up in Harris Hollow was the scene of a

up in Harris Hollow was the scene of a yearly ghostly event, according to Charlie Baldwin. Christmas Eve, not Halloween, was the night that the Oscar Baldwins and their children heard the yard gate open, the sound of feet along the board walk, and the front i door open and close. | “All of us children heard it," Baldwin said. “The first ' time it happened, mother was alone. My father had taken her sister home to White Post after a Christmas Eve visit. Mother had already gone to bed. She got up and lit a kerosene lamp • there was no electricity up the hollow then. She went down the hall - the living room was to the left and the kitchen to the right It was an old house • the floors and doorways weren’t entirely plumb, so the door dragged on the floor when it opened. Mother thought Dad was playing a trick on her and she looked and looked but there was no one. She told us about it and we kind of thought it would happen again and it did. Every Christmas Eve after that we listened and heard the same noise. All of us children heard it: Clarence, George, Aubrey, Lena and myself.’’

L. J. Turner, who practices medicine in Warrenton but grew up on Mt. Salem Avenue in Washington, told us a story that happened to him when he was a child in Rappahannock:

“Where Judge Snead’s house is right at the edge of town there used to be a cattleguard and beside it a big oak. I think the oak tree is still there. We used to hear and to tell a tale that a man had been hung from that oak - years ago, even then. His name was supposed to have been Robert Fitzhugh.

“Well, folks said that you could go at night and stand under the oak and say ‘Robert Fitzhugh, what was you hung for?’ And a voice was supposed to answer back, ‘Nothing at all.’

“I went by the big oak one night and I said: ‘Robert Fitzhugh what was you hung for?’ That night. Jack Miller had some cattle in the field in back of some bushes and some.old. cow came up and