Haunting abolitionist

Does the ghost of abolitionist Frederick Douglass haunt his Rochester, N.Y., home? Former tenants believe so. From The Associated Press:

The Dukes rented out the top floor until the mid-1980s. Around 1986, Lee Dukes began encountering a well-dressed figure in a corner of their bedroom, his wife recalled. "He described a black guy with gray hair, a gray beard and a top hat" who was "always busy with his head down, constantly writing, always flipping pages and stuff," she recalled. While she scoffed at his stories, she was intrigued enough to take out a library book on Douglass. "When I showed him a picture and asked, `You know who this is?'--I knew he didn't know him, he didn't have a high school education or do a lot of reading--he got excited and said, `That's him! That's the guy!"'

Douglass's ghost is probably writing angry letters right now to the pro-lynching GOP senators.