Haunting tales about historic places and people

<p dir="ltr">The mysterious disappearance in 1913 of a 9-year-old girl in <strong><a href="https://www.cityofnewcastle.net/">New Castle</a></strong> triggered a national search that continued for years. The possible abduction and murder of <strong>Catherine Winters</strong> - who vanished while walking on one of the town's busiest streets and never was found - became a haunting tale that continues to be told to this day.</p> <p dir="ltr">Another eerie story - also rooted in history - is set at the <strong><a href= "https://www.in.gov/idoa/2431.htm">Indiana Statehouse</a></strong> and involves an eccentric judge who was elected in the mid 1940s and served through the 1950s. <strong><a href= "https://www.in.gov/judiciary/supreme/files/justice-bios.pdf">Indiana Supreme Court Justice James Emmert</a></strong>, who kept a rifle in his office, was known to shoot noisy pigeons from his third-floor window. Ever since his death in 1974, security guards and Statehouse staffers occasionally have reported seeing a ghostly figure - clad in a judicial robe and toting a rifle - wandering the hallways.</p> <p dir="ltr">And in <strong><a href= "http://www.cambridgecityindiana.org/">Cambridge City</a></strong>, a historic town on the <strong><a href= "https://visitindiana.com/trip-ideas/26502-travel-the-historic-national-road">Old National Road</a></strong> (now US 40) in far-eastern Indiana, a spooky tale involves the former home of <strong><a href= "https://www.historynet.com/long-sol.htm">Gen. Sol Meredith</a></strong>, a <strong>Civil War</strong> hero who was the leader of the legendary <strong><a href= "http://www.ironbrigade.net/">Iron Brigade</a></strong> in the Union Army. A series of tragic deaths occurred in the historic home, resulting in folklore about a ghost sighting.</p> <p dir="ltr">Historian and author <strong>Al Hunter</strong>, a columnist for the <strong><a href= "https://weeklyview.net/">Weekly View</a></strong> newspaper based in the <strong><a href= "http://www.urbanindy.com/neighborhoods/irvington/">Irving