We earlier reported that Massachusetts was considering changing its Greylock displays to possibly more thoroughly tell the tale of the ghost on Bellow’s Pipe Trail on Greylock. This report says the ghost is that of a Union soldier. When he returned home from the Civil War his wife had married another. He headed up the trail to live as a hermit. His ghost is now seen always going up the mountain — never down. Here’s another more detailed report saying that he is reported to have been photographed twice. He usually haunts the lower sections of the trail and is most often seen in January.
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There’s alot of them on the old mt.greylock!
I’ve heard about a abandoned farhouse not far from the top.Some people say that’s it’s haunted by the ghost of “mysterius” footsteps,and I’m eager to viset
Interestingly, my dad knew Old Coot personally. As a boy, my dad spent his summer days hiking & playing on Mt Greylock, & in the winter he skiied the Thunderbolt with Greenie Guertin. When I was a child, we heard awful stories about a nasty Old Coot who hated everyone. However, my dad painted an entirely different picture of Old Coot as a pleasant,but seemingly beaten & sad man. My dad said Old Coot (my dad told me his real name, but I can’t remember), always said a pleasant “Hello” to everyone. As another interesting side note, my brother was married to a great great niece of Old Coot.
I take every tale of ghosts with a grain of salt, but me and a friend of mine were hiking that trail around ten years ago, and we both saw a man with odd looking clothes that did not look like any modern clothing.To me, he looked like a man wearing late 19th century clothes and wore an odd looking hat.I had a weird feeling about seing this man slowly hiking up the trail.It was near the moneybrook trail we saw him.He was looking right at us and we looked away for a few seconds and he was gone.When I saw him I felt as though something was greatly troubeling him and the hair on the back of my neck stood up.This man and the energy around the area was off,but he meant no harm by his look and body launguage.Years have gone by since and I knew nothing of the “Old Coot” legend until I started exploring ghosts of Massachusetts and Greylock came up.My jaw droped to the ground,and I think it was him.I am skeptical,but the whole thing was real.He just vanished in a matter of seconds.True story folks.