A True Ghost Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 3

A True Ghost Story.

The following is a ghost story with much more foundation in fact than euoh yarns usually possess :—: — On the road leading from Egremont, Mass , to Mt. Everett is a house which was once the home of a sea captain who was murdered by the insubordinate crew of his ship. After that event, on stormy nightß, his wife and daughter used to be disturbed by sounds of creaking cordage, flapping sails, clanking chains, and other nautical sounds, which seemed to come from the garret. Above all the rest of the noise and turmoil whoever was downstairs could hear angry voices, groans, and cries for help. A great many people used to gather in the house on atorcny nights to hear tbe unaccountable and alarming racket in the garret, but no one ever had enough courage to open the garret door and try to solve the mystery on such occasions. "At length the widow and her daughter abandoned the house, the doors and windows of which weve boarded up. All this took place fifty years ago, and but few who have seen the ruined houte know its singular history. A short time ago a Mrs Melius, a gtand daughter of the old captain, living in Lowell, received a letter from a sailor from a South American port, who said that he was on the ship with her grandfather on the night when the latter was killed ; he §aid that the captain wanted him to go to Egremont and tell his wife and daughter that he had been murdered, and that enough money had been buried in one corner of the cellar to keep them in comfort all the rest of their lives, The sailor went to Egremont as he had promised, but resolved to have the money in the cellar for himself. By an ingenious arrangement of chaiusiand of other available material, he originated and kept up th** supposed supernatural tumult which had driven the captain's widow and daughter from their home He then made a successful search for the money, which he took with him to Peru. Remorse and the probability of immediate death induced him to write the letter of .explanation to the granddaughter. .