PHYSIC PUZZLE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11125, 7 February 1930, Page 3

PHYSIC PUZZLE

“GHOST GIRL” OF SWANSEA

A schoolgirl ot' twelve is balfliug investigators into physic phenomena Three times recently all the crockery ill her home has been broken n some • mysterious fashion while, sin has been practising piano exercises ;u another room. On another occasion her father’s pipe hew out ol lies mouth through a window.

Mysterious noises have been heard in various parts of the ninuse. Gtice the crying of a baby was beard issuing from the chimney ,pbme. The girl who is the centre of these strange occurences in Edith May, tlilo (laughter of Swansea tradesman, reports the “Sunday Chronicle” Manchester. So froirequeut and baffling have they become that she is known in'ilio district as “the ghost girl. Her father, Air. -May, toll me that the phenomena only seem to occur when she is playing the. piano. “I have been told by s|Niu i n-.i that lifer playing sets up certain vibrations which are •sympathetic to spirits,” lie said, “but whatever is the cause .it is certainly very mysterious and disturbing. “It has been suggested that Edith is a mischievous child w ho is herself responsible for the happenings, but when the crockery was broken m the kitchen her piano p*. ry.ng in the front room never stopped. 1 hat seems to clear her of any responsibility. “So bad have tilings Income that we have luid ip make her give up her practising for the rime being. Otherwise we look like being out of house and home,'” '

'Mr. "May said that -footsteps-were heard a,spending the stairs while the family was seated at supper. He rushed out with /I'-’ppker in Ins hand, but could see nothing; A little later tlie steps were {ward again. - A local- spiritualist held . a seance in the house, but'nothing occurred. Aleari-wjhile;... until ..the disturber of the peace 'is exorcised, the piano has been locked.