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"The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever." - Fritz Leiber
After posting it I ran into a buddy of mine who owns several places in Jefferson, and he said, "Hey, I watched your video. Things like that happen to us all the time." That's the story with so many of the buildings around town - I can't explain it, other than to say that perhaps the veil between our world and the next is a little thinner here for some reason.
11/29/2025 - Jefferson Wassal Walk
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Happy (almost) Thanksgiving from The Grove! It doesn't even seem remotely possible that we're here at the end of another year... but here we are. This is going to be a quiet Thanksgiving for us - we've got a small turkey, and my wife and I are going to get up, watch the parade, and then have a wonderful meal. After that, it's a full-tilt assault on the house with the Christmas decorations. We hired a local high student to come help us bring everything down out of the attic, so all the decorations are in the correct rooms and they're ready to be put up. God bless this young man that has come over and helped us for several years. He can fly up and down the attic stairs, but with me, those up and down trips get a little slower every year. We love Christmas, though, so we're looking forward to getting The Grove decked out in its holiday finest. Meanwhile, this GroveZine has a few video links for you, and I hope that you enjoy the videos as much as I have. Let's jump right in!
Another online website that featured Jefferson recently is "Family Vacations U.S." - it's a great look at the city, but of course, our favorite part is when they feature The Grove. They did a wonderful job of profiling the city. They featured some of our favorite places such as the Jefferson General Store, the Gone With the Wind Museum, Oakwood Cemetery, and more. It's a great visit to the city, but as I said before, we especially love their part about The Grove. Just 
We had a tour with a bunch of great folks on a recent Saturday, and we'd made it all the way back the den. As I was telling some of the ghost stories from that room, I heard something but I wasn't quite sure what it was, so I just kept talking. Then I noticed that everyone had turned and was looking at the window in that room. I asked what had happened, and several people said, someone just knocked on the window. Other folks in the room were nodding their heads. I just shrugged my shoulders and kept going. I was grinning inside, though, because it really tickled me. You see, although the front gate wasn't locked, it was closed. That's the only way someone could have come up onto the property - but even if they did, how in the world would they know which window to knock on at that point in the tour? And there are many windows all around the house. I think that it was one of those supernatural "Hey, look at me!" things that happen occasionally... maybe the spirits just want a little acknowledgement... like most of us do!
Having said that, I can only remember two other times that I heard a pronounced knocking in the house. The first was when I was working one day, and the house was very quiet - you could only hear my fingers clicking on the computer keyboard. As I was concentrating on the screen, I suddenly heard three loud raps on the outside wall. I quickly determined that someone must be outside banging on the wall, so I ran up front and out the front door. There were no cars out front, so I ran to the east side of the porch and looked beside the house. No one was there, no one was running away, everything was normal. I dashed to the west side of the porch and looked out into the garden - same thing. I finally stepped down off the porch and made a more detailed inspection of the property, and I seemed to be the only one there - the only human, anyway...
We had something happen recently that just blew my mind. I mean, this was as interesting to me as anything that has happened in the last 20+ years. I started writing it up for the GroveZine, but I had several photos so it finally morphed into a video on the YouTube channel 
Well, we find ourselves at another Thanksgiving, and I hope that you have a wonderful one! We're on the very edge of Christmastime, so we have all the bins of decorations down, along with the Christmas trees, and we'll be getting the house into a festive decor this week.
