Halloween stories

 

 

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Halloween sparks ghostly tales

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Glynis Crawford Smith/The Highlander

Lahonda Tiner puts the finishing touches on the grim reaper who welcomes guests to her home at 307 Avenue F in Marble Falls. Her ghostly decor is all in fun, but spooky stories always emerge this time of year. Read this story from a former Bertram resident and, in the Friday edition of The Highlander, Managing Editor Lew Chon's own account .

By Glynis Crawford Smith

The Highlander

There is no better time for a ghost story than Halloween and there is no better ghost story than one one told first-hand.

The trail of a story shared by Michele Hart (aka “the Rug Queen), owner of La-Ti-Da & Elements in Marble Falls, led to Bonnie Estes. She lives in Dime Box today, but her ghostly encounter was in Burnet County territory.

“I'd bought this house, a 1917 Colonial in Bertram,” she said. “I was the third owner who carried the name Bonnie, which was strange enough.

“I bought the house along with its contents because the owner was moving out of state and couldn't take anything.

“I set out a box of things to keep and a box of things to throw away where all the sticky old Tupperware and trash went.

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