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Jeremy spent the rest of the morning hunched1 over a stack of books and the two articles Lexie had found. The first, written in 1958 by a folklore2 professor at the University of North Carolina and published in the Journal of the South, seemed to have been intended as a response to A. J. Morrison’s account of the legend. The article pulled a few quotes from Morrison’s work, summarized the legend, and recounted the professor’s stay in the cemetery3 over a one-week period. On four of those evenings, he witnessed the lights. He seemed to have made at least a preliminary attempt to find the cause: he counted the number of homes in the surrounding area (there were eighteen within one mile of the cemetery and, interestingly, none on Riker’s Hill), and also noted4 the number of cars that passed within two minutes of the lights’ appearance. In two instances, the span of time was less than a minute. In the other two instances, however, there were no passing cars at all, which seemed to eliminate the possibility that headlights were the source of the “ghosts.”
The second article was only a bit more informative5. Published in a 1969 issue of Coastal6 Carolina, a small magazine that went belly-up in 1980, the article reported the fact that the cemetery was sinking and the damage that had been caused as a result. The author also mentioned the legend and the proximity7 of Riker’s Hill, and while he hadn’t seen the lights (he’d visited during the summer months), he drew heavily on eyewitness8 accounts before speculating on a number of possibilities, all of which Jeremy was already aware.
The first was rotting vegetation that sometimes bursts into flames, giving off
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crackers
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creek
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crest
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hawk
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canyon
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spoke
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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marsh
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internship
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nourishment
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renaissance
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| 起涟漪的,潺潺流水般声音的 | |
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