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    (Left) Lewis McDaniel (below) Posey Rorer, the person responsible for forming the group called, The Carolina Buddies. (Photos courtesy of Kinney Rorrer)

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    looking over the upstairs bedroom when they heard the sound of a car coming up the drive. They felt a little awkward about being there in the cabin and didn't quite know what they should do. Hill went back down thestairs and peeked out of the sooty front window. He saw that the visitors were a young couple-a teenage boy and his girlfriend. While the two were getting out of their car, Hill and his friend decided they might as well have a little fun with the boy and girl. They agreed between themselves that just as the couple entered the cabin they would begin to make erie, scary sounds and make them think there were ghosts in the house. This should be good for quite a laugh, they thought.
    They expected the boy and girl to walk up to the house and enter together. For some reason, the boy hesitated and the girl reached the house first. She stood waiting in the doorway, not quite willing to enter without company.
    Hearing the sounds of footsteps on the front porch, Hill's friend believed the couple had entered the house. He drew a long breath and emitted one of the saddest, most horrible sounding moans imaginable. The young boy had come just close enough to the house to hear the sounds. He wheeled around and sprinted back to the car as fast as he could. He cranked it and had it in gear before his girlfriend could even reach it. She barely made it in the car before he had his wheels spinning and spitting out dust and gravel behind him. He whipped the car around and spun down the old bumpy drive and was gone.
    This wasn't exactly how Hill and his friend had imagined their joke would come off! As fast a they could, they ran out on the front porch and tried desperately to wave the couple down. They boy and girl never took even one glance back at the old Lawson cabin.
    Hill and his friend had no way of knowing who the two teenagers were or from where they had come. People still traveled great distances to see the Lawson home and Hill
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    had no way of knowing if these were local teens or if they had driven some distance.
    After it was all over, they really felt bad about what had happened. Obviously, they had terrified the couple. Even though it was a very funny sight to see the two of them ripping away from the Lawson house in horror, they realized that they could have literally caused one of them to die of fright or a heart attack. They could have wrecked their car in their haste to leave the area. Hill had expected that they would have the opportunity to let the couple know that a joke had been played on them, but he never saw either of them again.

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