Haunted Travel: Peyton's Poltergeist
Freed slaves, led by Peyton Roberts, set up the town of Peyton Colony about 40 miles southwest of Austin after the Civil War. Today, it's a designated as a historic freedmen's settlement, but it's also considered a place with a hazy past--that brings cloudy apparitions late at night.
After a brief stint as Utopia (think, communal living, regular BBQs in the town square and softball and relay races in the park), the community fell on hard times in the 1920s and never completely recovered.
Today, the few remaining residents recognize their neighbor the poltergeist more than kids' laughter in the park. He floats around haunting the old church and schoolhouse, causes electrical problems in people's homes, turns faucets on and off by themselves. Resident Ellen Coffee has recorded some of the movements and sounds. After her work earlier this year, paranormal enthusiasts, psychics and other ghoul professionals flocked to the town to check out the action and try to capture a few of their own sound bytes and photos.
The poltergeist's spooky shenanigans and fleeting appearances are like the spooky version of Britney's crotch flashes, and he now has the paranormal paparazzi to prove it.
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