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Seventh Year No ACTON ONTARIO WEDNESDAY AUGUST 16 Second Sect on THIS IS THE INDIAN TRAIL which winds through the pic- old Indian Trail through the valley hence the name Staff turesque valley where the Eramosa River flows before it joins Photo the mlllpond at Eden Mills The road is reputed to follow the Residents say theyve seen phantom on bridge Indians PERHAPS THE MIRROR LIKE SURFACE OF The Eramosa reflections in its depths where the red man once fished and River helps to create images of restless spirits as it gracefully hunted along its banks Staff Photo passes under the bridge on the Indian Trail showing myriad Are there spirits on the Indian trail By Lorraine like those once referred to as not see his face only the The gentleman at the bridge stove pipe a wide cloak that silhouette before he gently was a tall dark figure similar to swung knee length with a tall floated off the bridge up over the what one understands the slightly tipping in type of hat He parapet and down over the river Pilgrim fathers looked like Thin stood on the bridge looking more southerly never to be seen black garbed very tight pants or less southward and one could again Ghost stories Spirits in the Students of the psyche have long told us that there is much in the unusual dimensions of the sensitivity that we do not know and experts from the continent and North America agree that there is a thin line between the world of reality and that of extrasensory perception Numerous stories have been conjured by the early settlers of Wellington County many derived from distraught loneliness and constant fear Ghouls and ghosts were frequently mentioned in the old days and many towns have historic records of their own special apparitions Squatter spirit It is said when people would pass after dark a certain homestead in Township their horses had to be forced into a run so frightened were they of something they could not name It was thought that the who haunted the area was that of the original pioneer who had squatted the land some century a quarter before LAWN SPRINKLER Can both Indoors and outdoor Heavy cast iron with brightly grille Featuring 3 level lacquered hardwood handles and adjustable draft control 20 40 OFF on all LAWN PATIO POOL SUMMER SPORT EQUIPMENT LAWN CHAIR Comfortable web lawn chair aluminum frame with white plastic arm rests Tangerine or Lime FAN 22 Mill St E Acton 8532720 LAWN CHAISE Sturdy x web chaise with white plastic arm rests Adjustable S SOME RESIDENTS along the Indian Trail feel Spint Valley farm is aptly named but new owners Mr and Mrs Dick Strong are changing the name to Golden Valley Farm when they move into it soon Staff Photo Animals and cattle supposedly can not be made to enter a small treed enclosure near Aria Ontario and have been known to balk and run rather than make entry in that particular section of the field Certain cemetery grounds near Preston conceal an early historic incident and reliable persons tell of a trip one night with a team of who were accordingly most little cusses you could ever see The lady driver hadn t known there was a cemetery In that particular vicinity but was taking a short cut home when suddenly the horses reared plunged and hammered down the neck yoke and then took to their heels and ran out of there According to those individuals who have a more apparent contact with the supernatural animals possess an astute awareness of things not physical and instinctively are frightened by them Indian Splrita Not to be discounted are the more recent disclosures about spirits which pervade the vicinity of the Indian Trail near Rock wood and much of the interest In such Indian lore culminates from early history which is thought to be on the edge of the original Indian lands in the direction of Hurons According to the chapter entitled Indian Trail In Hazel Macks History of Eden Mills and Vicinity she wrote Though they may not have Lived here they certainly hunted here and had travelling routes through through this section and there may have been a permanent settlement Some older dwellers in the area actually feel that the spirits of the from sitting to reclining langar or Lime a CAMPERS AT THE EDEN MILLS Lutheran apparition The Indian Trail connects the camp inspect the bridge on the Indian trail on Third and Fourth Lines Eramosa above the which residents of the valley say they saw an Rockwood Conservation area Photo Indians have never left and that they still exist in another dimension in the same vicinity of the Indian Trail The encounter with the gentleman on the bridge was clearly defined by an resident recently whose story she said can be by reliable witnesses She tells of Living in the district of Eden Mills for a period of 22 years having moved from as a small child child to take up residence at an Indian Trail farm home For the majority of fifteen years this young woman had worked in Guclph driven back and forth daily by her mother who would drop her off at her place of employment and return to pick her up again in the evening Intense When approaching the bridge she said one would have the intense sensation that someone was on it and to a degree you would hesitate brake and brake again for fear of hitting them When you reached it there was no one Both women had the same sensation and experience for months years in fact said the Informant and she told of reaching the stage where from afar she and her mother could make out a shape possibly from a distance of a quarter of a mile and both felt there is someone at the bridge Such Impressions were limited to early evening and not at dusk because the store closed at six making the time possibly a quarter to seven but definitely not dusk It was not a trick of lighting though because It was the same whether it was a full sunny day or shadowy one Give him a home Then one night coming down on the clover hill it on the far side she continued I without any reasoning whatsoever had the thought Oh dear God give Mm a home Now she said Who be was or why the Lord should give him a home I t possibly explain to anyone as it was a completely subconscious thought based on a subsconscious reaction and to us both there appeared a manifestation As we slowed down I had this wish fv an unknown person and we both observed at the bridge a dark figure similar to what one understands the Pilgrim fathers looked like Tall thin black garbed extremely tight pant Eke those they used to refer to stove pipe tites a wide cloak not coat or jacket but cloak that swung knee length I should say and a very tell slightly type of hat Accordingly the apparition stood on the bridge and after Its viewing by both occupants of the car floated off the bridge up over the parapet and down the river gradually dissipating into the air Rather into the strata of being Continued on