I will share with you a ghost story from my family. My g- grandmother was Katy Cox Scott. She had a sister named Ginny Cox. They were the children of Joshua Cox.Ginny married Clarence Smith and this tale was told by Ginny many times.She swore her whole life it was true.

Ginny Cox Smith & Clarence Smith lived in Insull, KY. They owned a house with an upstairs. Now at the top of the steps going upstairs there was a door. This door had a latch on it and was not to be opened by anyone by order of Ginny; as told to me by my relatives.

Ginny and Clarence had a very stormy marriage, always fighting and bickering. One night after a particulary ugly fight they went to bed, bad feelings still between them. Ginny got in her side of the bed & pulled the covers up over her. She happened to look over toward the hearth where they kept the fire for heat.She saw a white apparition vaporize out of the hearth. She sat there dumbstruck as this entity started slowly walking toward the bed where she lay.

Ginny could here footsteps on the bare floor , just like a person would make, as it headed toward her in the bed. Nearer and nearer it drew, footsteps echoing as it came closer. When it reached the edge of the bed it reached over and threw the covers off Ginny!! The thing grabbed at Ginny's legs and got hold of her ankles. It then sqeezed Ginny's ankles three times, very hard. Ginny said it's hands were cold as ice. While Ginny sat there in terror the ghost walked away and headed toward the stairs. It entered the door at the top of the stairs. Well, after that Ginny latched that door and did not let it be opened again.

Ginny always swore after this incident that it was Clarence's dead mother that appeared to her and "punished" her for fighting with Clarence.