GHOSTS IN RESORTS.

Shannon News, 15 January 1924, Page 4

GHOSTS IN RESORTS.

Groat “Sain, a London oorrespondexi«t y yS a man tdoli a tomUJwa hnnse at the seaside, as he wished to spend the sumttief there on account S his Wife’s K&ith. Thfe house was • roomy and donble-tronted, bnt at the end of a fortnight the wife's nerves were worn to a frazzle and they were triad to return home. No one * saw but there wefe crashing onises, sounds of heavy bfehthihg ih the passages, and sounds all throught the night of someone i moving frdm room to room. One does not usually associate the sunshine and ozone of a seaside resort with ppooks, but this seemed like a case to the contrary. Weird happenings were reported from' a boarding house at Blackpoo which the superstitious insisted were genuine manifestations of the supernatural. But practical folks were inclined to- credit “unseen” boarders with a turh for practical joking. First queer Sounds were heard, and then strange handwriting; appeared on a screen and on a table both of which articles of furniture performed as graceful a dance as their rigid legs would allow. Spiritualists who appeared on the scene were hit by flying pepper-boxes. Bells rany mysteriously, and the hands of the clock had a habit of going round the wrong way. It was thought that a certain /boarder had a psychic influence, as the moment he returned to town the manifestations eeased. A vicar who took a certain locum job at the seaside for the regular clergyman, who had gone to Scotland with his wife, had a curious experience. The back garden went down t& the beach, and the newcomer lilted to stroll to the end of it late at night.

Leaving a low light burning in the study, he had been lounging and smoking for half an hour and then returned up the garden path. Judge of his surprise when •he saw the Hev. ——, whose place he was taking sitting, at the desk of the study, a pile Of books at his side. The sequel was singular. News came the next morning that the vicar and his wife had been in a railway accident and were both in hospital. PECULIAR MANIFESTATIONS. Certain places along the British coasts have their special and peculiar manifestations. There are, for instance, the spectral longships of the Solway Firth. The story is that in the old days two Danish searoyers, their long ships loaded with spoil,

put into the Firth for shelter. A squall came shieking from the sea and sank the ships at their moorings. Ever since, on the anniversary of their destruction, these two ships glide up Solway, and ‘rid Ideal man is bold enough to put to Sea when they are visible. There is a certain small town on a beautiful estuary on the south coast to which small coasting vessels go. One of these was, lost in a great storm a few years ago, and several families in the town mourned their relatives for lost. / Then, five months later, after another great storm, she Was seen coming up the river in the dusk. Many peo'ple declare they saw her, but she never arrived; she faded into mist. A story is told of the Needles, the famous headland of the Isle of Wright A fine ship was proceeding up the Channel in a dense fog. The captain had gone below, thinking his course was right, but a stranger came to him and told him to take soundings at once. Scarcely knowing what he did, he obeyed and foiind but seven fathoms beneath his keel. He tacked at ance, and, the fog lifting, found that had he proceeded when the “ghost” appeared he would have been wrecked on the Needles.