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Moonshiner, Part 1   Ex-moonshiner Newt Bruffett and his wife,
Alice at a well at one of their haunted homes.Springfield, Mo.
News & Leader, August 2, 1959, page 1 & 5 D.  Newt Bruffett is a
genuine Ozarks hillbilly.  He has had many thrilling and
harrowing adventures through his 70 years as a moonshiner, tie-
hacker, square-dance fiddler and farmer.  "But I ain't never
went through nothin' so down right awful as the two and a half
months me and my wife lived in that haunted house down by Table
Rock Dam," he'll tell you. "We had to move," his wife Alice cuts
in.  "We couldn't sleep for them hants.  I know folks say there
ain't no such things as ghosts -- but me and Newt knows
different.  It was terrible, them lights a-flashin', the grave
being dug under the floor, the guns a-shootin'.  And worst of
all was the ghost-cats and air-rats -- and them little puppies
always a-crying'"..."I've been to France and there and
everywhere...fought three battles in Germa