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Seguin's
Headless Ghost
THE GHOST ON MILAM STREETby
C. F. Eckhardt
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Milam
Street in Seguin is a quiet,
peaceful byway with some beautiful Victorian homes lining part of it. They share
the street, come some nights, with a most unusual ghost.
Nobody knows
where he originated, this ghostly figure that walks the east side of Milam Street.
The street ends--or once did--at Riverside
Cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in Seguin.
It's pretty obvious, then, where the ghost's walk starts, but why he walks so
purposefully to the north, no one knows. No one, in fact, has any idea who he
was. Or why he has no head. |
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It's rumored that
he was a Confederate soldier whose head was lost to a cannonball during some battle
in the East, and the remainder of his body was shipped home by rail. He walks
Milam hoping to catch a train back East, to find his head. However, the railroad
didn't reach Seguin until
1877, when the War had been over for 12 years.
At College Street Milam
makes a slight jog to the west, then continues on north. The ghost doesn't make
the jog. He continues to walk straight north, alongside the west wall of a small
house owned by friends of mine. Their cats apparently ignore the apparition, but
their dogs take definite notice of it. Friends of theirs have stayed with them,
sleeping--or trying to sleep--on the living room sofa. Nobody's done that more
than once. There's a certain effect when the ghost walks along the outside of
the wall the sofa sits against that no one, apparently, wants to experience twice.
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| Junction
of College and Milam Street showing brush and trees directly in the Headless Walker's
path. Photo courtesy Ken
Rudine, October 2009 | |
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