are people in this woodsy town who claim to have seen ghosts at the 200-year-old Palmer River Burial Ground on Lake Street - in particular, that of a small, grotesque child.
The boy would appear and disappear at different spots in the cemetery.
The witnesses said the boy stared at them coldly.
One woman said she encountered the ghostly boy while doing historic gravestone rubbings at Palmer River Burial Ground. A few days later, while she was doing more grave rubbings at Mayflower Hill Cemetery in Taunton, the woman saw the same ghostly child.
People searching for a good ghost story this Halloween don't need to look far. Scary tales of the undead are all around us - even in the modern world of the Internet and space shuttle launches.
Charles Turek Robinson, an author who lives in quaint Rehoboth, has heard these stories too: Stories that gave him the chills and inspired him to pen two books about local superstitions from bygone years.
He said several witnesses who told him they saw a ghostly young boy with a deformed leg at the ancient burial ground. "Somehow - if the cemetery is, in fact, haunted - a troubled youth from Rehoboth's distant pass may play a central role," Robinson wrote in "True New England - Mysteries, Ghosts, Crimes and Oddities.
Robinson said that people who died young and those who died in unnatural or violent deaths seem to be the most common subjects of ghost stories.
Oct 31, 2005