From: "Christian Fowkes" (c_fowkes@yahoo.com)
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Hansell Road & The Mother's Chair
Date: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:09 PM
I have lived near Hansell Road for nearly 30 years and used to go see the ghost with friends on cold, crisp autumn evenings in the early 90's. I can attest to seeing the ghost dozens of times.
The story behind the ghost I am most familiar with was that a group of teens were drinking back there in the late 70's and crashed on the way out. The weird thing is that they never found all the bodies. Back in the day before all the develpoments you would drive up the what we called "the mother's chair" and wait to see the ghost.
Why "the mother's chair"? It was a tree with a bend in it that looked like a chair. It was said that the mother of the missing kid was so distraught from the loss of her son that she would spend hours on the road. And finally the depression killed her. It was her ghost that you were seeing because she was trying to see if you were in fact her missing child.
As for the writer who says it was mirrors on the road...I used to ride my bike on that road when I was just a little kid and there were maybe 3 houses back there. Where we would set up to watch the ghost was no where near any of the houses. This theory was floated back in 1992 and we tried to find mirrors and never saw any. And why would someone even need a mirror when pulling out into a dirt road which was never travelled on. The physics of that excuse just don't add up either. The "mother's chair" was just way too far from Rt. 413 to get a reflection. And one last thing...you could see it from either side (with Rt. 413 in front or behind you), which I have done and we saw the ghost when NO cars were coming down Rt. 413.
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