Comment about: Local Hauntings
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| June 29, 2008 | | Hell Hollow was named beacuse the land there was of poor quality for farming. The legends probably are not true. | In The Day of October 26, 2003, reporter Eileen McNamara published an article about the Maud Reynolds legend, after researching town records and interviewing descendants of the Reynolds family. The article indicates that Maud was less than 2 years old when she died. She may have been buried near the homestead so that the grave could be seen from the house; two of her brothers are buried nearby. The article goes on to mention that, after Maud's grave stone was repeatedly vandalized and replaced, posted at the site warning that anyone who tampered with the grave would be cursed; this may have been how the mistaken legend got started. I have collected the information and cited sources in a trail guide, The
Story of the Yawgoog Trails, at: http://www.mdc.net/~dbrier/yawgoog/trails/hell-hollow.html The sources are listed in Appendix C. Many of the sources are available online. http://www.mdc.net/~dbrier/yawgoog/trails/appc.html | |
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