Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-14

supernatural DelnGs watch Are
veaehed Fer.
An actual and bona fide haunted hons,
is reported in Marshall county. A CORES
pendent writing to Moandsvilie tells of th,
hair-raising sights and blood curdlins
sounds about the premises. he says:
Up by the Baptist church, on the farm Of
John Redd, stands an old house in close
proximity to the Wheeling and Wsynes
burg pike, and which has been used @ 9
store As rendezvous, in the past for dark
eyed Williams, and as . place where murder
and high carnaval held sway. An honest
upright peddler BY the name Of George
McCandlis Wss here robbed and murdered
also one Jackson, q notorious character,
was here drueged and murdered Many
other individuals, it is thought, have
irstrumentality of Mr.. Redd the
house was cleared of Its in famous outlaws.
fell into disuse, and was and is now called
the .'Stabers Barracks." Quite recently,
however the house has bee repaired and
let to one Joseph McCoeh, who stays there
with his family during the day, but when
the shades of evening approach they all,
with one consent, hasten 10 where repose
will be less annoying. Sometimes they
eep in the barn hard by, at other times
in school house some distance away, but
more frequently at some good neighbours
house. Whether the family be routed by
gloomy imaginations, or by the return OF
the
SPIRITS OF THE MURDERED MEN,
We leave the reader to determine. The
true facts of the matter are about as fol.
lows: Down by a slip near the spring,
where McCandlis was supposed to have
been hid, can be heard, quite distinctly,
form of q skeleton, with a peddlers budget,
springs up and slowly trudges up the hill,
meandering to pair OF bars, thence fol-
lowing the road q short distance to
the house. At the gate it gives a short halt,
but as if by magic the gate flies open, and
with one long stride the skeleton reaches
the door, which flies ajar, up the
rickety stairs it hurries, and there, in
corner, it crouches, until the dawn OF day.
But what is remarkable is the noise which
precedes it, and which seems to be entirely
separate and distinct from it. The noise
leaves the slip
INADvANcE OF THE SKELETON,
it rapidly climbs the hill. and always goes
through the bars, up the road, and some
times the sound enters under the house,
through walls, doors or WlnuOWS, anu SOME
times it will enter through the roof and
upper part of the house. The noise is new.
er still or at rest. Frequently it will ap-
pear under the solid stone step upon
which you stand, again it runs along the
wall or floor, hithsr and thither all the
time until the skeleton vanishes. Tho
sound is peculiar, very dirge like, and one
4 OF soon 10 be forgotten. Its low, dying
like gaping makes the stoutest shudder.
The foregoing can be attested by hun.
dreds of people who have gathered from all
parts of the country to see and be con.
WINGED of the reality OF the thing. Last
Sabbath over one hundred and fifty were
there. and staid until after midnight.
Every night more or less go, and all come
away satisfied Of the supernatural. Not
in ghosts, we trust that eventu.
ally this nay be explained as belonging to
he natural, but at present we must confess
Il at the circumstances are very mysterious