Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-10-17

EXTRAORDINARY Ghost SroRY.-Most ghost
stories are only foolish and laughable; but this
one is certainly melancholy in the extreme.
Within the past year the people of a village
in a western State became greatly excited by
the alleged nightly appearance of ghost in the
village graveyard. Few of them, indeed, had
dared to see it; but some had; and they, without
making too familiar with it, had still seen it come
and 60, walk about, seat itself, &c.: and the
statements of those were too we'll authenticated
10 he disregarded. What the few saw the many
believed: and the whole community soon became
exercised upon the subject Of this strange nightly
visitation to the graves of the dead. Of course
the ghost in the usual grave clothes, in which,
so far as we know. ghosts always appear; and it
entirely regular in its hours-alwavs arriv-
ing among the tombs just at midnight, and leav-
ing ut near early dawn. 1t had often been seen
to come and go, passing over fences in its course,
but no one had learned whence it came or with
CIR it went.
At length the matter from being the town talk
became the town dread. Numerous ind viduals
lot excited, and superstitious ones grew mcan-
choly and taciturn; people looked doubtin,ly at
each other, as they passed, in twilight, AMI all
contiived their journeying at that hour, us not
TO approach the last resting place of their de-
parted friends.
The growing dread at length became insuacra-
bic: and engaged all minds. There chanc, I'd to
be ill the village youth of nineteen, from West
ern New York, whose domestic education had
carefully excluded all faith in supernatural agen-
cics, and who therefore looked only to natural
causes for explanations Of the events and occur
rcnces of this life. This youth resolved to fathom
the mystery of the graveyard ghost. He found
one associate and the two after nightfall secret
ed themselves among the tOmbs to Observe
Punctually as the hour of II drew nigh, the
ghost which had caused SO mach dread was seen
approaching. The moon shining brightly,
and the white object was seen most distinctly
Overcoming two fences, this entered the grave
yard within actual reach Of the youth who had
set on foot the investigation, and, as the light
fell fully upon the face of the ghost, he rccog-
nized the weil-known features of acluant-
ance, who was then 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 dethroned by it, and she
was now Il wandering mamie. She saw 20: her
observers, but seated herself, as she was wont,
upon the grave of him she had loved but too
fondly. The two then approached the unfortun-
ate, and addressed her in kindness. She knew
them not, but conyersed freely with them, calling
them angels, and craving protection. She was in
her night clothes, and had wandered thus through
the agony she had suffered, and her nightly occu-
pving this sad seat, had converted that poor III
tai wreck Of humanity into Il ghost. On this
occasion she could not be induced to abandon her
post, and # necessity she was left there to COM
riete the horus of that nights pilgrim age. She
is now in lunatic asyluIn.-BuG. Com.