The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-02-25
CORLINs IN AMITY STREET,
NEW YORK.

A House Which Nobody VIII Buy or
Even Hire-sRent Free % Whoever
viii Live IN It.sThe RaymOndS'
Experiences.
Ono hundred and six AmEty street is q
large three.story and basement brick
house, substantially built in an old fash
Toned style. 1t was once DR.. Grindle's
asylum. About eighteen months ago this
man quit it. Other tenants took It, but
they, too, removed. Toward the close Of
last December, while the house thus stood
vacant, its owner was casually informed
by William Raymond, a carpenter who
occasionally worked for him, that the lat.
ters mother and sisters were about TO
leave the lodgings they then had and were
looking for others.
"WhY," said the owner Of JOG, "that re-
minds me that have house which Is
unoccupied. II your mother and sisters
wish 10 move into that they are welcome
to live there free Of rent, and II they can
get anybody 10 rent or buy It am ready
10 give them o commission.
The Raymond family moved into the
house about Christmas. 1t consisted OF
the mother, an old lady that's blind, and
Of Harriet and Jane, two daughters.
Relics Of Dr.. Grindle they found none, ex-
cept q mysterious vault in the basement,
in which were piled some Of the beds
and mattresses on which he had racked
his patients.
The first day Of their stay the Ray
monds passed without any striking incl.
dent. The second night Is famous for It's
terrible snow storm. The cold increased
in intensity until at about hall.past two
o'clock all the inmates Of the house were
forced to arise from their beds, and as
sembling in the back parlor they built a
fire in the crate and huddled about 1t.
About 3 o'clock they were appalled, by
a dreadful groan, apparently from be.
meath their very feet. For q moment
they covered in silent terror before the
FIRE; but Jane is full Of latent courage,
and after recovering from her first sur.
prise she boldly ran down stairs to dis
cover the source Of the sound that had
startled them.
But new terrors awaited her. The
sound OF crashing dishes filled the apart
ment, but not an animate object did she
see, nor was an article Of crockery in the
room. There was rushing and rustling
TO and fro, and invisible beings fitted by
her, brushing against her on their way.
She iearlessly hGstened to the vault In
which the beds Of Grindle's asylum were
stored, thinking she might find somebody
concealed there, but instead deafeni1g
hammering struck her ear, as though
hundred men were mending boilers down
in the vault-and meantime throughout
the house piercing screams were heard,
shrleks Of agony, awful grosns, and there
was heavy tramping overhead.
The uproar lasted there more than an
hour, but when 1t ceased sleep was as i'm.
possible as before. The whole family re.
manned up until daybreak. That morn
ing one Of the daughters went to the
grocer's at the next corner and ordered
some household supplies.
ITO whom shall send them p asked
"send them to No. 1906" replied Miss
Raymond. .... ...-.
"What!" exclaimed the grocer, "The
haunted house"
That was the first intImation the fam
lily had that the house was haunted. Miss
Raymond says she pressed the grocer for
further information, and learned, among
other things, that Grindle had been sue
ceeded by two tenants, and each had
been forced 10 quit tho house within q
month by the mysterious disturbances to
which it was subjected. One hundred
and six, said the grocer, had long been
known in the neighborhood as the haunt.
ed house, and strange stories were cur
rent Of the unhallowed things that had
been witnessed in 1t while Grindle still
occupied it-iair girls that were seen 10
60 into il and never come out, and many
forms Of despair and suffering.
From the second night Of their stay In
the house, not night has passed but that
at the same hour the same dreadful up.
roar begins.
The Raymonds have thus far borne
with the situation, and they say they are
determined TO fight II out If they can, but
their condition has not improved, and
they see no reason TO expect d change for
the better very soon. Meantime an ex-
ploring party is forming with the avowed
intention ofsearching the vault in the
basement to find an explanation Of the
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