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      "description": "The unnamed schoolhouse’s architect, whom the narrator credits with its peculiar door and window fastenings."
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      "description": "A large, blue-bearded Dutchman whose story claims he nearly captured a British frigate with a cannon that burst."
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      "description": "An unnamed ghost said to haunt the glen at Raven Rock, where she perished in the snow, and to shriek before winter storms."
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