At 5 p.m., the floodlight comes  on to light up the silo inside the Dairy Barn. It faces the farmhouse, and lights up the barn inside. It highlights the history of the barn, built before the house which was constructed in 1861. There were cows and other animals there, and a shaman came to the farm and did a ghost walk, and she stopped at the silo and shivered, and told me she believes a man in a black suit committed suicide in that silo, where he hung himself. She came back to light some sage and chant, and all of the animals – Rose, the donkeys, the chickens and barn cats – got skittish and then disappeared.

Later, we found a story from the Granville Sentinel from 1860  that reported that some town residents came to the church (now an abandoned garage) to hear a runaway slave on his way to Canada tell of the horrors of slavery in the South, and the townspeople were stunned, and a young man, said the paper, was so despondent at these stories that he hung himself in a nearby barn, inside of a silo. The young man was deeply troubled, said the Sentinel. The paper didn’t say in which barn he hung himself.

But the barn is down the hill and a few houses to the left.

When my friend Mary Kellogg brought her friends to the barn to visit, one of them stopped and said she had a feeling there were some dark spirits in the silo. Perhaps so.