Litchfield enquirer., 1864-12-29
NO GHOST.

l don't know how people feel who have seen ghost; perhaps it would be a relief to them to find that the white garment shrouded a broomstick but for myself, once saw fig ure in a sheet which it would be an infinite re lief to me to believe ghost. l saw this fig ure, man or woman know not five ye:.rs ago when Was lodging in ihs second floor of a house in Bloomsbury street. There were at that time unfurnished rooms 70 let on the sec. ohd floor of the opposite house. The blinds were not drawn down. so that. before the win dows were too dirty could See into two ol these empty rooms. That opposite my own was an inner room, lighted by two windows and entered only from an adjoining small ante chamber. and this. which also looked into the street, had one window. The great bill,
 TO LET, UNFURNIsHED,
 was there for so many months that it grew yellow with age and gray with dirt, and it wau hanging in hopeless and impotens anaHher by q singe wafer when the >oonls were taken = at least I concladed that they were taken, for the bill disappeared altogether, and was not replaced. !. In the course of few days the windows were cleaned and bed and two chairs were placed in the inner room. There were no curtains and no carpets, nor, so far as could see, any other furniture in these two rooms. But there. was some one in the bed very i'll imagined, Tor although 1 saw the figure move from side to side, never saw it sitting up, or saw the bed empty, or saw the face so as to recognize it if it was that oi man or woman.
 h this case should not have been able to see much of these opposite neighbors, for was only at home in the morning and eve ming. and they have other rooms besides the two have mentioned.
 About fortnight after the lodgers came, I was sitting near my window in the early morning. when my attention was attracted by figure at the window of the an,e-room opposite,- wrapped. as it seemed in white sheet. A corner of the sheet was drawn up round the head and hung over the face like cowl, so that. although the person WAS looking out of the window, no trace of form or feature could be seen; and the arms which were crossed. were also tightly covered by l the sheet. For few seconds it paused by the window, and l, sitting partly behind my window curtain, could See without being seen. Then it entered the inner room, into | which I could see very distinctly. as the win dows were open.
 And here 1t seems necessary to state that the effect produced upon me at the time by this person in sheet has been intensified and has received an added harror. from circuIn stances which occurred later. It is difficult tt describe that which follows,wit allowing thil Horror to creep flu, and yet, so far as l car remember, was not sensible of it at tht time, and felt only strange attraction ant interest and a half surprise that any ots should dress mp and play the fool at o'clock in the morning. s l The figure, as have said. entered th' inner room. and stood for some time quit, motionless by the bedside. Then slowly th, arms were stretched out, pointing at some thing or some one in the bed the head, stiI covered by the sheet. was bent downwaris, l the whole attitude was that of one speaking l with an earnest and eager intensity. But sooi there was the strangest change: the figur started, gave a wild bound, and commencet leapina and dancing round the bed, standin, a with outstretched arms for moment at th foot of it, and then springing first to one sid land then to the other with such wondeffuiTu