Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-11-30
Extraordinary Ghost Story.


Most ghost stories are only foolish and laugh
able but this one, from The Buffalo CONNER
ciaI is certainly melancholy in the extreme.
Within the past year the people of village
in Western State became greatly excited by
the alleged nightly appearance of ghost in
the village graveyard Few Of them, indeed,
lad dared io see il but some had and they,
without making too familiar with it, had still
seen it come and go, walk about, seat itself,
ETC., and the statements Oft those were too well
authenticated to be disregarded. What the few
saw, The many believed (; and the whole COM
munity soon became exercised 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 en-
tirely regular in its hours-always arriving
among the tombs just at midnight, and leaving
at nearly dawn. 1t had often been seen TO
come and GO, passing over fences in its course;
bnt no one had learned whence it came, or
whittier il went
At length the matter from being the town
talk became the town dread. Numerous in
dividuals got excited, and supers,tions ones
grew melancholy and taciturn people looked
doubtingly at each other, as they passed, in
twilight; and all contrived their journeyings
at that hour, SO as not TO approach the last res
ting place of their departed friends.
The growing dread at length became in
sufferable i; and engaged all minds. There
CHANGED to be in The village youth Of 10,
from western New York, whose domestic ed
ucation had carefully excluded all faith in SUI
pernaural agencies, and who therefore looked
DULY to natural causes for explanations of the
events and occurrences ofihis life. This youth
resolved TO fathom the mystery of the grave
yard ghost. He found one associate and tine
two after nighlfall secreled themselves among
The tombs to observe. Punctualy as the hour
of twelve drew nigh, the ghost which had
causel SO much dread was seen approaching
The moon was shining brightly, and the white
ROBBED object distinctly. Overcom-
ing two fences, this entered the graveyard
on foot the investigation, and, as the light fe
fully on the face Of the ghost, he recognized the
well-known features of an acquaintance, who
was then in her wdowhuod. Her husband
had recently been buried there ; and SO dread
fnl had been The shock, that the reason of the
wife had been dethroned by it, and she was
now a wandering maniac. She saw not hel
observers, but seated herself as she was wont
npon the grave Of him she had loved but too
fondly. The two then approached the unfor
tunate, and addressede her in kindness. Sh,
knew them not, but conversei freely with them
calling them angels, and craving protection.
She was 10 her night-clothes, and her wander
ing thus, through the agony she suffered, anc
her nightly occupying this sad seat, had con
verified that poor mental wreck of humanity in
TO ghost On this occasion she could not b
induced 10 abandon her post and, of necessity
she was left there to complete the hours @
that nights pilgrimage. She is now in L.
naic asylum.