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Marengo
by Mark Moody
I had an encounter in the month of May about four years ago when I was
visiting with a friend in the tavern downstairs. I noticed that as I was
talking to him, my attention was diverted to an area of the room that has
a round mirror hanging on the wall. For the life of me, I could not
understand why my attention was being diverted that way. It must have been
more of a subconscious kind of thing. But all of a sudden, there was a
woman that appeared. She was standing in the front of the stairs. She had
on black boots, a charcoal-gray skirt, a wool-looking skirt with pleats in
the front, a blouse that was high around her neck, her hair was piled up
on top of her head. She was an attractive woman around 35 or 40 years old.
She appeared to have recognized me, but she also had a look about her that
was between sadness and bewilderment. I didn’t say anything to the
friend of mine who was with me, and I asked him if he’d like anything to
drink. At that point, I got up to get us something to drink, and he
screamed. I knew that he had seen her. The hair on his arm was standing
up, and water was coming out of his eyes and he was stuttering. He said,
"You will not believe what I just saw!" and I said, "I
might." and he described the same thing that I had seen.
That happened in May about four years ago, and in May, a lady from
Birmingham who helps the Birmingham police department solve missing
children cases and various crimes through means of psychic use came here
for dinner for the first time. She had a date with her. And when they came
in here, the first thing she said to my parents was, "Do you know who
the lady sitting of the front porch with the black boots and the
charcoal-gray skirt and the blouse that’s high on her neck and the hair
on top of her head is?" We said, "No, we don’t know who she
is, but we know who you’re talking about." And she agreed to come
back at another time and go through he house with a small tape recorder to
try to recap some of the events that had taken place in this house over
the years.
She seemed to feel that the woman was the wife of the doctor who
originally moved this house across the river and rebuilt it on this site.
She thought that perhaps he might have had an abusive tendency, that he
may have struck her in a fit of rage perhaps, and this may have led to her
early death. And whether that is what happened, I couldn’t verify that,
but I can tell you that [the spectral image] was as real as it could be.
You could see every expression on that woman’s face. You could see when
she blinked her eyes. You could see when she moved her hands. You could
see everything about her clothes. When she turned to go up the sitars, you
could see her lift her foot up just like anybody would. It was an amazing
experience. Really.
There have been other people who have seen her. We have a specific area
in the tavern in the basement where we will have a group of people, and
somebody will come up to you and sort of catch you by the arm and will
say, "Has anything ever happened in this room in this particular area
right here?" And we’ll say, "Why do you ask?" And they’ll
say, "Whenever Is I stand on this particular spot, I get an uneasy,
frightened feeling." And you might go a month or so, and a new group
comes, and you might not get anything, and then that same thing will
occur, and it is always in that same room, in that same spot, and that is
that area down in that little bar in the basement. So, my guess is that
the area where that little tavern is located now was a free-standing,
outward building that was a kitchen. And as you are aware, the reason they
did this was two-fold. One, because the kitchen produced so much heat that
they didn’t want it in the house. The other was the risk of fire. When
this house went through a complete renovation in the ‘60’s, this
outward building was completely removed, and of course that’s where the
tavern is now. My guess is that this building is where something traumatic
perhaps happened to this woman. It could have been through an argument or
an accident. And I think that might be what’s causing those people to
have those feelings of discomfort. And it doesn’t happen to everyone.
You might have one person that mentions that to you. But they’re
convinced that something has happened there.
Continued.....
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