“The Pot of Gold”

Up in Milan, or near Milan, during the Civil War, there was a man who was supposed to have recruited young fellows up there to go and work in the woods in the United States. You heard that one? In return he was getting ten or twenty dollars per man. And, of course, money in those days was either in silver or gold, eh, there was no paper. So these fellows were got together and sent down to the States, supposedly to work in the woods, because the Americans were serving in the army. Once they got down here, they were drafted into the American army, and sent south to fight.

So this man made a considerable amount of money. And one night him and his wife were sitting in the house, and they had this money spread out on the table in the kitchen, and they were counting it. And he happened to look up, and out in the -- outside the window, there was a man standing in the uniform of a Civil War soldier. And he looked at him so hard that this fellow and his wife took fright, and she swept all the money into her apron and she run and dumped it into a pot — an iron pot that was there. And the next morning, he took this iron pot full of money into the woods and buried it.

And according to the story, it‘s still there today. And there have been people go to find this, but when they‘re finally getting close to where this pot is buried they‘re seized with such a fright that they can‘t go on. One man, apparently, was picked up by an unseen force and thrown twenty feet through the air or something, and broke a leg! Now, that‘s an old one. I think everyone‘s told that story.