The staff at Sweet Memories
affectionately call their ghost "Harriet" as they believe it may be the
ghost of Harriet Van Allen who lived in the house from 1869 till she met
an untimely demise in 1871 at age 44. Harriet is not a malicious ghost
but has been a bit un-nerving at times. Some of her antics include:
Frequently opening & closing the
front door & occasionally the back door.
One time a noodle came flying
through the air in the kitchen & landed on the floor. Since the
staff wasn't cooking noodles that day they have no clue where the
noodle came from.
Sometimes small objects at Sweet
Memories get rearranged.
Another time near Halloween a
small scarecrow table decoration fell over all on it's own on an
unoccupied table while
Cindy Merx, owner of Sweet Memories, was reciting stories about
Harriet to the Parkland Paranormal Society. This event was
witnessed by six people including Gene Carroll.
One day Harriet did not like a
table cloth that had been put on one of the tables & kept removing &
putting it in the floor while the staff was busy with other
projects. After four or five times of replacing the table cloth
Cindy told them that apparently Harriet didn't like it & to put a
different table cloth on the table. That one stayed on.
Another time the upstairs tenant
asked Cindy if she had been there late baking cookies the night
before as he had smelled cookies baking all night. She had not been
there the night before.
One time the staff was
discussing ghosts & one of them stated how they didn't believe in
ghosts. At that time a can of Mandarin oranges flew out of the open
kitchen cabinet & landed directly at the skeptic's feet.
A shadow person was observed
running through the dining room in Sweet Memories.
There are more stories but you
will need to contact Cindy about them.........
