Will Dockery
2018-02-20 02:19:42 UTC
Ghost Girl of Hearn Road
Anything you can tell me
about a somewhat ghost story
of a young girl
who lived on the Hearn Road?
On the side of Hearn Road
next to old Tatum School
we'd pick maypops and blackberries
avoiding Wolf-bane and rabbit herbs.
Up at the top of the hill
where the Beddingfields later lived,
by the big old cedar tree
is the ghost
of the flaming haired girl.
The young girl,
maybe in the 1920s or 1910s.
caught herself on fire
and ran out on the Hearn Road
or fell by the tree.
Mom, when she was a child
nine years old
was spending the night up there
with Mary Ellen Chase.
Mary Ellen and her brother Larry
were Mom's Tatum School friends
who lived there then...
at the top of the hill.
Mom, Mary Ellen and Larry
had seen The Wolf Man movie
at LaGrange Theater that night
one night in December 1941.
At bedtime that night
Mom was told this story,
a Goat Tale,
and got so scared
she took off running down the road
running home.
Mom ran home so fast
Grandmama said she could hear her
feet clopping on the ground
as mom pretty much galloped home.
"I felt good when I got on the porch..."
she says now.
-Will Dockery
Anything you can tell me
about a somewhat ghost story
of a young girl
who lived on the Hearn Road?
On the side of Hearn Road
next to old Tatum School
we'd pick maypops and blackberries
avoiding Wolf-bane and rabbit herbs.
Up at the top of the hill
where the Beddingfields later lived,
by the big old cedar tree
is the ghost
of the flaming haired girl.
The young girl,
maybe in the 1920s or 1910s.
caught herself on fire
and ran out on the Hearn Road
or fell by the tree.
Mom, when she was a child
nine years old
was spending the night up there
with Mary Ellen Chase.
Mary Ellen and her brother Larry
were Mom's Tatum School friends
who lived there then...
at the top of the hill.
Mom, Mary Ellen and Larry
had seen The Wolf Man movie
at LaGrange Theater that night
one night in December 1941.
At bedtime that night
Mom was told this story,
a Goat Tale,
and got so scared
she took off running down the road
running home.
Mom ran home so fast
Grandmama said she could hear her
feet clopping on the ground
as mom pretty much galloped home.
"I felt good when I got on the porch..."
she says now.
-Will Dockery