(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following Country Editor article appeared in the June 23, 1993, issue of this newspaper by the late Publisher/Editor Sammy J. Franklin.) Afraid of the number 13? Of cats or bats? Does being alone – or riding in elevators – or picking up ordinary pins and needles – make you a little uneasy? And what about sounds in the night – or simply the unknown? In a nationwide poll of 1,500 respondents – including several writers skilled in making people afraid of the dark – the syndicated cable TV show, Dateline: USA, found that approximately 30 percent were frightened most by what they described simply as “the unknown” unseen things that go bump in the night, or the discovery that “something” that seemed normal, somehow, isn’t.