Ghosts spotted in Abbeville

If you see a few ghosts around Abbeville, don’t be scared.
The “Ghosts on the Bayou” are friendly.
Abbeville Main Street, along with the Abbeville Library and the Vermilion Tourist Commission, placed 20 ghosts at various spots around the downtown area.
The ghosts are in part to help promote the Abbeville Library’s annual Scare on the Square. The event is scheduled to take place next week.
“This will be the 20th Anniversary for that event,” Abbeville Main Street Manager Charlene Beckett said. “To help celebrate that, the Abbeville Main Street promotion committee came up with these little ghosts.
“Of course they are happy ghosts because ware a happy.”
They started appearing Monday morning.
“We don’t have all 20 of them up yet,” Beckett said.
The ghosts depict various people involved in the downtown area. For example, the ghost in front of Young Eye Clinic is a doctor. The ghost outside of Abbeville Mayor Mark Piazza’s office is the mayor ghost.
“We have a fireman at the main fire station,” Beckett said. “The Depot has an engineer. There is a chef at Dupuy’s. We have some random ones, too.
“We just tried to do different things and characters.”
It’s all in good fun.
“We just want people to be excited about them,” Beckett said. “It’s something that maybe the kids will find fun.”
And it may be the start of a new tradition.
“We are hoping that they will last for years to come,” Beckett said. “This can be something we can put out every year. We can maybe do some more if more people want to get involved.”
There has already been positive feedback.
“I have had people come up and tell me they like them,” Beckett said.
While the ghosts help create the feeling for Scare on the Square and Halloween, Main Street has also spread some fall cheer.
“We put hay stacks, Chrysanthemums and pumpkins at several of the businesses,” Beckett said. “We put out 35 bails of hay, 50 mums and more than 50 pumpkins. We want to give people a feeling of fall and create community pride.
“That is what this is all about.”