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'Haunted' courthouse's ghostly presence blamed on bug

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By Associated Press, August 13, 2004

CHESTERTOWN, Md. -- A security officer was bugged out when he saw what appeared to be ghost haunting Kent County Court House.

The suspect spirit turned out to be a bug, the security company says.

On July 29, for a little more than an hour, a security camera showed a round, translucent, white object that seemed to walk up and down a set of stairs inside the newer wing of the courthouse.

"I've seen it so many times, it's not funny," said Brooke Eyler, general manager of Atlantic Security, which installed the courthouse cameras. "It's definitely a bug."

But a self-proclaimed ''ghost investigator'' wants to have another look.

Beverly Lipsinger, president of the Maryland Ghost & Spirit Association, said the descriptions she's heard don't sound like a bug.

''It's a ghost,'' said Lipsinger. ''They don't want to believe, so they're coming up with something.''

Part of the courthouse dates to 1860, and the newer half was constructed in 1969 on top of a former cemetery. Some courthouse employees said the anomaly on the video confirmed what they believed that the courthouse is haunted.

Kent County Sheriff John Price IV said he is satisfied with the technical explanation.

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