The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-08-02
SUPERHUMAN .PUENOllENA

A HOUSE At MARTIN'S FERRY, OHIO,
POSSESSED or SIIRI7S-Ht1NDfeIzDN
OF PERSONS WITNESS INCREDIBLE
OCCURRENCES.
A very curious phenomenon has lust
occurred in this com nunity. The
scene of action is about five miles in
the country back Of town, on q main
road leading to C;ldiz, ut the house Of
Mir. William McCOmus, wealthy far
mer. The community around Mr.. Nc
COmaS's are almost all Friends-Quak-
ers-and are not in the habit of prOduc-
ing sudden excitelnents, hence their re-
ports, together with those of we'll
known citizens of this place and Wheel
ing, stamp it with truth.
About nine O'Clock Monday morning
Mrs. McConIas heard a noise in the
pantry, and on going in to learn the
cause was surprised to see almost eve
rything there falling from tile shelves
to the floor, and on replacing some
cans of fruit saw they would not stay,
but reeled about and fell to the floor.
Being alarmed, she ut once went and
called the men from the fields where
they were 1T work. On coming into
the house they were struck with amaze
ment with what was going on. The
neighbors were sent for, many of whom
came at once and saw sights such AS to
throw the most advanced spiritualistic
far in the Shade. The cooking stove
moved from one side of the room to the
other. A large piano, weighing about
800 pounds, moved out from the wall
half way across the parlor. Two clocks
stationary upon mantles, fell off upon
their faces Oh the floor. They were re-
placed and did not stop running, nor
were they injured. A feathtr led in
one OF the lower rooms rlised itself
high OFT the bedstead and rested on the
floor, while feather bed up stairs was
carried from one room through anOth-
er, down stairs, and rested on the hall
floor. Pots filled with water were
thrown off the stove. A sewing ma
chine thrown almost across the room
and rested upside down. Several large
jars, containing buffers of different
kinds and weighing about forty pounds,
were turned upside down, an on being
hastily filled 10y the almost frantic pe0-
pie, were placed in tub, where they
remained but q moment, when they
raised themselves out emptying out
their contents. A tea canister, filled
with tea, moved across the room in
such a position as to empty itself and
cover the floor with tea as 4 farmer
would coverf the ground with grain;
the drawers from the bureau would
slowly move from their places out into
the middle of the room; several large
hams were repeatedly thrown from the
hooks to the floor; books from the t:,-
bles and bookcase were thrown all a.
bout the room, and in fact everything
movable was during the day thrown
out of place. Willie the strange scene
was transpiring the M ig'lbors were
Hooking in and passefs-by were filling
UP the house. More than 4 hundred
saw the affair, and all speak of it as
something unheard of before. A part
of the things in the pantry had in the
meantime been replaced by Mrs. Nc
Comas, and while there explaining to
a party of neighbors everything she had
replaced came tumbling down upon
their heads. A batch of eight newly
baked lOaves of bread were torn into
hundreds of pieces and cast about the
room, several pieces of which were
gathered up and sent to friends.
The phenomena lasted all day Mon
day until night, was quiet throughout
the night, but commenced action again
early Tuesday morning and ceased II
bout noon. Hundreds of people have
and are still visiting the scene of the
excitement. Hacks are running from
Bridgeport out to-day. The question
in our excited neighborhood is, What
is it?
DR.. J. NJ. Todd (well known in Pitts
burg), Of Bridgeport, went out, and
latter i careful examination of all de-
tails and evidences reports 1t as a
mysterious and unaccountable truth -
Pittsburg Gazette.