Ghosts at Clandon House.

Hastings Standard, Issue 52, 26 June 1896, Page 4

Ghosts at Clandon House.

According to the filobe, Lord Onslow has courteously but firmly declined to let the Marquis of Bute and the Psysehical Research Society investigate certain alleged .ghostly appearance's at his house at Clatidon. His lordship states that " he cannot allow a repetition of such nonsense. Adult members of my family sleep with loaded revolvers by their bedsides, with which they will not hesitate to shoot at any ghost who seeks to play tricks." Clandon house must be an excellent place not to live in just now. (ihosts as a rule are tolerable enough, but six-chambered revolvers, coupled with the injunction, " Do not hesitate to shoot," must occasionally murder sleep, ev_n if they did no greater harm. Here, if ever, there is excuse for retelling the tragic story of the young oftieer. who, professing himself unafraid of ghosts, retired to bed in a haunted room with a loaded revolver. A practical -joking friend abstracted tin- bullet from the charge, and in the dead of night entered the room in a sheet, and took his stand at the foot of the bed. The oftieer awoke, and bade him begone, and receiving no answer, threatened to shoot. No answer coming, he shot. The figure, unflinching, laughed, and made as though he extracted a bullet from his breast, and threw it on to the bed. The otlicer sank back motionless. When the joker, basing had bis fun, would have explained the jest, he found a dead man. The fright—the belief that his visitor really was of another world —had killed him.