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“You don’t scare easily, do you?” I wasn’t sure how to answer. He continued, “I mean, what I’m about to tell you, well…you know you’re going to lose sleep tonight, don’t you?” He sat down across from me. “Doesn’t everyone love a good ghost story?” “No.” Henry glared at me for a moment. “Not everyone.”

When a friend’s grandson begins asking questions about occurrences that took place in a small village back in 1906, sixty-eight year old Henry was reluctant to tell his story. Having spent a lifetime planning to take it all to his grave – much like those dear to him, something changes his mind. Recounting his summer experience as a sixteen year old boy in the small town of Denver, Missouri, he describes the events that opened his eyes to the very real spirit world surrounding our own.