Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1834-11-17
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Tg,e Of Narpel -Rumor, ~ta one OF her Il
Thousand tongues brought Is mysterious soI
Yesterday, OF mysterious lady, which 50 l
challenged credit, that We were iodheed 10 SEM
competent witness. IN the afternoon, I" pffa
more psuicular Information Oar Zen . attef Il
fplles, opportunity Of observation, has arm a H.
morning. ard communicates the following TACT
which we give without embellishments, as he rclae
them.
On Monday night oflast week TIC femlly Of Mr.
Joseph Barron, LIVING ia the township OF Wood
bridge about thruo miles from Railway, IN TIN
county. were alarmed, af.er they had retired, by
loud dumping against the house, Mr.. Il s FRS
impression was, that sumo person was attempting
10 break in bu, further observation soon undeesls-
ed him. The humping, however continued nj
short intervals until tho family became 50 alarmed,
thu, Mr.. B. called in some OF his nsigbbors, who
remained up with the family naHl daylight, when
the humping ceased
The next evening after ntsbinIl, the morse re.
commenced when It wos aseeflainod 10 oe mysierl
oo.,v connected with tho movements of a servant
girl in the family White S'f, about fourteen yoafs
Of age. When p ,ssng II window on the stars
for exomple, n sudden jar accompanied with an
explosive sound, broke pane Of ;sss the gil a.
the same moment bong seized win violent
spasn Tnis, OF course, yety much alarmed her,
md the phvsc,an CDR Drake was sent tor came,
and bed her The bleeding, no Vovef, produced no
spnarcot effect the noise stil continued before
at intervals, wherever The glfl went, each SCUM
producing more or less of sPnsni, and the phYsi
can, with the family, renamed up derns Tia
night AT daylight tho humping ceased aealn
On the third evening the same thing Wa repeated
commencing a liidn eaIer than before, md 50 eve
~ evening since, continuing each aish' until morn
ing, and commencing every evening little earlier
,hnn before, uni yesterday, when tho humping
began about twelve O'Clock al noon.
Tie CIRCUMSTANCES were soon generally spfrn
through the neishbophood md have produced 81
much excitement, thai the house has been filed md
.urronn1cd, from sunrise TO sunset every night Tor
nearly n week, Every imaginable means hove
been rcsotied 10 Ia otler to nnraycl thu phcnomc
non At ono time the glh would be removed lroW
one apartment 10 nnother, without effect Wbof
ever she was placed nj uncertain intervals, the sud
den thumping noise woLld be hcHtd IN the room
She was taken 10 n neighbours house thu same re
sui, followed. When carried out OF doors, how
ever, no noise is heard Dr. Drake, Who has hrel
constant in his attentions during the whole pes cd
occasion lily aid by other scientific observcr1 va
with us lns: evening for two hours when we wef
o litely allowed 10 make variety Of experiment.
with the girl in addition 10 those heretofore tried
1, satisfy ourselves that there IA no imposition 1t
the csc aud f possible to discover the secret ngen
OF the mystery.
The air was in an upper room with part of Ia
family when we reached The hous, The noise tdrl
yesembled that which would be produced by a pc
son violently humping the upper floor with til,
heal Of en axe five or six times 10 quick succession
inrring the house, ceasing few minutes, and thcr
rcsuming a. before. We were soon introduced IN
to the apartment, and pcruted to observe for our.
selves The girl Appeared TO be Ia ped ct health
cheerful, and fee from tho spasms telt a, first, an
entirely relieved from every thing like the fear .
spprehens on which she manifested Tor some days
The invisible NOISE however, continued TO ocsu
as before, though somewhat diminished IN ircq I'm
cy and sound while We were IN the room. In or
der to ascertain more satisfactorily that she dad no
produce il Voluntarily, ameos other experiment
we placed her on chair on blanket IN tho ctn
,re of the room bandagc Tho chair with cali,
fastening her feet on the front round and con
fning her hands together on her lap n
change, however, was produced the thnmp
ins continued rs before except that il was no
suite SO lou the noise resembling that who
would I've produced by stamping on the naor with
heavy heel Yet she did not move limb nor
muscle tn II We could discover. She remained
this posllipn long enough 10 satisfy all n the roo
TINT ihe gin exercised voluntarily no sort Of agenc
in p,o1ucins the noise 1t WAS observed that III
mise brcamc greater the father She was remove
from any other person We placed her in the doc
way Of a closet N the room, the door hcing uiar
ailo her to stand N the passage. In less than
minute the door flew open, as If violently struc
with mallei, accompanied with precisely such
noise as such thump would produce THIS WI
repeated several times with the SANE effect
short, in whatever position she was placed, whetl
er in or out of The room, similar results, varied
little, perhaps, by circumstances, were produce
There is certainly no deception IN lhe case Al
now fos conjecture. For ourselves we offer non
but among other njecturcs which have been su
gestcd by DR.. d. and others is that the phenomena
10 electrical.
THIS conjecture is supposed to be supported
iie fact that the noise is prevented oy the int
vtnion OF substances that are non conductors
for instance, when pillow was placed between b
person and the door in which she stood, no noise
effect whatever was discoverable. SO when s
gets upon feather bed and again if she lays
Length on the Aoor the humping appears to
near her head, which is very much affected AT
moment OF the rcrot, so much SO that she scream
on one such occasion she SAID it appeared as
some one was " Knocking her brains out"
The noise OF the reports may be heard n. Lei
100 yards from the house.
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