Ghost Stories of textas written by jo Anne Christensen, published by lom Pine Publishing.
The jury believed it sounded a whole lot like the movie Portugeist. In
nineteen eighty three, Sam and Judy Hanny decided to have a swimming pool installed
in the backyard of the Crosby home. What they were looking for was a
pleasant place to cool off on hot summer afternoons. What they found or human
remains. In the course of excavating the yard, the Handies discovered that their
home had been constructed atop on an abandoned nineteen twenties era cemetery. The find
was not only undeniably gruesome, it also led to numerous strange events that collectively
can only be described as a haunting. Not knowing where to turn for help,
the Handies eventually took an unconventional approach to solving their paranormal problem. They
decided to put their faith in the legal system ensue the developer of their property.
In the summer of nineteen eighty seven, jurors in a Houston court room
spent a week listening to the testimony from the Hansees and their neighbors. They
heard tales of ghostly apparitions that wandered the properties near where the remains had been
found. They learned that the Hanseies television set randomly turn on and off and
the middle of the night. They were told that Judy Hansen's shoes once disappeared
from her closet and mysteriously reappeared side by side next to one grave. Finally,
they were asked to find the Hansies deserving of two million dollars in compensation.
In the end, the jury decided in favor of Sam and Judy Hanny,
but suggested that their mental anguish had a price tag of only one hundred
and forty two thousand dollars. It would be interesting to know how they arrived
at that figure in a case so lacking in presidence.