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hours meticulously creating the rafantel and cornice. A closed circuit security system surveys the eleven rboms. According td Ms. Goldman, one customer clainyed the monitor revealed a spirit within one of the rooms .If there are ‘presences' within the building, “they’re not mean or nasty," Ms. Goldman said. ''But they’re here.” AS MS. GOIsDMAN was hanging kitchen witches in the shop, she told how recent tradition has it that there is a ghdst named Hester who keeps an eye on I the shop. Hester was a Hildreth family member who died in 1949. The poltergeist investigators contend fester j S the 'agent' for the spirits. X. A five-year employee of Winterwood, Ms. Goldman acknowledged that she sometimes feels that she, too, came with the hofise. because, ‘Tve been here so

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OUTSIDE the shop, employees had arranged corn stalks, pumpkins and ghost squash for Halloween decorations. As A1 Flitcroft led one visitor through the old house, he showed the original front door with its old lock and hardware still in place — after more than two centuries of occupancy by Hildreths, Hands, Cresses and other dwellers. As A1 turned down the lights, preparing to close up the shop, I watched and listened within the various rooms of Winterwood. As we left the shop, a quarter moon rose against a darkened sky. I admitted to Ms. Goldman I had felt a sensation in the sJyrp. “I was really scared in there,” I said. "I was scared I would spend money!”

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