The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-08
AN OLD MANS GHOST.
Am ApparitiOn that is startling a
Neig lAbOrh OO6.

Ulster County seems to be favored
neighborhood for ghostly visitations, and
other things of marvellous nature. The
widespread excitement last winter regard
ing the Dunn dwelling, which for long
while was believed by many credulOus per
sons to be haunted, has already been fol-
lowed by another similar sensation. Unlike
that of old man Mcdonald, the prevailing
ghost does not confne itself to particular
dwelling or spot, but haunts whole neigh
| borhood The locality visited by this ghost
is thinly-inhabited farming region, stu
ated at the foot of ShaWangunk Mountains,
! in a remote part of the town of Rochester,
and called LogtoWn.
In this neighborhood lives family by
the name of Rose, the head of which, Louis
Rose, died some months since. "Old Man
Rose" as his neighbors called him, was a
remarkably eccentric character A scotfer
at the Christian religion, and blasphemer
in no small degree, he despised all religious
instruction up to the day of his death, and
entertained contempt for ministers of the
Gospel which he could i'll conceal. He re-
peatedly informed his family that he did
not want preacher to otficiate at his tu--
neral. He looked upon eternal punishment
as the penalty of his disobedience and i'm
piety with anything but fear. He was an
illiterate old fellow, intellectually incapable
of indulging in philosophical speculations
on any subject But there was one fear
that constantly haunted Rose, and which,
in spite of his fearless and stoical nature,
he could not conquer, and that was terror
of being buried alive.
About year ago Rose was seized with his
last illness. On his death bed he raved and
cursed, but became calm in his last mo-
ments and called his wife to his bedside and
said wife, I'm goin' to die. Satan is after
me. / hear the rattling of his chains. But
| will promise you if | can break away from
him will come back" Still haunted with
the fear of premature burial, he concluded
with the request that his body be kept eight
days before being buried, and he desired to
| have it thrown out on the fields after that
length of time to be eaten by the crows.
This request his friends regarded to GER
tain extent strange as it was, but having no
means to preserve the body, decomposition
set in almost Immediately after death, and
the turgid and discolored corpse, which
emitted stencil that it was scarcely posi-
BILE to bear, was inferred on the fifth day
The promise of Rose to come back if he
could break the chains of Satan was known
only to himself and family for long while,
and certainly nothing was more unlocked
for than its fulfllment for as much given
to superStitiOuS notions as the people OF re-
mote neighborhoods usually are, none
doubted that Rose had been taken care OF,
and so not thought was given the matter.
But that he has come back isHery general
ly believed in the community. His ghost
first appeared, it seems, one night recently,
when it was met on the open highway by a
member of the Independent Order of Odd
fellows The ghost, he af1irms, was stand
ing with his face toward him, not ten feet
away, and as there was bright moon
light at the time, he is positive that be
could not have been laboring under delu-
sion. Besides, he had been acquainted with
Rose for years, and the personal appearance
of the deceased was such as to make his
identity certain under almost any circum-
stances He did not speak to the apparition,
because it vanished before he had an oppor-
tunity to do so. On u subsequent occasion
Rose appeared to another resident of the
community, and, he AYERS spoke to him.
At another time a lady living in an adjoin,
ing neighborhood asserts that the ghost OF
the departed was seen in her house, and
she is willing to testify so under oath. AL
together the apparition has been seen on
five different occasions, by as many fierent
persons.-[N. Y. Times.