The following is a writing about the legend of the Hairy Women of Klipnocky.
Submitted by Ruth Bancroft
Around 75 years ago, a young couple lived up in Klipnocky with their 3 daughters. They were simple people. No simple minded, mind you. They just lived a very simple life on their little farm with none of the amenities that we all take for granted these days, so they did not have a telephone. One day, the parents decided to go to Arkport. They felt their daughters were old enough to stay home on their own for the day. Before they left, they gave the girls instructions on what to do in case someone came to rob the place or something bad happened. They told the girls they were to run right out the back door and stay hidden in the woods in a certain place they all knew until either their Mom or Dad came to get them.
When the parents were about half way to Arkport, there was a terrible accident and they were both killed. At the same time, a chimney fire had set their home ablaze. The 3 girls did just as they had been told-they ran out the back door and hid in the woods. The house had burned right down by the time anyone showed up and everyone thought the girls had died in the fire.
It wasn't too much time after that all happened when farmers would leave their lunch in a cool, shady spot on the edge of the woods while they were doing hay and when they went to eat it at noon, it would be gone. Then clothing started disappearing from clothes lines.
There is still an old timer in Canaseraga who can tell you how, when he was a kid, he had ridden along with his dad when he had to drive up through Klipnocky to check the roads in late Spring to see what would need to be repaired after the winter snow and spring rains. They ate lunch in the truck. He says he never liked the crust on a sandwich and if he had been at home with his mother, she would have made him eat it, but his dad said "What Mother doesn't know won't bother her." He threw the crust out the window. He said that no sooner had that crust hit the ground than some crazy looking girl with long, tangled hair that had leaves and burrs all knotted up in it came out of the woods, snatched up the crust and was gone, all in the blink of an eye.
Are those 3 poor girls still waiting in the woods for their parents to come for them? I don't know. But I have been hiking and camping in Klipnocky and I have heard other people talk about the woods up in Klipnocky. It's enough to make you wonder...
Submitted by Ruth Bancroft
Around 75 years ago, a young couple lived up in Klipnocky with their 3 daughters. They were simple people. No simple minded, mind you. They just lived a very simple life on their little farm with none of the amenities that we all take for granted these days, so they did not have a telephone. One day, the parents decided to go to Arkport. They felt their daughters were old enough to stay home on their own for the day. Before they left, they gave the girls instructions on what to do in case someone came to rob the place or something bad happened. They told the girls they were to run right out the back door and stay hidden in the woods in a certain place they all knew until either their Mom or Dad came to get them.
When the parents were about half way to Arkport, there was a terrible accident and they were both killed. At the same time, a chimney fire had set their home ablaze. The 3 girls did just as they had been told-they ran out the back door and hid in the woods. The house had burned right down by the time anyone showed up and everyone thought the girls had died in the fire.
It wasn't too much time after that all happened when farmers would leave their lunch in a cool, shady spot on the edge of the woods while they were doing hay and when they went to eat it at noon, it would be gone. Then clothing started disappearing from clothes lines.
There is still an old timer in Canaseraga who can tell you how, when he was a kid, he had ridden along with his dad when he had to drive up through Klipnocky to check the roads in late Spring to see what would need to be repaired after the winter snow and spring rains. They ate lunch in the truck. He says he never liked the crust on a sandwich and if he had been at home with his mother, she would have made him eat it, but his dad said "What Mother doesn't know won't bother her." He threw the crust out the window. He said that no sooner had that crust hit the ground than some crazy looking girl with long, tangled hair that had leaves and burrs all knotted up in it came out of the woods, snatched up the crust and was gone, all in the blink of an eye.
Are those 3 poor girls still waiting in the woods for their parents to come for them? I don't know. But I have been hiking and camping in Klipnocky and I have heard other people talk about the woods up in Klipnocky. It's enough to make you wonder...
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