Claire
Master Chef
Another interesting ghost story was that I had a friend who lived in an apartment complex near me. She swore that she and her roomie would see a ghost they called "the Colonel" (we were about a mile from the Pentagon). I laughed at her (yes, I've learned that even if you don't believe, don't make fun). Then one day I was working very late, and the general's secretary said she'd drive me home. As we were going by this apartment complex (yes, and old one), the secretary told me that a man she used to know, yes, a colonel, had lived in that complex. In a bizarre accident, he was driving behind a cement mixer which fell off of the truck and killed him. He was an old bachelor who had just fallen in love and was to be married soon. Just for curiousity's sake, I did go back and check up, and he had lived in the apartment my freinds lived in. No, they had no way of knowing the story. They were certainly more than a little freaked when I told them the real story that went with their "ghost".