Complex sentence: Jack Stump reports that he has seen a ghost in the woods called Soakes's Lonesome, named for a local family of moonshiners, and, one night, Ned himself sees a strange apparition and later finds a skeleton hidden deep within the woods.
Split into simpler sentences: Jack Stump reports that he has seen a ghost in Soakes's Lonesome, a local forest named for the family of moonshiners who live within. Ned sees a strange apparition one night, and later finds a skeleton hidden deep within the woods.