STRANGE GHOSTLY DOINGS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 49, 28 February 1916, Page 2

STRANGE GHOSTLY DOINGS.

From Hornsey Rise —one of London's northern suburbs —comes the ghost story of the season. The haunted house is a detached one of ten rooms. Six people ?ive there —au elderly couple who have been in it for 25 years, a son about 30 years old, and two daughters. One of the daughters is a widow. '' On Monday morning,'' said this widow, "I was awakened at 4 o 'clock by loud knockings on the wall. Thej- went on for three hours. On Wednesday night and Thursday night there was more knocking. We knocked back. The number of knocks we gave was repeated. B\it one I knocked six times and only four knocks came back. On Sunday morning the knocking came to my bed. I felt a distinct push against the mattress from underneath. As I dressed I felt a hand gently clap my foot. Then it clasped my wist. It felt like a gloved hand. Then Teels of cotton began to tumble about. A box of matches jumped from the mantelpiece and knocked my foot as I was sitting in a chair. On Tuesday cloth-covered books began to fly about the room. My hairbrush jumped off the dressing-table on to tli3 bed. Pillows from underneath the bedclothes were flung about the floor. Our black cat jumped on the bed and lay down. Suddenly she 'meeowed,' and I saw her put her ears back as if frightened or hurt. She jumped down and out of the room. Lattely I got cross and called out loudly, 'Oh, go away for goodness' sake.' It stopped then for about 15 minutes,'' At the moment ther e was a loud crash downstairs. All the party went down. The mother of the hoiise said that was the seconr 1 + ime the steps had been thrown on to the floor.