The Face in the Courthouse Window

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There's an urban legend in Alabama of a face that appears in the window of the Pickens County Courthouse. Basically, the previous courthouse burned down, and as the new one was being set up, a mob accused a black man named Henry Wells of burning down the former one. Wells went up into the new court house while the mob surrounded it and told them that if they killed him, he would haunt them forever. At the moment he said that, lightning struck.  

The mob lynched Wells for his alleged crime, and ever since there have been reports of a ghostly face appearing in the courthouse window.  The story goes that no matter how many times it's replaced, the face always returns.

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