A TRUE GHOST STORY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1443, 29 December 1886, Page 3

A TRUE GHOST STORY.

The following Is a ghost story with much m ra foundation in fact than su:h yarns u ualiy possess ; On the road leading from Egremoat, Mass , U.S.A. to Mount Everett, is a luuse which was or.ca the home of a sea captain who was murdered by tho insubordinate crew of his ship. After that event, on stormy nights, hia wife and daughter used to be disturbed by aoti'ids of creaking cordage, flipping sails, clanking ct»n j , and uih.t nautical a >und*, which seemed to come from the garret Above all the rest of the noise and turmoil, whoever was downstairs c ui o hear angry vo ces, groans, and cries for hetp. A great many people used to gather in the house c-n ttinny nights thour the uuaco mutable and alarming racket in the gar-tt, nu' no one ever had enough courage to open the garret door ana try t > solve tha mystery on such occasion). At length tho widow and her daughter abandi ned tin house, th ■ window* aud doors of which were then boarded up.

All of this took placs fifty years ago, and but few who hare seen the ruined house know its singular history. A few days ago a Mrs Melius, a grand daughter of the old captain, living in Lowe 1, re c--ived a letter from a sailor fr, m a South American p rt, who s<ys that he was on the sb : p wt-h her grandfather >n the night when the latter was killed. He a-<ye that the c»ptaia wanted him to go to Egromont and tell his wife aid daughter that he had been murdered, and that enough money was bailed in one corner of t se cellar to keep them in comfort all the res' of their lives. The fail >r went to Egremont as he had promised, bu; resolved to have the money in the cellar for himself. By an ingenio a arrangement .of chains and other available material be originated and kept np the suproied supernatural tumu't which had dipvin the caj tiia'a widow and her dst-ghiar fiom their home. ide then made a successful search in the cellar for the money, which he took with him to Peru. Remorse and the prebsbility if immediate death iuduoad him to write this letter of explanation to Melius.