Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-05-04
OLD SERIES VOL. 10, NO. ~,

He retired, with the family, soon aftef ten
o'clock, and just as he was getting into bed
he heard loud claitef and scream. Slips
ping on portion Of his clothing and running
into the hall he found it came from the
young lady's room. He called to her TO know
what was the matter. She told him the
noise was in the closets in her room, and
requested him 10 come in. He went in, the
noise and screaming being continued at inI
tcryals. The young lady was in bed and the
closet door shut. A light was burning in that
as also in other rooms of The house. The
noise seemed 10 be a series of knocks upon
the door, as though with PERSONS knuckles
from the inside, succeeded by blow like
kick against the bottom of the door. He
could distinctly see the door vibrate as he
ran TO it. On opening it nothing likely to
produce such noise was TO be found
| The chamber spoken of was located simi.
lar 10 the usual second story hall bedrooms
in Our city dwellings,. The door 10 the hall
was locked. After his unsatisfactory seatch
in the closet the gentleman stationed himself
in the doorway leading TO the large chamber;
the door being wide open, and the door from
that chamber 10 the hall being shut tight,
The scream had ceased, and the knocking
in the closet stopped Presently the door
from the hall TO the large chamber was
knocked upon in similar manner 10 that
of the closet from the side hall-a success
sion OF raps and then kick near the bottom.
He went 10 it, and taking the knob in his
hand, awaited 4 repetition Of the knock it
came, and opening the door instantly, (thers
beng light also in the hall, he saw
nothing. He was more Disconnected than
before.
Considerably amazed al his discomfittre,
but more determined than ever to ascertain
its origin, he again took his position in the
doorway The knocking ceased, and he
was on the point of retiring again when he
distinctly saw the broken leg of stand
which had been lying on bureau in the
young lady's room, fly, as it were, across the
room and strike the window, breaking two
panes of glass and then falling 10 the floor.
On being made acquainted with this, the rio.
I NAIS' NdiI'C III " doSISt SSutItIuuu III GU
vering the broken windows, on account of
the cold air. with blanket; and while do
! ing so, he saw hair brush which had also
| been upon the bureau, coming towards her
and finally strike upon her head. All this
time the young lady remained in the bed,
and not less than siX feet from the bureau.
Having seen, or fancied he had seen, the
middle OF three small drawers in the top Of
the bureau move in and out, the gentleman
took it out and examined it thoroughly Soon
after a cessation Of these things occilrreu; he
left the loom, but hardly had he done so
when, on hearing another noise, and break
ing OF wood, he ran back and found pieces
of the little drawer, previously examined by
him, falling upon the floor from the bed; and
the front piece of it falling from the window,
where pane of glass had evidently been
broken by it. The occurrence, whatever it
was, frightened the young lady so that she
had left her bed, and was running into her
parents room. She afterwards stated that
the drawer had beaten itself, or been beaten,
against the headboard of her bed; until it
was completely broken in pieces and the in:
dentalions in the headboari and the scattered
fragments were conclusive proof that such
was the fact.
Shortly after this the chamber occupied by
the parents became the scene Of knockings
similar TO those which have been described
as having occurred al Rochester. They SEEM
| ol 70, ~, h., III IF ba haI
The gentleman was called in there and, with
the closest scrutiny he could make, was fair
ly bothered. AT his request the occupants
of the bed moved as far from the head-board
as possible but still he heard the gentle rap,
rap, rap, now on this side and now on that;
and again directly under his nose. Having
studied the accounts of the Rochester knocks
ings he set about endeavoring TO open a com-
munication with the spirit in. the way pur:
sued al that place. In this he was, after
spending considerable time, partially success
lul The revelations made were, however,
strictly of family nature, and for their bene-
fit, and among them many by-gone facts sta
ted and also some things or falsty of which
the lapse of a short time will determine.
The next day more stuffed figures were
found in another room and several of the
neighbors were called in TO look at them.
While there, one of those present. gentle-
man, received blow from the top of can
dlestick, on the back part of his head, in a
way which could not be explained by him
self or any one else. Subsequently the same
gentleman, while walking up stairs with the
boy above spoken of, suddenly found him
choking by his side-the effect of hanker-
chief lied tightly around his throat From the
lie and from its tightness he was convinced
the boy did not do il himself, and no one else
was near them. II seemed to have been efIec-
ted instantaneously while the genilemsn's
eyes were for an instant, averted.
AT olher times the boys clothes have been