Thursday night brought a crisp, full moon and clear, inky skies.

In the barn owned by Dan Dailey of Huntington Township, Dailey's family and a few friends were crowded around the newly unearthed gravesite of Hattie Adele Pratt.

Hattie died at the age of 3 in 1862 and was the subject of Archibald Willard's painting, "Blue Girl." The location of her gravesite was unknown for years until Daily and his two coworkers inadvertently uncovered it while cleaning out the barn.

Family members offered a variety of opinions on the strange twist of fate that unearthed the site. Marge Dailey speculated that the girl wanted to be found after all these years; Dan Dailey said that it will be great marketing for his new business, Alpaca Underground Railroad; his co-worker, Greg McConaha, thought it’d make a great museum if more graves are uncovered.

But it was Dailey's son, 14-year-old Greg Dailey, who was most shaken by the grisly discovery.

"I've been telling them since we moved in that this place is haunted," Greg said of the 160-year-old house and its 42-acre property. "This just shows that I'm right. I told them."

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