From: Fuddbunny@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: The Dover Lights-another version heard
Date: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:07 AM
Hello, although I don't know for sure if this story is fact, I do know there were supposed to be silver mines somewhere in or around the Dover area, so it would make the most sense to me. Anyway, the story I heard about the lights, (which I am a former resident of Dover, and have myself seen things I couldn't quite explain.) was that around the great depression time, there was an elderly couple who lived "out in the boonies". At one time, the edlerly lady became very ill, and her husband sent for a doctor. (unfortunately I do not know any names) He gave the husband medicine to give to his wife, but the old man did not have any money. Instead, he made a deal with the doctor. He was very skilled at making his own hunting equipment, and assured the doctor that in payment for saving his wife, he would make him anything he needed, and handed him a bag of bullets. As time went on, both the old man and his wife passed away, and years later the doctor was going through some of his old belongings. He looked at the bullets the old man had given him, and remembered their deal, and polished them to display in his home. While polishing, he realized the bullets were made from silver. So the story after that is that the doctor sacrificed everything, his home, family, fortune, and spent his remaining days searching for the lost silver mine, and that the lights seen on occassion to this day is the light from his lamp. And that is the story I heard, believe it if you wish.
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