The Haunted Stump was passed along in the 1953 story by Erasmus Foster Darby. It is one of the creepier bits of folklore and comes from the area that is now Pike Lake State Park in Ohio. You can read my version in Ohio Ghost Stories, The Classics.
Pike Lake State Park
Pike Lake Road
Bainbridge, Ohio 45612
39.159920, -83.218545
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1874). Scenes in emigrant life
Music from Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/richard-bodgers/dead-birds
Horrified Screams: 351336__visions68__girl-scream-frank-3
