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The Legend of Brents Road and Other Ghost Stories

© Dorothy Hill

There's a lonely gravel road that runs through the southern corner where Marshall and Benton Counties meet. People live at either end of the road but no one lives along the middle stretch. Brents Road is a lonely road, and, according to legend, it is also a haunted road.

In the early part of the 1900's there was a man named Brince (someone changed the spelling of the road at some point) who owned a great deal of land in that middle area. There were several tenants who lived and worked on his land. Old man Brince was not a nice man at all. He was very cruel to his wife and his tenants going as far as to even beat a few who dared to cross him. It was rumored that some accidental deaths were not really accidents but the covered up handiwork of Brince. When the old man rode his horse to Potts Camp, he was not a welcomed sight. He was very hard to deal with.

No one remembers how he died. Some say it was pneumonia. Others say he drank himself to death. Then there are those who say it was just pure meanness that finally did him in. But death did not put an end to the wickedness of old man Brince for, according to the legend, his ghost still rides the road on horseback being ugly to anyone it meets.

Mississippi is full of ghost stories. A good book to read is Kathryn Tucker Windham's 13 MISSISSIPPI GHOSTS AND JEFFREY. There are also plenty of sites on the internet that tell of ghosts in Mississippi. While some are good and some are not, they all cause you to pause and wonder.

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