THE "GHOST" LAMP.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1982, 12 February 1914, Page 2

THE "GHOST" LAMP.

■, ■ , ---»- —i— GB-EBPY STORY FROM .;. CARTERTON. ,:Tho' Carterton "News" tells the following straws' ' story:—"There is a. mysterious light "With tip on the cliffs at White Rook, Lower Valley, and on pitch .dark, stormy nights, when, the wind Ireivls mournfully,, this ' beacon , flickers, burns steadily, nud goes, out, comtts again, and is gone. The ..most exhaustive searches -in. dayliglit reveal nolliing— Ho cover or caves in ■ which aityono might hide, and the cliff _wh<src tiio light shines is. very difficult to climb. A, well-known man i,ii the Valley watched for the light one night and essayed to discover .w'lat it was. He was a big man, with plowty_ of courage, and utterly unsuperstitious (or thought'he was). There wefe soveral other men with liitn, but having an awe of tho uncanny light, -jiot one of them would accompany him, 'saying that the light was a "ghost' lamp, • and they would not go' near it for a fortune. Tho vcirtnrcsoHU! fflftn went alone, and ft luUi-hour later he came back in a teiotts haste, slammed shut tho ttoor of the wha.ro wliere the other men were, and sank white and exhausted on the floor. What he; saw ho could not (or would not, for fear of ridicule) explain ; but it is a fact, nevertheless, that he will not pass the place now anywhere . near the midnight hour on a dadcand Stormy night."