Black Gold, Volume 3, Number 2, 1977 Page: 3
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Why Ghost Stories?
You may wonder what we did for entertainment when
there were no televisions, radios, movies and not too
many magazines. Well, the black man developed the art of
story telling, especially ghost stories. The highlight of
the evening was to sit around the fire while roasting
potatoes and peanuts in the hot ashes was to hear about
the ghosts that haunted old houses and guarded buried
treasures.
My dad, born in 1875, just ten years after the Civil
War ended was very good at spinning the most hair-raising,
nerve tingling stories about "hants" that you ever heard.
One of his favorites was the following:
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Panola College. Dept. of Communications. Black Gold, Volume 3, Number 2, 1977, periodical, 1977; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth151415/m1/5/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Panola College.