From a distance you would never guess the horrible rumour that is behind this old stone house. From a distance across a farmers field it just looks like a old stone farmhouse. As we got closer we noticed something really unusual. Take a look at a couple of the following pictures and see if you notice anything off.
Did you notice it??
Some of the windows have been stoned in!!
So the horrible story that goes with this house is that when it was built a family lived here. One day the mother was upstairs making the beds and tidying up. The children were outside playing. The house was built near a train track and she heard the train coming blowing its whistle. She ran to the window just in time to see the train run into her one of her children who had wondered onto the track as they were playing. They say you could hear her scream for miles. The husband blocked off the windows that faced the tracks as a way to try and help his wife deal with the horrible event.
Some people still claim that you can hear her scream when a train passes.
Now who knows if this story is true or not but often these rumours or legends are born out of some truth.
Once you get past the story and take a minute to admire the house you have to admit the talent that went into building the old stone homesteads. They used what was handy to build which was often rocks that they gathered clearing their fields. The colour that these rocks display I find beautiful and they display such talent the builders had and they were built to last. This house was built in the early 1800’s.
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