Children line up and wait to participate in the annual After-Dark Rubber Duck Hunt Thursday at Historic Jefferson College. (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)

Khloe Marie Chatman, 2, sorts through the four rubber ducks she found at the hunt. (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)

(Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)

Abby Thorpe, 7, holds up a clear duck she found at hunt. (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)

Megan Blanchard holds her daughter Aubri Blanchard, 5, while listening to ghost stories. Seven days after Aubri was born Megan’s father died. She said since his death she and her family have been finding rubber ducks at random. “We would be at a parade and someone would throw us a rubber duck, or going to the zoo and a rubber duck would be on the ground in front of us, “ she said. “One time we stopped at a gas station with nothing else around, inside there was a claw machine filled with only rubber ducks.” (Nicole Hester / The Natchez Democrat)