# ..'bout a ghost from a wishin' well

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [June 5, 2000, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bout-a-ghost-from-a-wishin-well/21409 "2000-06-05T03:01:18Z")\
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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> For the record, I’ m certain that we discussed this before on the Board.

> [@"There'll be scary ghost stories" ?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therell-be-scary-ghost-stories/563637/7):
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> I just wanted to add another “Christmas Ghost Story” not yet mentioned (even in the older threads) – Dickens’ last Christmas Book is The Man Who Haunted Himself, a sort of retread Christmas Carol. (One year I read all of Dickens’ Christmas Books. Although I love the original Christmas Carol, it was sheer torture to work my way through the others. ) By the way, a related ghost question – In Gordon Lightfoot’s “If you could read my mind”, he talks about “an old time movie about a ghost from a wis…

> [@Songs With Factual Inaccuracies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-factual-inaccuracies/632650/4):
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> Gordon Lightfoot in “If You Could Read My Mind”… mentions an “old time movie, about a ghost from a wishing well”. (meaning something sad and gloomy) Unfortunately there are no old-time movies about ghosts in wishing wells. Someone looked this up and the only thing that comes close is a goofy Abbot & Costello movie that would hardly be the inspiration for the song. It’s too bad that there isn’t a real “ghost in a wishing well” movie. Someone should make one.

> [@Favorite movies featuring ghosts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/4):
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> Bud Abbott claimed this was one of his favorites because he got to do a lot of physical comedy, something he didn’t get enough of in most of the A&C movies. I think of this film when I hear that Gordon Lightfoot song If You Could Read my MInd, because it’s the only story I know of “about a ghost from a wishing well”

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