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| Year | Stories |
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| 1876 | 1 |
| 1877 | 1 |
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- The Ghostly Search for a Lost Sailor
When a sailor drowned at the mouth of the Columbia River in 1876, his grieving colleagues turned to a grim folk remedy to recover his body.