Glasgow weekly times., 1854-09-28
Extraordinary Ghost Story.

Most ghost stories are only fool
ish and laughable; but this one is
certainly melancholy in the extreme.
Within the past year, the people
OF village in Western State be-
came 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 maxi
ing too familiar with it, had still
seen it come and go, walk about,
seat itself, &c., and the statements
of all those were too well authenti-
Gated to be disregarded. What the
few said the many believed and
the whole community soon became
exercised on 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 entirely
regular in its hours-always arising
among the tombs at just midnight,
and leaving at near early dawn
It lad often been seen to come and
60, passing over fences in its course;
but no one had learned whence it
came or whittier it went.
At length the matter, from being
the town talk, became the town
dread. Numerous individuals got
excited, and superstitious ones grew
melancholy and taciturn people
looked doubtingly at each other as
they passed in twilight, and all con-
trived their journeying at that hour,
so as not to approach the last rest
ing place Of their departed friends.
The growing dread at length be-
came insuferable, and engaged all
minds. There CHANGED to be in the
village a youth Of nineteen from
Western New York, whose domestic
education had carefully excluded all
faith in supernatural agencies, and
who, therefore, looked only to ma
tural causes for explanations of the
events and occurrences of this life.
This youth resolved to fathom the
mystery Of the graveyard ghost.
He found one associate, and tie
tao, after nightfall, secreted them
selves among the tombs to observe.
Punctually, as the hour of twelve
drew nigh, the ghost, which had
caused so much dread, was seen ap-
approaching. The moon was shin
ing 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
investigation, and, as the light fell
full upon the face of the ghost, he
recognized the well-known features
of an acquaintance, who was then
in her early widowhood. Her hus-
band 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 a
wandering maniac. She saw moi
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 un-
fortunate, and addressed her in kind.
ness. She knew them not, but con.
versed freely with them, calling
them angels, and craving their pro.
lection. She was in her nigh
clothes, and her wanderings thus
through the agony she had suffered
and her nightly occupying this sac
seat, had converted that poor menta
wreck into a ghost. On this occa
sion she could not be induce tc
abandon her post, and of necessity
she was left there TO complete the
hours of that nights pilgrimage. -
She is now in a lunatic asylum
Buffalo Commercial.
GY% The following is considered
hv the old and eyneripnea1 farmer,