The Forester Cemetery Seance Scam of June 1988

I found this letter today in the book Shingle Shavers and Berry Pickers by Oliver Raymond that I bought at the Volunteers of America Thrift Store in Westland. A shocking find for myself especially after yesterday coming across an old elementary school cookbook from the school I attended with cover art by my girlfriend at the time. Had I not also noticed a Fairy Ring or Witch's Circle in my backyard yesterday also I might think that I am a bit mystical myself, but to my credit I am at least not given to such fancy. I just wish that the enclosed paper mentioned at the end of the letter was included and that the author had signed the missive. Now, I will forever be forced to entertain the possibility that this might have been Gundella's book since she was from the part of the state covered in this book.

Here's the typed out text for web searches:

Dear Gundella: 

If you had verified and checked your sources before you put up your good reputation, you would have found:

County records show Minnie Quay died in 1876 at age 16, a victim of an outbreak of influenza. The story about her ghost roaming the cemetery is the creation of William Egbert Clugston, owner of the Forester Inn and Campground. The Haunted Opera House was never an opera house, and never haunted - another Clugston creation.

When Mary Quay Shaw was bedridden and dying in the Quay House, she was constantly being annoyed by Clugston and his drunks from the Forester Inn across the street. The harassment grew worse, and because she dared to file complaints with the police, Clugston vowed to dance on her grave. Being a chicken to do it alone, Ole' Egbert hired Gundella to invade the Quay Family gravesite.

Assemblies at cemeteries by persons other than family members, require written permission from the family of the gravesite itself, and a permit from the County prosecutor, and the posting of a Peace Bond.

Unless shorter hours are posted, cemeteries are closed to visitors from sundown to sunup. State statute imposes a (minimum) $50 fine per person, per occurrence for trespassing.

Egbert is "selling" passes to the seance to customers who will run up a minimum bar bill. Expect about 500 additional drunks at your seance, and countless curiosity seekers who will storm the cemetery. Do you have the security, how will you keep them out? You don't even have a written contract, with Clugston or anyone.

See pages 1, 4 and 14 of the enclosed paper. 

Good Luck!