...??? right about now, I don't think so...

I will try to explain my point on this subject to the best of my ability. I am going to try and make this as short as possible but thorough enough for those to care to believe or/and understand.

All through my childhood, my mother used to tell us a lot of stories passed down from her mother and grandmother about slavery and events that took place during slavery. During my childhood, I thought some of the things that my mother would tell us about the past was, totally crazy but I later found a lot of things that she told us were very true. As a child my mother was the first to tell all of her children about Mermaids. At first, it seemed like a fairy tale but her stories were later told by my grandmother and other family members and yes, I now do believe that Mermaids really did exist. Mermaids did not seem to be a big thing to the people of the past. It was just a thing with them that if they had to travel the waters in their homemade canoes, they would know to take a BIG stick or other large object to hit a Mermaid if they tried to pull someone from their canoe.

My mother also told us that ghosts helped free the slaves in the south. When she first told me this, I just knew she had surely "Flew The Coop"!!! My mother, grandmother and other family members frequently mentioned the ghost face in the Aliceville AL, which is the state that they grew up in. Yes, I believed this and I did have the opportunity to see this ghost face in the window back in the '70's and again last October. I did post about this last year. The first time that I saw this image in the courthouse window, it was amazing to me and ever since I saw the face there, I always wondered what would happen if they ever demolished the courthouse building???

We went back to see it again, last October and I was very happy to be able to show this ghost face in the window to my 16 year old niece and her non-believing in God and spirits brother this image. This time when went to see it, we were able to stand right there, take photos and walk on the grounds of the courthouse building. There was a time that blacks could not go on the grounds of this building and were not allowed to stop or stare at the image. When we saw the image last October, it took a whole new spin on me!!! On our way back from AL to Chicago while waiting on our plane to arrive my niece found a lot of information about the Face in the courthouse window, I still didn't think a lot more about it until I got back home and she sent me this link>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkjr1Ml0gj8 ???WTF!!! This story is no where near the story told to me by my mother and grand parents. I even met a White lady from that town when I was in the hospital back in the late 1980's that told me the same version of the story that my relatives told me, which was the face in the window, which I found out last year was named Henry wells. This lady also said that he was hung for looking at a White woman and that he denied the criminal charges and promised the judge in this case that if they hung him that they would surely see him again. The judge considered Henry Wells words as being totally disrespect to him and ordered them to hang Henry right in from of him so that he could watch. Short after Henry Wells died from hanging, his face appeared in the courthouse window where he was executed. They said the judge had them change the window several times but his face would re-appear the next day.

After my niece sent the link about this, I started to do some internet research about the Henry Wells story. I found out that the old lady in the U-tube video in the above paragraph was an honorary citizen of Aliceville AL and also worked at the Pickens County Courthouse. I was TOTALLY SHOCKED to find out this this lady, her daughter and her son had been in a double murder/suicide about 9 months before we went to the courthouse to see the image of Henry Wells!!! >>>http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20131206/NEWS/131209823

This Henry Wells ghost story has been very heavy on my mind since our return from Alabama. There is so many questions and no real answers about this particular ghost story...The obvious lies about this story, the quiet, hush-hush part of this priceless piece of African American history.

Yes, Alabama is a real place for ghost in my opinion. I even learned about, "The Thirteen Ghost Of Alabama" A book written by a lady by the name of, Kathryn Tucker Windham>>> http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2014/07/take_a_photo_tour_of_real_site.html I have not read the book but I did look at some of her links on U-Tube.

For those that don't believe that there is really such of a thing as ghost, you need to go and see it for yourself. It is as real as the sun and the moon that shines above us all, there is no denying that the image of Henry Wells is real>>> https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=AtM9ltN8dQLafCWcPxrqrmebvZx4?p=Henry+Wells+Ghost+Images&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-700&fp=1

If you wonder how this relates to the subject of taking a tour of a plantation??? I did finally realize that there was some truth in what my mother told me about ghost helped free the slaves. From what I have heard, ghosts started popping up in the big fabulous plantations just like Henry Wells and the people that lived on these plantations had to leave out of fear. I doubt very seriously if the tour guides on these plantation tours are going to tell any of these type of stories which do exist.

Even Spike Lee touched on stories of this type in his movie, "Tales From The Hood">>> https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=A2KLqID0dKFVQhgALv00nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByYXI3cnIwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDNA--?p=Tales+From+the+Hood+Plantation+Scenes&vid=da38842c1f76dd8a58d9beee84a4a2b5&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.CuQazw1yhQYCDM7Dizf8tQ%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D166%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DuW6S19_dUwU&tit=Corbin+Bernsen+Vs+Niggra+doll&c=3&h=166&w=300&l=46&sigr=11bfk3o93&sigt=10tr2sl4e&sigi=12ktqk2d1&age=1291125191&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&hsimp=yhs-att_001&hspart=att&tt=b I do believe stories of ghosts were very common during our plantation days.

It seems to me that THEY want to pretend that God did not play a part in the slavery game and that we came as far as we have thanks to THEM & us. I just want to know why, why, why so many secrets about God & spirits when the subject of slavery come into play???

I really don't think I want to go and tour a plantation, just like other people that posted here, I think it would hurt me too much and knowing the knowledge that I picked up last year in Alabama and linking the other things that I learn about African American slavery, I think it would just be too much for me to bear. I haven't gotten over the image of Henry Wells that we saw in Alabama last year. Since that visit, I have no desire to ever go back that way again. I cannot watch Ghost stories like I used to before I went there. I always have an open ear for any knowledge that I learn about our slaver days, but to tour these places would be too much for me to deal with right now.

The story of slavery is deeper and wider than any ocean or sea and I feel that I have seen enough. I will watch stuff about it on tv, word of mouth or the internet. After writing this mini-manuscript, nope, I don't think I want to take a tour of any plantations down south or go to any places down there with any prevalent slavery stories :-) :-) :-) !!!



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