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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 10,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>OLD BLUEFIELD INN REAL HAUNTED HOUSE</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Ghost Walks at Norfolk and Western Division
Headquarters When It Is Not Pay Day</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Bluefield has a real haunted house, and it is
none other than the one-time Bluefield Inn, the present division headquarters of
the Norfolk and Western. Those who work the watches when graveyards are
supposed to yawn and graves give up their dead, whisper the story, but W. H.
Martin, who manipulates the key in the dispatcher's office during the little
hours, has actually seen the "haint."</DIV>
<DIV align=left> A night or so ago, Mr. Martin was pounding
the brass at a lively clip, when three distinct knocks were heard at the
door. He attended and there stood a being in the form of a man of terrible
visage bearing a striking resemblance to the pictures of the devil. Mr.
Martin is not certain whether he had horns and cloven hoofs or not but he rather
thinks he had. In his ears were rings set with blazing diamonds, and his
countenance was most forbidding, but being a brave man Mr. Martin invited the
strange creature in. It stood stiff, and when Mr. Martin advanced it faded
into the air without making a solitary sound. The alarm was spread and
diligent search was made throughout the several rooms of the building, but no
trace of the ghostly visitor was found.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The strange appearance revives the tradition
that there was an ancient Indian burying ground in the vicinity of where the
building stands, and the supposition is that what Mr. Martin saw was some
departed chief returning from the happy hunting ground to be near the ashes of
his people.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>And to think that this was published on neither April 1st
nor Halloween.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>