Ghost in the Graveyard Rockford LbNA #54076 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 20, 2010 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Rockford |
| County: | Winnebago |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | LivingWater  |
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| Found by: | Pitties |
| Last found: | Apr 30, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFaaa |
| Last edited: | Jun 20, 2010 |
This letterbox is not haunted or wicked … it is named after the game “Ghost in the Graveyard” that my son loves to play. (In fact, this letterbox was his idea and he even picked out the stamp!) "Ghost in the Graveyard" is an outdoor group game where everyone tries to make it through the "Graveyard" before the "Ghost" tags you. Find some friends to play with. The more people you can round up, the better. Designate one area in the neighborhood for the playing field. You will need a home base on which everyone can stand or all touch at the same time such as a large tree, front porch, or back patio. Choose one person to be the "ghost." Have everyone but the ghost stand at the home base while the ghost runs off to hide somewhere outside. Chant slowly as a group, "One o'clock... two o'clock... three o'clock..." and so on, up to twelve o'clock. Then shout, "Midnight! I hope I don't see the ghost tonight!" (Alternatively, "Starlight, star bright, I hope to see a ghost tonight!") Leave the home base and search for the ghost in the yard. The ghost's job is to jump out, surprise, and tag a player. When anyone encounters the ghost they should yell, "Ghost in the graveyard!" and try to run away. When the ghost catches someone, they become a ghost too. Anyone who is able to run back to home base is safe. Have all the people who were caught go and hide with (or close to) the original ghost. The people on the home base start again with the chant, "One o'clock... two o'clock...” Continue the game like this until everyone is caught. The last person caught becomes the ghost for the next round.
Appropriately, this letterbox has been placed in a cemetery. The cemetery we selected is in our hometown of Rockford, Illinois, and is more than 140 years old. This cemetery gets its name from the large number of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants who came to Rockford from the mid-1800’s into the early 1900’s. It can be found on the Northeast corner of the intersection that used to be called “Rural Oaks”— the intersection of Rural Street, Prospect Street, and Guilford Road (this is where Guilford Road begins in Rockford on its west end).
From this intersection, take Guilford Road Northeast (the only direction you can) until you get to the “new” main entrance (the old main entrance is almost always chained shut). Turn left (North) into the cemetery and almost immediately make certain you make the "right" choice on which road you take. Take this road all the way to the back of the cemetery. In the Northeast corner of the cemetery is a “gazebo.” Park along the curb, and walk to it using the right (east) sidewalk cut. Almost immediately there is a walkway going to the right. Take this walkway 10 steps to a bench that faces east and is dedicated to Eva Marie Starnes. If you sit on the bench you will see a row of evergreen trees (spruce) between the bench and the fence by Sinnissippi Golf Course. Go behind these trees by going around the right (south) side of them and then go north along the fence behind them to the 5th tree from the south end. To find your prize you must lift its skirt (raise and look under its lower branches).
Appropriately, this letterbox has been placed in a cemetery. The cemetery we selected is in our hometown of Rockford, Illinois, and is more than 140 years old. This cemetery gets its name from the large number of Swedish and Norwegian immigrants who came to Rockford from the mid-1800’s into the early 1900’s. It can be found on the Northeast corner of the intersection that used to be called “Rural Oaks”— the intersection of Rural Street, Prospect Street, and Guilford Road (this is where Guilford Road begins in Rockford on its west end).
From this intersection, take Guilford Road Northeast (the only direction you can) until you get to the “new” main entrance (the old main entrance is almost always chained shut). Turn left (North) into the cemetery and almost immediately make certain you make the "right" choice on which road you take. Take this road all the way to the back of the cemetery. In the Northeast corner of the cemetery is a “gazebo.” Park along the curb, and walk to it using the right (east) sidewalk cut. Almost immediately there is a walkway going to the right. Take this walkway 10 steps to a bench that faces east and is dedicated to Eva Marie Starnes. If you sit on the bench you will see a row of evergreen trees (spruce) between the bench and the fence by Sinnissippi Golf Course. Go behind these trees by going around the right (south) side of them and then go north along the fence behind them to the 5th tree from the south end. To find your prize you must lift its skirt (raise and look under its lower branches).