Ghosts of Bordentown

For several years I conducted a Ghost Walk for my business group, the Downtown Bordentown Association, as a fund raiser. At first there were only a few stories available, mine included. As time went on people came into my bookshop to tell me their stories. And so it grew.

Ghosts can be elusive creatures. One family can live in a house for a few generations and never have an inkling that they have a resident spirit. When the house is sold, another family moves in and wow! The new family is more psychically aware and see ghosts that have inhabited the house for a century.

History sets in Bordentown City like a shawl on an old woman's shoulders, starting before the Revolutionary War. People with passion that die unexpectantly often are too confused to go on to the next plane. They remain, in spirit form in the homes and lives they loved. Sometimes they attach themselves to a person.

You'll read about gentle ghosts, lost souls, broken hearts and just confused spirits. The tales of the supernatural in Bordentown City may give you a new vision of what life-after-life is, for some people.

A lifetime member of the Bordentown Historical Society and Thomas Paine Society of Bordentown, Arlene Bice has written 'Images of America' books. Her column is The Reading Corner in the Register-News, Princeton Packet Publ. She is a Regional Contact for the International Women Writers Guild, President of the Antiquarian Booksellers of NJ and owns a new & used book shop.