No one in Maycomb country has ever seen or heard Boo Radley, so they are afraid of him. Boo Radley is a mystery to them. He is a ghost, there but hardly there. No one knows what he is really like, which makes the children’s fear of him unwarranted. The only things that the children know about Boo Radley are through rumours and gossip, also there is no evidence of the scary things people have said he has done. Rumours are rumours, they are usually untrue. People crave excitement and a bit of mystery so they make up insane stories about people who they don’t see or hear of often. Rumours are the only things the citizens of Maycomb country know about Boo Radley. Nothing more. “There was a rumour that [the Radley house] was haunted” (3 Lee). People
