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Ghostly vision conjures up American history

Theodosia Burr Alston, the daughter of controversial third U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, is thought to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina. For years, people on Bald Head Island have reported seeing the ghostly image of a woman in a purple dress walking the marshes and beaches. Could that lonely figure be Theodosia?