Hangman's Hill
The highest point of the Old Wooded Graveyard, it was upon this hill that New Jerusalem citizens hung the suspected witch Goody Fowler in 1704. Legend maintains that spending the night alone on the hill on May Eve or Hallowmass guarantees a visit by Fowler's ghost.
Some claim to have attempted the vigil and to have seen nothing. Others swear they have seen Fowler's ghost. A few claim to have talked with her. Some have fled in terror and refused to speak of what happened. A few have disappeared without trace, other than odd hoof-like shaped tracks found the next morning. Duval Gaines, the old stonecutter, is the only living witness to these events.
Any one attempting this vigil most certainly meets the ghost of the long-dead witch.
Those that have seen Goody Fowler's ghost report that she seems to condenses from a white fog on the summit of Hangman's Hill. She has an evil, wrinkled face and a body veiled by a burial shroud. Those that have seen her attack others sayTo attack, she extends one hand around the victim's throat, to hold him or her, and skewers the victim's heart with ectoplasmic extensions from the fingers of her other hand, holding herself so that the resulting spray of blood passes through the upper portion of her shape.
Fowler appears only to single individuals. Tales that she talks or reveals secrets are lies; she is single-mindedly vicious and only attacks. Fowler may pursue a target who has somehow caused her to recoil, but she always dematerializes upon reaching the iron fence at the edge of the cemetery.
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Mountain / Hill
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