Ghost in the mansion
Given the Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas times, it is somehow appropriate that the spirit said to occupy the Victorian executive mansion here in Raleigh makes mischief during the holidays.
"Every year, that Christmas tree in the gentlemen's parlor falls," Gov. Mike Easley told reporters Wednesday. "I don't care what happens, it falls. And I think Gov. Fowle does not want that thing in here, and he's made it pretty clear."
Fowle is Gov. Daniel G. Fowle , the first chief executive to occupy the mansion who died there at age 60 in April 1891, four months after taking up residence.
Click here to listen to Easley talk about the ghost and his doings.
More background on Fowle and the mansion here and here.
More from Easley's year-end interviews coming later this week.
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