My mother told me that , when a young girl in New Castle, said she and her sister used to hear footsteps coming up the back stairs at night. But every time they went to try to catch the owner of the footsteps, as soon as they looked the footsteps stopped and nothing was there to be seen. Another story she told me of old New Castle , a widow would on occasion be awakened to see the ghost of a young black woman standing at the foot of her bed, staring at her, and would vanish when she got out of bed. Some time later while gardening, she found several old bottles buried together with their bottoms up. She researched it and found it was an old superstition of slaves to bury bottles that way in a hearth to ward off unwelcome spirits. She realized she discovered old slave quarters and understood the young black girl. The next time the young ghost appeared, the woman told the ghost her master is long dead and gone and she has nothing to fear. The ghost of the young black girl slowly vanished and was never seen again.
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My mother told me that , when a young girl in New Castle, said she and her sister used to hear footsteps coming up the back stairs at night. But every time they went to try to catch the owner of the footsteps, as soon as they looked the footsteps stopped and nothing was there to be seen.
Another story she told me of old New Castle , a widow would on occasion be awakened to see the ghost of a young black woman standing at the foot of her bed, staring at her, and would vanish when she got out of bed. Some time later while gardening, she found several old bottles buried together with their bottoms up. She researched it and found it was an old superstition of slaves to bury bottles that way in a hearth to ward off unwelcome spirits. She realized she discovered old slave quarters and understood the young black girl. The next time the young ghost appeared, the woman told the ghost her master is long dead and gone and she has nothing to fear. The ghost of the young black girl slowly vanished and was never seen again.