Haints, Spooks and Visions – A Halloween Down Home Story
October 1, 2009 by Hairy
Filed under Halloween Tails
By Lindsey Williams Haints, Spooks and Visions As the North Carolina Welsh migrated west through the mountains to the flatlands of Boot Heel, Missouri, they brought along their fascination with “haints”(haunts). Perhaps it was relief from the humdrum of cotton farming. Ghost stories were a diversion. Family relations on Saturday nights gathered at the home [...]
