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Reprinted the September 2000 edition



Staff Reporter Sam Golden interviews John Adamsky's cousin and long-time neighbor Chester "Chet" Bogdanovich about his most frightening experience with John's curse.

Sam Golden: Thank you for joining me today.

Chet Bogdonovich: You're welcome. I liked how you presented John's story and I wanted to add my story too, hopefully someone will be able to figure out what happened to John and maybe save him.

SG: We never doubted your cousin. Too many strange things have happened to him to be coincidence.

CB: You're telling me. And you haven't heard some of the worst of it.

SG: Would you mind telling me and the readers what you've seen?

CB: Well you already know about that night when we think he got cursed by that lady. She must be haunting him or something.

SG: No one really knows what happened to her after a while. She just disappeared, so I'd say that's a possibility.

CB: It's definitely a possibility. So, anyways, after a few years, after we both got hitched, me and John got houses right next door to each other. The kids were always running between backyards, we shared a garden, and holidays and stuff our wives would cook together.

There was one summer where me and John were playing outside with the kids. His dog, Max, broke his leash and ran away. Me, John, and Mikey went looking for the dog while the other kids went inside for dinner.

SG: Then what happened?

CB: Poor Max. We couldn't stop him in time, and he must've got hit by a car. Poor thing was lying there in a pool of blood. Mikey started to cry.

SG: Poor Michael, too.

CB: Yeah, that mutt was his best friend. So anyways, Mikey starts crying, and I look down, and I would SWEAR that the dog's eye blinked. Mikey sees it too, and he stops crying and goes up to the dog to look closer. He bends toward Max and then Max gets up and lunges at him!

Now, something isn't right, because Max is missing an eye, his ribs are all smashed in, one leg's got a bone sticking out, and there's all that blood. The damn dog should be dead three times over, 'cept it's not.

SG: Then what?

CB: Damn mutt goes for Mikey's neck! John scoops Mikey up just in time, and the dog starts biting at John's leg. Thank God it was a small thing or else it could have done damage to John. Mutt woulda killed Mikey, though, if it got the chance.

SG: Did you see anything else?

CB: Funny you should mention that. I happened to glance into the woods, and I see this shadow, looks like a woman with crazy curly hair. One second, I notice her in the woods. The next, the dog drops on the ground, dead, and the woman just disappeared.

I know she's a ghost, and she was haunting John for that night when he hit her. It's all that ghost lady doing it to him, and he can't get away from her.

Editor's Note: Norma gave us this statement in 2002, but it was never published until this point.



I don't know if it has to do with the curse, but it was really strange. After Max died, I went to the pet shop for a bird. Since it's in a cage all the time, it can't get out, and even if it did, it wouldn't get hit by a car. The kids were getting ready to go back to school, so I was alone most of the time, and I thought a songbird would be good company. Not a pest, but still something to talk to. I named him Peaches. It's a good name for a bird, I thought.

It was mid-September, and I had the bird for about three weeks. I had good news to tell John. I was having another baby! So when he came home that night, I was very excited. When he got home, I started to tell him the happy news.

Then the strangest thing happened. Peaches exploded, as if he had eaten a stick of dynamite!

I never heard of birds exploding, but I thought that this might have something to do with the ghost story you are investigating. Poor Peaches.

Looking at events throughout John Adamsky's life, there is a high probability of supernatural influences. While our resident psychic, Lisa Locklear, has not found any spirits in his home, we also know that there are no such thing as coincidences.

The best that we can guess is that Mrs. Stella Blake passed away not long after the accident. No one has reported seeing her after 1946. There are no death records, but Blake would be even older than Adamsky if she were still alive, and we have no reason to suspect that she is. We believe that her ghost haunted Adamsky through his final days, and probably triggered his fear of Sarah Callahan.

While this theory does not fully explain all of the events that happened, a haunting is the only thing that would cover the incidents occurring over a long time period, especially since nothing has happened to any of his family members after his death.

If we learn anything new, we will of course inform you, dear reader. For now, may the souls of John and Norma Adamsky and Stella Blake rest in peace.

On Monday, August 8th, the groundskeeper at Forest Green Park Cemetery noticed damage to the Blakes' gravestone. It is undetermined if the initial damage was caused by the lightning storm on Saturday, August 6th, or if it was caused by vandals.

The right side of the tombstone, bearing the name of Stella Blake, was split off of the rest of the gravestone. The break is clean, with no rubble in the surrounding area. On the broken piece, along the split, the word "HARIASA" appears to have been burned into the rock.

It seems that there is more yet to the curious cursed lives of Stella Blake and John Adamsky.