Favorite Haunts… …A Selection of the Seacoast’S Spookiest Stories
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INSIDE: TO YOUR HEALTH 26,000 COPIES Please Deliver Before FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2006 Vol. 32 | No. 41 | 2 Sections |40 Pages Favorite Haunts… …A selection of the Seacoast’s Spookiest Stories BY SCOTT E. KINNEY ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER There are really two types of ghost story. Oh sure, we all know the tale of the young couple on Lover’s Lane who get mixed up with ta hook-handed convict with a penchant for snuffing youngsters. Cyan But, then there is the other ghost story. The one that people don’t like to talk about. Magenta It’s the chill that crawls across the skin in a room clearly warmed by the sun. It’s footsteps in empty rooms, lights turning on or off without reason, phantom knocks on the door, or doors Yellow opening and closing on their own. Or it’s that one particular item that you put down, only for it to go missing and later returning where you thought it would be in the first place. Black The Seacoast area is ripe with stories of haunts, spooks, specters, poltergeists and other paranormal activity. Some well known, others less so. EXETER The Fogg-Rollins House Dating back to the 1700s, the Fogg-Rollins House is among the oldest in town. Located at the corner of Routes 111-27 the property consists of the family home and cemetery, a barn, a milk house and a wheelwright shop. Following the death of the Beatrice Rollins in HAUNTS Continued on 24A• Stubby, come home BY LIZ PREMO October 12. Stubby’s disappearance putting him back together.” ATLANTIC NEWS STAFF WRITER Shop owner Patty Young came following a rash of Patty says she contacted NORTH HAMPTON | says she figures he was abuse aimed at his larger the police regarding the Stubby the Scarecrow has stolen sometime during counterpart, Chubby. 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It’s international.” special dedication ceremony, Those who took part in the it marked a milestone for the recent annual gathering of the Dalton Genealogical Society Dalton Genealogical Society (DGS), based in England were treated to a “progress since it was first founded in report” of the Y-Chromosome 1970. DNA project. The complexi- Not only did the ceremo- ties of DNA investigation ny celebrate the placement of were documented in a five- a long-overdue family mark- page handout provided to er in Hampton’s Meeting the participants, as well as House Green Memorial Park, in a PowerPoint presentation but it also brought just over which described key results 50 Dalton family members discovered thus far. United Kingdom). FAMILY GATHERING — A Dalton family member (right, with video camera) captures a milestone together for an event-filled, One of the findings indi- Of those 71 family mem- moment in her family history as Elizabeth Aykroyd (left) addresses a group of about 50 Dalton descendents during a dedication ceremony at Founder’s Park in Hampton.