Jeffrey

Well, actually, I suppose Jeffers, not as active as he used to be. Now, Jeffers is something who lives in her house here in Selma about. And nobody's ever seen him go, can't swear he's a ghost. But I can't say how active he is because I'm gone so much. And I don't know what he does when I'm away from home, though often he goes with me. And I was over in Lagrange, Georgia. And there was some little episodes over there that I think he was involved in, like getting me locked out of my room while I was staying. Losing a few notes about stories I wanted to tell. Little pranks he likes to play. And one little girl told me she saw him now. I don't know whether that could be true or not. But I still hear him or something in the hole at night. Sometimes funnier she was moved from where I had put it. And when I was doing my income tax, he got very active.

There were just stuff that I needed that I knew where I had put it in at one day. And that made me a little bit angry. I don't often get angry with him, you understand? Because he got me off on a great idea. Well, a mission almost of preserving ghost tales. The fine old ghost tales from throughout the South. The true ghost tales where you can visit the sites where they happened. And the names of the people involved are accurate. The events surrounding the supernatural currents did take place. Well, the nice thing about ghost tales is you don't have to believe in ghost or enjoy a good ghost story. But it helps when the facts are there. It makes you wonder, it stretches out imagination. And I think that's what Jeffrey does. It helped me write six books of ghost stories. They've done right well through the years.

One of my favorite tales about it is that somebody asked my son Ben, who's the Tuscaloosa News, and that Benio Mother writes those crazy ghost stories, says, surely you don't believe in ghost. Ben says, well, they helped send three of us to college.