The Corner

Paranormal Activity

Here’s what I love about my local paper, and I don’t mean the Washington Post. Today’s front-page feature story in the News & Messenger (of Prince William County, Va.) is about a couple of tombstones found in the basement of a rental property. They apparently once marked the graves of a woman who died in 1935 and a man who died in 1980. The property owner has no idea what they were doing there. The last renters split town in a hurry and didn’t leave forwarding information. A guy who does odd jobs in the house insists that a light bulb recently turned on when the power was shut off. Cue the Twilight Zone music. If I were a writer of ghost stories, I’d have my next idea.

John J. Miller, the national correspondent for National Review and host of its Great Books podcast, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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