MASTERTON SPOOKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 5 December 1907, Page 4

MASTERTON SPOOKS.

Some Uncanny Experiances.

It would be interesting to know whether some supernatural agency is ot work in the vicinity of the Waipoua bridges says the Masterton Times, as since the account of the apparition which was reported by us on Thursday to have appeared to two ladies, some other rumours of like nature have floated around. The ladies’ experience has just recalled to another lady resident an adventure which befell her and a friend when crossing the bridge some time ago. She avers that while she was crossing one of the bridges in company with a lady friend they saw a woman dressed in a white costume coming towards them. At first they thought the approaching figure was an ordinary natural being, but when it glided between one of them and the fence, through a space much too narrow for a physical body of such proportions to pass, the became alarmed and one of them nearly fainted with fright. They both declared that thej' distinctly heard the lustling of the dress as the apparition passed. Tast evening a young lady was on her way home to l,ansdowne, and after passing over the farther bridge from town she saw mysterious lights in the direction of the natural clump of bush below the bank on the left side of the road. She immediately returned to town, being naturally somewhat scared, and declined to proceed homeward until she was accompanied by a protector. There are others who declare they have at night seen unusual sights at different times of late in the same vicinity and been seized simultaneously with an indefinable sense of something mysterious being at hand. Those who have been alarmed by such happenings have invariably been ladies, and it has been suggested that nervous temperaments may have magnified some trifling incident capable of physical explanation into an occult visitation.

In the event of any practical joker being responsible for “ mystic ” phenomena, it may be as well to mention that the police are cognisant of the matter, and are taking steps to investigate matters, as opportunity offers.