A Modern Ghost Story.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4396, 5 February 1883, Page 4

A Modern Ghost Story.

A most circumstantial ghost story whiekinsy interest the Psychical Society, is disturbing the mind of New York. The editor of "the New York World vouches for the good faith of his informant—a professional man of high repute. The house is a new one, and is let out in flats. The following are a few of the manifestations as tola by an eye-witness who went sceptical, but soon found that " something more than ordinary was up." First of all there was much knocking at the front door. It was watched, open and dosed, before and behind, but the knocks still came, always in four strokes sounding like blows struck with billets of wood. Then came bell-ringings in all parts of the bouse. Tappings were heard on the glass of the windows, the coats of the boarders fell down from (he hat-rack, each falling a. yard apart. The plush cover of a round table standing in the hall gracefully floated On to the"floor. A clothes prop waTKurled over the top of a portiere; the walking sticks standing in the hall were flung up indifferentdirections, and before the scared residents had recovered, a leaf from an oak dining«table was hoi-led through the hall for twenty feet, striking the wall and coming to the ground with a fearful orash. Another table took a series of somersaults. Such violent "goings-on" bad so bad an effect upon some of the family that they began to think of retiring, when a frightful shriek echoed throughout the whole dwelling, piercing, and evidently coming from no human throat, followed' by " soft, insinuating " whißtles. In the evening "it" tried a few notes in arpeggio, and was success • ful in keeping time and tune with the piano. The tone of the whistle was sometimes that of a fog-horn; at other times sounding like the " blowing in the neck of a bottle." All this is said to be a "plain truthful statement of facts," substantiated by five witnesses. Bevies of policemen hare searched in vain, and a curious English detective has been baffled.