49- HIDDEN NOTES LONG, LONG AGO....!

As a sociologist who is in like with customs and tales, found one recently about handwritten notes stuffed and hidden away in secret places in old cabinets and writine desks...and especially in crevices in walls and eaves upstairs in 19th century houses and publick ordinaries or taverns. 20th century farmhouses and two-story homes in small towns across America are beginning to be discovered with notes and letters hidden about. The custom seemed to have been a very private one for decades and decades. Notes were hidden away describing strange occurrances that may have occurred, like a ghostly figure. Most often, someone had met an untimely demise and family members or new owners over the years quietly kept the stories hidden, often describing in detail down on paper what they saw and felt. Maybe they felt, without conferring with others in a wide area and time, that people back then simply would not believe their story, being so far out of the ordinary and often strange.
There was a neat TV movie a handful of years ago, with a writing desk and its hidden storage areas. Two, from different centuries, were able to leave letters to each other in the desk's secret slot. At this point, I cannot conjure up the title but will. Ring a bell for a reader here?
Some of you remember the film "The Lake House" in 2006, Kate (Sandra Bullock as a doctor) and Alex (Keanu Reeves as an architect) begin to exchange letters, developing a romance, BUT the times do not allow them to actually meet, with trying to figure out how to unravel the mystery to do just that. And do they, uh, meet? By the way, the notes were transported via a...a mailbox out front. And the dog involved in the plot seemed to sense whenever the mailbox contained a note!
Soon...hauntings and campfire tales, oh no, that could get downright scary, based on real stories and tales. Do YOU have a tale to tell? Have YOU ever heard a tale that made YOU shiver with a bit of fright up and down your bod? Will share the time something followed me behind on a trail in a gorge while trout fishing...long twitching tail...oh yes.