This civil war type haunted spot, located at the intersection of Hwy. 8 and Hwy. 97 near Warren Arkansas, is rumored to be the playground of departed civil war soldiers. A civil war battlefield is nearby, and so is a state park, and that probably doesn’t hurt the story any. The legend is an old one, and any real details have been lost to time. Might be worth the look, though… but only if you are already in the neighborhood.

Highway 365 is one of those famous haunted highway cases. Apparently, every now and then, a motorist will stop and pick up a hitchhiker on this highway. The girl will ask for a ride home. When they arrive, the driver turns and the girl is gone. If the driver actualy knocks on the door of the house, the girl’s mother answers, and says that her daughter was killed a while back in a car accident, and that this has been happening ever since.

(I don’t know if this story was the inspiration for Rick Springfield’s song “Misty Water Woman”, or maybe the song inspired the legend, but the story is almost identical to the lyrics of that song.)

Alice Ghostly, much beloved actress who was best known for her portrayal of Esmerelda on the sixties comedy “Bewitched”, has passed away today. She was 81 years old. An extremely versatile character actress, she had a long career on stage, screen, and television. She will be missed by most who ever saw her ct.

I will update with the gravesite when it becomes available.

There aren’t a whole lot of people who don’t recognize the name Jimi Hendrix. For a left handed boy, he played a right handed guitar pretty well. So well, in fact, that he became a legend. On September 18, 1970, Hendrix was found unconscious by his girlfriend. Despite all attempts to revive him, he was declared dead at the scene. The coroner’s report states the cause of death as asphyxiation caused by his own vomit (yeah, I didn’t need that picture either.)

Hendrix’s body has been moved from his original gravesite and reburied, and can currently be found at the Greenwood Memorial Park in Washington.

Back in the eighties or so, Jim Nabors, best known for his portrayal of “Gomer Pyle”, was reported dead of AIDS. The report, as I recall, even ran on national news channels. The news was interesting to Mr. Nabors, I am sure. As far as I know, as of this writing, he is still living on his farm in Hawaii.

(And in case he ever finds his way to this blog, Mr. Nabors, I loved both your acting AND your voice!)

Apparently, 2001 was an incredibly unlucky year for Britney Spears. In June of that year, a radio station reported that she and Justin Timberlake had been killed in a car crash, together. Apparently neither of the pair had the sense to lie down, because later that same year a faked up web page killed off Britney again, in another car accident. You’d think she would learn to stay off the information highway, wouldn’t you?

(for those of you who need to be told, both Britny and Justin are alive and well at this time.)

Back in about June of this year, when Paris Hilton was doing her overblown, overpublicized, and rather undeserved stint in jail, several websites popped up claiming that she had been stabbed to death while in jail… and then there were the websites that claimed she had committed suicide. The websites had a tendency to look very professional (one even mimicked CNN), but the reports were, of course, false. Paris is still with us.

These are the real “Carrie” and “Grace” from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House” series. There isn’t really much information available about either of them. While they do in fact each deserve their own separate entries here, I would be hard pressed to come up with a full entry based on the information available to me.

Carrie was born on Aug. 3, 1870, and passed away on Jun. 2, 1946.

Grace was born on May 23, 1877 and passed away on Nov. 10, 1941.

Carrie is buried in the DeSmet Cemetary with the rest of her family, in DeSmet, South Dakota. There is no information available to me about the burial location of Grace.

Mary Amelia Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born on Jan. 10, 1865. This is the person who is represented as “Mary” in both the “Little House” book series and the “Little House on the Prairie” television series, where Melissa Sue Anderson played the role. Unfortunately, the real Mary and the one portrayed on television were in no way alike. The real Mary Ingalls never married, and lived with her younger sister Carrie and her family until her death on Oct. 17, 1928. Mary is buried near her parents in the DeSmet Cemetary in DeSmet, South Dakota.

Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, the mother of esteemed children’s author Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born on Dec. 12, 1839. She is one of the characters so well described by her daughter in the “Little House” books, and that character was played by Karen Grassle in the “Little Houe on the Prairie” television series, which was based on the book series. The show was very popular and ran for many years. Caroline Ingalls, along with her pioneer husband, was a founding citizen of the town of DeSmet in South Dakota. She died on Apr. 20, 1924 and was buried in the DeSmet Cemetary, near most of the rest of her family.