The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1854-10-05
Extroordinarv Ghost Story.

Most ghost stories are only foolish ana
Iaughable; but this one is certainly mel
ancholy in the extreme.
Within the past year the people IN
village in western State became greatly
excited by the alleged nightly appear
ance of ghost in the village graveyard.
Few of them, indeed, had dared to see it;
but some had: and they, without making
too free with it, had still seen it come
and go, walk about, seat itself, &c; and
the statements of all those were too we'll
authenticated to be disregarded. What
the few saw, the many believed; and the
whole community soon became excited
upon the subject Of this strange nightly
visitation to the graves Of the dead. Of
course the ghost was in the usual grave
clothes, in which, so far as We know,
ghosts always appear; and it was entire
" regular in its hours-always arising a
mong the tombs just at midnight, and
leaving at near early dawn. 1t had Of
ten been seen to come and 60, passing O.
yer fences in its course; but 10 one Lad
learned whence it came or whittier it went.
At leugth the matter, from being the
town talk, became the town dread. Nu-
merous individuals got excited, and su
perstitious ones grew melancholy and
taciturn; people looked doubtingly at
each other as they passed, in twilight,
and all contrived their journeying at that
hour so as not to approach the last rest
ing place of their departed friends.
The growing dread at length became
insuferable, and engaged all minds
There CHANGED to be in the village, a
youth of nineteen, from western n. York,
whose domestic education had carefully
excluded all faith in supernatural agen-
cies, and who, therefore, looked only to
natural causes for explanations of the G.
vents and occurrences Of this life. This
youth resolved to fathom the mystery of
the graveyard ghost. He found one as
sociate; and the two, after nightfall, Sc
creted themselves among the tombS to OBJ
serve. Punctuaily, as the hour Of twelve
drew nigh. the ghost which had caused so
much.dread was seen approaching. The
moon was shining brightly, and the white
robed object was seen most distinctly
Overcoming two fences, it entered the
graveyard within actual reach of the
youth who had set on foot the investiga-
ton, and as the light fell fully upon the
face Of the ghost, he recognized the we'll
known features of an acquaintance, who
was Their in her early widowhood. Her
husband had recently been buried there,
and so dreadful had been the shock, that
the reason of the wife had been dethron-
ed by it, and she was now a wandering
maniac. She saw not her observers, but
seated herself, as she was wont, upon the
grave of him she had loved but too fond
IIy. The two then approached the unfor-
tunate and addressed her in kindness
She knew them not, but conyersed freely
with them, calling them angels, and crav-
ine their protection. She was in her
night-clothes, and her wandering thus,
through the agony she had suffered, and
her nightly occupying this sad seat, had
converted this poor mental wreck Of hu-
manity into a ghost. On this occasion
she could not be induced to abandon her
post, and of necessity she was left there
to complete the hours of that nights pill
grimage. She is now in a Lunatic Asy.
/ lum.-BHfdhO Commercial.