The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-03-27
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SFDALIA, NC.
TUESDAY, MARCH 81, 1883.
SPOOKS.

SPOOkS.
A tremendous ghost story comes
from Hartford. There is 'haunted
house" there which is fairly crowded
with spooks. They pervade it from
attic to basement, aud conduct them.
selves as if they owned the place
Ghosts are usually credited with NOV
ing with light, noiseless tread, but
the Hartford variety do not do that.
They invariably tread heavily, and if
there is a loose plank in the floor
they make it squeak. This peculiar
ity seems to indicate that they origin
ally came from Chicago, if the endless
series of gibes at the big feet
of Chicago maidens have any founda-
ton in fact. They first appeared in
the sitting-room, walking heavily
about while the lady of the
house was alone in the dining.
room below. When she came up
sairs and looked in the room the
footsteps ceased, and no body was Wis
ible. Alter repeating this perform
ance several times, the spooks tried a
change, and began to walk heavily
about the hall and mp and down the
stairs during the night. They enjoy
ed this apparently, for they did it
evey night, naturally causing consid-
cradle uneasipess among the other
and earthly occupants of the house.
One night the man of the house
braced himself for test. When he
heard the footsteps ascend the stairs
and approach his door, he opened it
and stepped out into the hall, locking
the door behind him. Instantly the
sound in the hall ceased, but began
Immediately in the room he had left.
He knew there could be- no doubt
about it, for there was a loose board
in the floor, and every time the spook
trod on that it gave q familiar squeak
which it was accustomed to emit
whenever a human being walked over
it. This was very interesting per-
Torrance, and the excitement it
caused aroused the spooks to fresh ex-
ertion. They began to prance about
the house with lights. Heavy foofalls
and glancing lights appeared all over
the house nearly every night, and all
through the day the tramp, tramp,
tramp was kept up in the sitting
room. It.was becoming very live
ly house to live in and to sleep in, and
a somewhat uncomfortable one.
But the spooks were not yet at the
end of their resources. One evening
the lady of the house, who was not
feeling quite well, owing to the sup
ernaturally active condition of things
around her, was mixing quoting
potion, when the spoon jumped out
of the cup and fell upon the floor.
At the same moment she herad a
crash in a neighboring cupboard, and
looking in there, found a tunbler
with hole pierced in it as a ifpistol
ball had been shot at it. Both these
manifestations" happened while the
lady stood in a well-lighted room.
After this display of power the spooks
became more quiet. They had shown
what they could do. and they went
back to their tramping, leaving the
spoons and tumblers in peace. A
spook who traeds heavily and carries
a lantern is merely an unpleasant
thing to have in the house, but when
he takes to carrying q pistol he be-
comes dangerous, and we are not sur
prised to learn that after her expert
ence with the spoon and the tumbler
the lady ofthe house began to inquire
for q medium" who might catch the
troublesome visitors. The medium
has not yet appeared, but she or he is
likely to shortly, when the usual admis'
sion fee will doubtless be charged to
witness the capture Of the So ooks in
mighty ''seances.
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