The Crib, another word for silo or granary, is also one of the newer additions to The Haunted Mill experience. Two brothers who grew up near The Crib in the fifties swear that this old building is also haunted. When I asked them about it they related the following story to me:

They were playing one day near the granary when they saw a small boy of six or seven enter into the abandoned silo. They quickly followed him into the crib to warn him of the dangers that were in the building. Many cattle and sheep strayed from the pasture surrounding the crib and into its bowels looking for food. These animals broke through the rotted floor and fell to their deaths; the brothers were afraid the same would happen to this boy.

They called to him through a crack in the door, but he just giggled and asked them to come in and look at his marble collection. They slid open the door just enough to see him start to climb the grain elevator. The brothers pursued him warning him of the dangers, but he kept going to the top. When the two brothers reached the top the boy was not there, only a small shoe box.

They were horrified because there was no where to go from that point except down 75 feet to the rotted floor below. They looked down to see if they could see him, but he wasn't there and there was no hole in that particular place in the floor. One brother, curious, opened the box, and inside it were old baseball cards and marbles.

The two promptly descended the ladder that was nailed to the side of the grain elevator and ran home. They never saw the boy or his box again, though they looked for both in the old granary for the next few weeks.

Strangely enough, though, the two brothers did start to find stray marbles everywhere. The marbles seemed to just "appear" on occasion in that field and around the crib from then on. The trick for you is to now enter The Crib without seeing your own apparition, and hope someone has re-enforced the rotting floors.