In September of 1970, the McCombs made a discovery that they believed might be the clue to the curious and haunting events in their house. While tearing out an old partition, they found a small mummified foot hidden in the wall. They sent it to a Boston laboratory, where it was identified as a child's foot that had been amputated sometime in the early 1900s. Research into the house's history disclosed that it had once been owned by a physician. The McCombs believed that it had once been owned by a physician. The McCombs believed that this foot was from one of his young patients. In those times, it was not uncommon for people to preserve amputated limbs so they could later be buried together with the bodies. Was the ghostly inhabitant of their home a poor crippled child in search of its lost limb? The McCombs believe so.

After the foot was discovered, the uncanny occurrences at the McComb residence seemed to increase. On that very night, Bill McComb was awakened by the sound of the shutters outside his bedroom window opening. They were then hurled apart and banged loudly against the outside of the house. They shutters had been held in place by two separate sets of eye hook locks, which Bill was certain he had securely fastened before going to bed that night.

The senior McCombs were aural witnesses to another event. The children were all at school and Mr. McComb was asleep in his bedroom. Mrs. McComb, awake and in the same room, heard the sound of a foot and cane tapping loudly on the floor upstairs. The noise was so pronounced that it woke Mr. McComb. This noise, as had many of the other ghostly manifestations, such as the sound of the music box, sounded as if it had been coming from Jean's room. The young girl by this time had been sleeping downstairs in the living room most nights because of all the unexplained activity that seemed to center in her room. Perhaps the most telling evidence of this was when some members of the family moved a large trunk in Jean's room. Beneath the trunk, imprinted in the dust, was the image of a bare right foot. The impression didn't match any family member's foot.

The McCombs finally sold the house, and the new owners don't believe in ghosts. Neither did the McCombs, however, until they moved into the Buzzel house. Since there hasn't been any recent supernatural activity there, perhaps the ghost has found what it was looking for and is now at last at peace.