In a small community in Plains, Georgia, it is said to be that a small built in 1840 is haunted by a woman wearing a long white gown holding a candle. Almost a century later a woman named Rosalynn and her husband, Jimmy Carter, moved into the house after he came out of the service. They had repaired the house after they had moved and setteled in. One night when the entire family was sitting in the living room, they heard a loud crash from the attic. They thought it was from the window up there. When they got up there, nothing was seen to be found. Then they began to hear other noises and bangings other days. Neighboors said the could see the old woman with her candel standing at the window. They say she was a wife waiting on her husband, a Conferderate soldier, to come back home from the war (Roberts 8).
I don't believe that the neighbors actually saw the women in the window, I think they wanted to believe the woman was still there. I'm not saying ghosts aren't real, or they are real, but I think the neighboors and the family were psyching themselves out about the whole thing.
Roberts, Nancy. Southern Ghosts. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1924. 5-8. Print.
