Out the car window, I can't see much more than moonlight as it flashes between the treetops. The crescent moon is veiled in clouds, creating an eerie, silver glow around it that does little to illuminate the pitch-dark night. We have been driving through the woods for the past 15 minutes, and the road in front of us seems to snake endlessly onward into the dark. It is a storybook night for a ghost hunt. I'm riding with Steve Kuhn, a team leader and public relations director for the Bloomington chapter of the Indiana Ghost Trackers, and we are on the way to a well-known cemetery in the area, at least to those who are familiar with local folklore. As we continue to drive into the woods, Kuhn tells me the story of the place we are about to "hunt."According to local legend, years ago a woman lost her baby and it was buried in this cemetery next to a tree. As a way of remembering the child, her husband cut down the tree and made it into a chair. As the legend goes, the apparition of a lady in black can be seen on certain nights, sitting on the stump of her lost baby's grave. Tonight I am accompanying the IGT on their pursuit of spirits in this place.During my orientation to the practice of ghost hunting, Interim Director Mary Ellen Hammock tells me that cameras and tape recorders are the most useful tools in tracking ghosts, as they don't usually manifest themselves in forms detectable to the human eye or ear.
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