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GHOST STORIES MAKE FOR GOOD BOOS TONIGHT.(Local)(Column)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20061031
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Byline: DICK CASE POST-STANDARD COLUMNIST

I've never slept with a ghost. I wanted to.

The closest call happened a few years back at the home of a friend in Cooperstown. This Otsego County community has a reputation as one of America's most haunted villages, among other claims to fame.

I slipped between the sheets in a house that's been written up as haunted. It had been one of the Cooperstown Cooper family homes; we're told that at the death of a woman kin to James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, an image that looked like her was seen cruising the aisle in the ...

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