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Location:
This housing development was built
on what was part of the Kolb Creek Farm, which is just outside of Marietta,
Georgia.
Description:
This development was described as
being an exclusive subdivision of houses, built on beautiful rolling hills
and among wooded areas.
History:
The Kolb Creek Farm was the sight
of a Civil War skirmish where soldiers died, near Kennesaw Mountain June
22, 1864, known as The Battle of Kolb's Farm. Estimated casualties: 1350
(Union: 350, Confederates 1,000) It happened around the time of the major
battle at Kennesaw Mountain, when General Sherman and his troops tried
to defeat Confederate General Joe Johnson's troops who had dug in around
the mountain. Johnson's troops held their position, costing the union
troops the loss of several thousand lives. The original farm house has
been preserved as a historic place.
Photos from ngeorgia.com
Manifestations:
Residents of these houses have reported
having apparitions of Civil War soldiers walking through their homes.
One couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tatum, not only had one walking through their
house, but the ghost decided to move in with them, after taking a liking
to one of their guest rooms. Then, he started to amuse himself by teasing
them both, in mischievous, creative ways.
1) The Tatum House - Located just
down the road from the original farm house.
History and Description:
As well as being located on Kolb Creek
Farm farmland, this house was built on top of an old homestead site. Mr.
and Mrs. Tatum fell in love with the area in 1986, and had a 2 story,
contemporary home built in this development for their retirement years.
It has an attic, with pull- down stairs. On the second floor, the Tatum's
bedroom had its own bathroom, and there was a hall bathroom as well.
* After a year of living in their house,
an apparition decided to move in with them. One night, both the Mr.
and Mrs. got up to use the bathroom. Mr. Tatum went into the bedroom
bathroom, while Mrs. Tatum went to the hallway bathroom. Suddenly she
saw a shadowy solid figure of a man silently walk by her open bathroom
door. He had a hat on and was wearing a long overcoat, worn by soldiers
of the Civil War. He was swinging his arm, like he had a destination
in mind, and went down the dark stairs, disappearing suddenly from sight.
She thought that her husband had gone downstairs, but was surprised
to find him back in bed!
* About a month later, Mrs. T was
reading on her bed after dinner. During that day, Mr. T was using an
electric drill in his project to fasten a board to the hallway floor,
so the pull-down stairs would not gouge the floor. Suddenly, she heard
someone playing with the drill, turning it on and off. When she could
no longer stand it, she ran out in the hallway, to find no one there,
and the drill was cold to her touch.
* Another evening, she was upstairs
watching a television program. She started to hear a popping sound,
like static electricity coming from the middle of the room. She walked
around the room, trying to find its source. She then found the popping
noise following her around the room, coming closer and closer, backing
her into a corner, and finally coming right up to her face. She quickly
ducked down and ran downstairs to find her husband. Mr. T came up to
investigate, but found nothing.
* While putting her casserole in
the microwave, she felt two tugs on her blouse. She turned around and
no one was there. Her husband was puttering around outside.
* Mrs. T often feels a cold spot
in the upstairs hallway, and in one of the upstairs guest rooms. In
this guest room, she feels uncomfortable, like she was in someone's
private room. In a sense, she is as the ghost had moved in as their
guest!
* The couple had a little angel
bell in a guest bedroom, which Mrs. T was to ring when she needed her
husband for something, because the family room is so far away. Their
ghostly guest started to ring the bell. Mr. T would come up the stairs,
and the ringing would stop when he got to the top. His wife hadn't been
the one ringing it. When he started back down the stairs, it started
ringing again. The couple decided to try to outsmart the ghost and came
up with a pre-planned signal; if Mrs. T would ring it only 3 times,
then Mr. T would know that it was her. It didn't work. The bell rang
3 times, and once again Mr. T was fooled. In exasperation, he announced
that he wouldn't be answering any more bells. The bell stopped ringing.
* After having no incidents for
4 months, the teasing started up again. Mrs. T was reading in bed late
at night. She started to hear the change coins that Mr. T kept in a
wooden bowl on top of his dresser, methodically being dropped one by
one into the wooden bowl. She ran down the stairs to find her husband,
who once again came up to the bedroom and found nothing going on.
* It was at this point, that Mrs.
T began to understand that this teasing by their resident ghost guest
was happening when either of them were busy with something else, and
not thinking about what ghostly occurance is going to happen next.
* The next incident, she tried her
theory out. One evening, just after she had turned out the light, and
turned over in bed to go to sleep, she heard the tray on the bedside
stand behind her, start to be moved around, and the glass of water on
it being lifted, up and down. When she didn't turn over and look, the
Tums were dropped one at a time onto the tray. When she finally looked
over at the tray, it all stopped.
Still Haunted?
Yes.
The Tatums have learned to live with
their mischievous ghost, who likes to get their attention. It is
generally not a good idea to build houses on old battlefields, as ghosts
are more often than naught still haunting the place where they died. Nearly
every battlefield in the United States has its own ghostly inhabitants,
young men who weren't ready to die and have hung around, sometimes willing
to engage the living.
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