RANSOM OF NOTE.(77 SQUARE SUNDAY)(Column)

Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | August 23, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: TOM ALESIA talesia@madison.com 608-252-6122

Christopher Ransom bolted awake in a panic. He felt immobile after having a nightmare about feeling the presence of another person in the bedroom of his Mineral Point home.

It was spring 2005. Ransom and his wife, Pia Gandt, lived in a Victorian home that served as a birthing house for pregnant women in the early 1900s. Before Ransom's nightmare, the home's previous owner had showed them photos of the stone-faced patients from its early incarnation.

As fate would have it, Ransom started writing a ...

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