ALLOA GHOST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 660, 10 November 1909, Page 8

ALLOA GHOST.

■/ . HQIISE.; FIASCO. .> ; .! ■ AUoa correspondent writes '■■ as follows to '.the- Weekly, Scotsman" of September-2:—ln tho beginning of last-week the inmates of a house in Greenside Street,. Alloa, heard strange' noises proceeding, from'tho corner of a room which/overlooks, the.old cemctory. . The sounds resembled, rappings .and subdued - voices; 'and were- only, perceptible after midnight -The assistance of neighbours was to unrajel the mysterious, happenings? and those who were .courageous enough to undertake a Prolonged vigil in the haunted room had no difficulty m .corroborating and confirming the belief of the inmates of the house that the Weird, noises .were clearly supernatural. One excitable youth who passed a restless hour in thtv attempt to solve the mystery declared that ho,had observed ,an apparition of a human form, and; that on his approach the spectre incontinently vanished into space. Quick as wildfire the report' that a ghost had been seen in the haunted room-spread throughout the:.town, and for' the • next few '.nights the. house and its surroundings were visited by all the curious-minded and- superstitious members •oi the community. A/reporter endeavoured tp get" a glimpse of the supernatural, apparition, but although-closeted for several lours' in,the isolated apartment, the pressman confessed he neitbw. heard nor saw. anything FiOm Glasgow- also came: a 'doctor of medicine ' who, claiming to be a . learned exponent of spiritualism, presumed to be able to solve the mystery of the rappings and' the physical apparition. He likewise shut himself up in'< the haunted room for several hours, but beyond' the ( spirits of two sailors, which ho was feblo to up from the silent land adjoin-, ing; , here'iOTted'that he saw no supernatural spectre; "nof heard .sounds or noises of anv description. The inmates of the. house" however, ; continua to believo. ; that the room, is "possessed,"', and hotly resent: tho suggestion that tha ciitißO of all the mysterious iioises i may be traceable to the nocturnal operations of rats. The-latest development in the still un|!.solved mystery is-a post-card reproduction of fa weird apparition, which is claimed to bo the Alloa ghost, and which is being Bold as a memento of-the haunted house fiasco. - • .