SPOONER — There was a buzz at the Spooner Memorial Library on a gloomy, snowy Thursday night, March 9. Of course it had to be a dark and stormy night — paranormal investigator and author Chad Lewis was back in town!
As the first snowflakes of a small storm began to fall, people took their seats in the library. Then more people came, and just kept coming. Standing-room-only. Lewis, famous worldwide, has become a Spooner favorite.
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