GHOST SEEK IN COPSE.

Shannon News, 14 March 1924, Page 3

GHOST SEEK IN COPSE.

A HAMPSHIRE SENSATION.

A sensation has been caused in the villages of Elms worth and Havant (Hants) by a weird. stoTy of the appearance of a grfbst on the main Portsmouth-Chichester road, where it passes through a copse known as "Bore Block Dell."

Many people claim to have seen this apparition, and curious folk have visited the spot on various niffhls, hoping to. discover something about the strange phenomenon. A young man of Enisworth, Frank Hartly, said ho was certain that he saw the ghost about 3 0 o'clock one Sunday night. "Two cyclists', he declared in an interview, 'dismounted in front of me, and ono of them exclaimed. 'Good Heavens! Look at that!' "In the middle of the Toad, was the vapoury outline of a tall man, standing erect, with his hands held closely by his sides.

"A, motor-car was approaching, and I was startled to see the ghostly form gradually accentuated in the rays of the brilliant' headlights. Motionless it stood there. The car seemed to pass right through the object, and the apparition was seen no more." The spectre also terrified an Emsworth lady rt who asserts unhesitatingly that she "was 'alonewith her dog, which barked in a frightened manner and crouched close to her. Her account of the phenomenon agrees with that of Hartly. She hurried home in great alarm. Local history has it that Uere Block Dell was frequented by smugglers many years ago and that the ghost of a man murdered there still haunts the wood. ' ■- , (J ;. ;v .'.. ( u.!.'. 1