{"id":997,"date":"2018-05-07T23:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=997"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:48:54","slug":"so-who-believes-in-ghosts-farm-abandoned-on-collingwood-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"SO, WHO BELIEVES IN GHOSTS? (FARM ABANDONED ON COLLINGWOOD ROAD)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cSO, WHO BELIEVES IN GHOSTS?\u201d<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
May 2018<\/div>\n

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The house and barn were abandoned  a long time ago.  People just walked away leaving everything behind\u2026furniture, farm equipment, last mail delivery.  <\/div>\n
I bet some of you noticed the place on the road to Collingwood\u2026west side between Duntroon and Collingwood.   Nearly all gone now.  Buildings sat there forlorn for<\/div>\n
two decades  or longer. Then a couple of years  ago The house was<\/div>\n
demolished but the barn still stands with the ghostly wreck of the giant threshing machine still standing on the threshing floor visible to passersby on the Collingwood  road<\/div>\n
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many of the barn siding has been blown off by the winds of time.<\/div>\n

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Robert Root and I visited the site\u2026with permission\u2026sort of permission that is to say.<\/div>\n

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\u201cHey, Rooter, let\u2019s ask the farm across the sideroad if we can go in to take some pictures.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAre they the owners?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t rightly know.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cCould Rooter and I take some pics of that\u2019d abandoned farm?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWe are not the owners.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t touch a thing.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSuppose that is your business\u2026not mine\u2026go ahead.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy has the place been abandoned\u2026looks like it was once grand\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDispute over the will\u2026No one quite sure who owns  what so no one can touch nothin\u2019\u2026or so we\u2019ve been told.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cUs?  Promise not to touch a thing.  Rooter is a Baptist\u2026honest as the driven snow.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNot my business.\u201d<\/div>\n

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So  Rooter and I walked through the tall grass to the house and then out to the barn.  No sign of life but lots<\/div>\n
of evidence of a life that was once lived here.  Books, letters, newspaper collection\u2026phone book.   <\/div>\n

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\u201cHey Rooter, look here.  There\u2019s even a section of the house for the hired man\u2026at the back\u2026separate.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCould be a hired  woman,  Alan.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cReckon?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBarn is full of things\u2026Thresher, fanning mill, single horse plough, root pulper\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd the water pump still works\u2026want a sip\u2026a little brown.\u201d<\/div>\n

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And that was an hour that both Rooter and I will never forget.  Sad. Tragic.  Like a love affair gone bad.<\/div>\n

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\u201cDid you see any  goats, Alan?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNope. did you?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNope\u2026supposed to be ghost here, you know.\u201d<\/div>\n

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WE MISSED THE GHOST\u2026HE WAS OUT BACK WITH THE HARNESS\u2026GETTING READY TO HARNESS  UP HORSES\u2026THE GHOST WAS THERE. (scroll down)<\/div>\n

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\u201cSO, WHO BELIEVES IN GHOSTS?\u201d alan skeoch May 2018 The house and barn were abandoned  a long time ago.  People just walked away leaving everything behind\u2026furniture, farm equipment, last mail delivery.   I bet some of you noticed the place on the road to Collingwood\u2026west side between Duntroon and Collingwood.   Nearly all gone now. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}