Legacy Monuments - 581 W Church St
The town's only tombstone and monument maker. The owner, Duval Gaines, has lived above the store for the past forty years and has seen some odd and disturbing events in the nearby graveyard clearly from the vantage of his bedroom window. He has also heard the cries of haunted things late at night. When he was younger, he carved capitals for the columns of some of the University's ornate buildings.
Gaines was once a rather jovial individual, but four decades living next to arguably one of the most haunted cemeteries in New England has left him silent and brooding. He would like to move, but he lacks the confidence to relocate his business.
He has also, on occasion, seen the ghost of Goody Fowler appear on Hangman's Hill on May Eve and Hallowmass. Once, in 1928, he witnessed the murder of a man who intended to spend the night alone atop the hill. Sitting atop the hill the stranger from Boston waited for the ghost. He didn't notice the dark forms slinking between the tombstones, silently circling the hill. When the ghost of Goody Fowler appeared, the stranger was taken by fright and attempted to flee. But Goody's ghost seized the man and strangled him with her claw-like hands. After drinking his blood she tossed the body to the dark slinking forms who dismembered it horribly, then dragged it away and proceeded to feast.
Duval watched this whole thing from his window, afraid to move. He has never spoken to anyone about it. Police, looking for the stranger, found traces of blood atop the hill and questioned, along with others, the old stonecutter. Duval claimed to have seen nothing.
The old man is friendly and reasonably talkative about most subjects he will speak plainly to interested individuals about his theories of "the things going on over there." He may even admit to seeing the ghost of Goody Fowler.
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