Do you believe in ghosts? Folks say River's End is haunted
RUTHERFORD COLLEGE - Most people love a good ghost story, but actually being confronted with ghostly incidences is a different story.
River's End Restaurant on Malcolm Boulevard has a long and varied history, with some of it dotted with unexplained occurrences.
Milton Pons, a former owner of the restaurant, said the home has been used not only as a restaurant, but started out as a private home and also served, for a time, as dormitories for Rutherford College. Pons has since sold the place.
"I've been there almost 16 years and I've never seen a ghost there yet," Pons said.
However, Pons said an employee was working in the restaurant by herself one night and heard a door slam.
No one else was in the establishment.
The incident scared the employee so much, she locked up the restaurant and went home.
Pons also said some of the doors shut by themselves sometimes.
"Maybe a ghost shuts them, I don't know,"Pons said.
According to the house's history, the place was built around 1893 by Theodore Franklin after he married for the second time.
"He married this young girl and they spent their honeymoon in a hotel in Connelly Springs," Pons said.
Franklin built the house as a scaledown version of the hotel, Pons said.
The place also was used as a dormitory for the college, and it was used as a residence again.
Emma and Henry Harvey Kincaid bought the house in 1945 and lived in the house for more than 35 years.
Mary Kincaid Miller grew up in the house with her siblings.
Throughout the years they lived in the house, the Kincaid family would hear unexplainable sounds in the home.
"We would hear doors slam but we didn't think much about it," Miller said. "We thought it was the wind blowing through."
At other times the stairs in the home would creak, but Miller's father explained it away by saying the house was settling.
But it was one particular night that vividly is burned into Miller's memory.
Miller's father worked third shift, so many nights she would sleep in her parents' bedroom with her mother. The two were in the bedroom when they heard noises.
Miller's mother decided she was going to find out if someone was in the home.
The two went out into the hallway.
"It sounded like somebody came up the stairs," Miller said.
When it got to the top of the stairs, Miller said it sounded as if someone had cardboard or stout paper and was hitting it as they went back down the stairs.
"And there was nobody there," Miller said.
"She (Miller's mother) said, 'Get back in the bedroom.'"
When the two ran back into the bedroom, they shut the door and pulled a dresser in front of the door.
Carl Webb bought the house and turned it into a restaurant called the "Farmhouse." He later changed the name to the "Steakhouse." Although he said he never experienced anything unusual,Webb said he had an employee who claimed she came into work early one morning and the chairs in the front room were facing each other.
The night before, the chairs had been sitting side-by-side.
Some employees also were afraid to go into a small basement in the house that was used for storage.
"They claimed the lights would come on by themselves," Webb said.
Although he said he used to feel strange being there at night,Webb said, "I never really experienced anything." Was it a ghost or something associated with just normal sounds a house makes late at night?
River's End Restaurant on Malcolm Boulevard has a long and varied history, with some of it dotted with unexplained occurrences.
Milton Pons, a former owner of the restaurant, said the home has been used not only as a restaurant, but started out as a private home and also served, for a time, as dormitories for Rutherford College. Pons has since sold the place.
"I've been there almost 16 years and I've never seen a ghost there yet," Pons said.
However, Pons said an employee was working in the restaurant by herself one night and heard a door slam.
No one else was in the establishment.
The incident scared the employee so much, she locked up the restaurant and went home.
Pons also said some of the doors shut by themselves sometimes.
"Maybe a ghost shuts them, I don't know,"Pons said.
According to the house's history, the place was built around 1893 by Theodore Franklin after he married for the second time.
"He married this young girl and they spent their honeymoon in a hotel in Connelly Springs," Pons said.
Franklin built the house as a scaledown version of the hotel, Pons said.
The place also was used as a dormitory for the college, and it was used as a residence again.
Emma and Henry Harvey Kincaid bought the house in 1945 and lived in the house for more than 35 years.
Mary Kincaid Miller grew up in the house with her siblings.
Throughout the years they lived in the house, the Kincaid family would hear unexplainable sounds in the home.
"We would hear doors slam but we didn't think much about it," Miller said. "We thought it was the wind blowing through."
At other times the stairs in the home would creak, but Miller's father explained it away by saying the house was settling.
But it was one particular night that vividly is burned into Miller's memory.
Miller's father worked third shift, so many nights she would sleep in her parents' bedroom with her mother. The two were in the bedroom when they heard noises.
Miller's mother decided she was going to find out if someone was in the home.
The two went out into the hallway.
"It sounded like somebody came up the stairs," Miller said.
When it got to the top of the stairs, Miller said it sounded as if someone had cardboard or stout paper and was hitting it as they went back down the stairs.
"And there was nobody there," Miller said.
"She (Miller's mother) said, 'Get back in the bedroom.'"
When the two ran back into the bedroom, they shut the door and pulled a dresser in front of the door.
Carl Webb bought the house and turned it into a restaurant called the "Farmhouse." He later changed the name to the "Steakhouse." Although he said he never experienced anything unusual,Webb said he had an employee who claimed she came into work early one morning and the chairs in the front room were facing each other.
The night before, the chairs had been sitting side-by-side.
Some employees also were afraid to go into a small basement in the house that was used for storage.
"They claimed the lights would come on by themselves," Webb said.
Although he said he used to feel strange being there at night,Webb said, "I never really experienced anything." Was it a ghost or something associated with just normal sounds a house makes late at night?
Labels: Do you believe in ghosts? Folks say River's End is haunted
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1 Comments:
holy crap this restraunt is rightbehind my house i never knew anyone else had experiences there butmy cousin and i did as children when we ate in the room with the forest wall paper the door in that roo,m was usually shut but opened on its own one time when we were playing...my family went there alot and my step mom worked there but i thought brian and i were the only ones to ever get scared..guess i was wrong
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