Louis C. Jones, a folklorist and author of the popular book, Things That Go Bump in the Night, mentions a ghost story that is very famous. He places it in the Troy, New York, area, but variations on the story's locale have popped up all over America, and even other countries. It has been retold over and over. Here are two versions. One is a story from a special ghosts issue of Classics Illustrated, which I took from Pappy's Golden Age Comics, the other a story from the celebrated pulp magazine, a 1939 issue of Weird Tales, which is available on the Internet Archive.
