Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-17
BELIEVERS IN THE SUPER
NATURAL
Two authenticated" Ghost Stories
From the Old World.

From the Old World.
have just heard a very curious story
which is now going the rounds of London
society, and which forms one of the sensa-
tional topics of the day, says s London
letter. 1t is certainly one of the best
authenticated stories Of the supernatural
that have ever heard, and is one of the
strangest. SURPRISING, as is usual under
the circumstances, the names of the
parties concerned and that of the exact
! locality wherein the incidents transpired,
the narrative runs as follows:
a few months ago a young English
artist, whom we will call Mr.. B., went
down to the county seat of Lord Y to
pay that gentleman a visit. The house
was full, but he was accorded comfort
able and handsome chamber, apparently
one of the best in the house. lie remained
for three days, the only noticeable feature
about his visit being that each night he
was very troubled by a horrible dream. He
dreamed that he was suddenly awakened
by the entrance of some person into his
room, and that, on looking around, he saw
the apartment brightly Illuminated, while
at the window stood an old lady richly
dressed, in the act of throwing something
out. Her task accomplished, she turned
her face toward the amazed spectator,
showing a countenance so distorted with
evil passions, so hideOus in its expression
Of wickedness, that it thrilled his soul
with horror. Then the light and the
dreadful old woman disappeared together,
leaving the artist to imagine that he had
been tOrmented by a frightful nightmare.
But on returning to London his magma
ton was so haunted by that fearful cOun-
tenance, thrice seen amid the watches Of
the night, that he made a sketch of it,
mich so conveyed the evil expression
W, Sting aspect of the midnight bag
anu ut rev. tS.e -aTybOdy to whom he showed
it. one day the ar..tst went to pay cal. call
on Lord x, and that q aboT him
him into his picture gallery to -uoH nm Nm
some remarkable family pOrtl I. VS.
Among these what was the painters sur
prise to recognize in the likeness OF a we'll
dressed and stately old lady the features
of his dream visitant, minus the revolving
and wicked expression. 81 have seen
that lady, was his involuntary eXclama-
ton as his eyes rested on the portrait.
"Indeed," said Lord x: smiling,
THAT is hardly possible, since she oied
something over 100 years ago. She was
th9 second wife of my great-grand father,
and was ANYTHING but a credit to the
family, for she was strongly suspected OF
having murdered her husbands son by
his first marriage in order to make her
own son the heir to the property. The I'M
fortunate boy broke his neckina fall from
one of the windows OfOur country seat, and
there is but little doubt of his having been
precipitated from the window by his step
MOTHER The artist then related the cir
cumstances of his thrice-repeated dream
and sent for his sketch, which, so far as
features went, was Identical with the
portrait in Lord rs gallery. lie
afterward caused the sketch to be photo
r~raTnhn6 and tho lady who fold the
story said that she had herself seen the
photograph, and that the wicked face had
haunted her afterWard for days.
l have also recently heard in England
the following strange and undoubtedly
true story: A year ago an American
gentleman died suddenly while travelling
in Europe during the summer, ana MS
remains were deposited in a receiving
vault TO await the approach of cold
weather before they were transported to
the United States. Some time before the
body arrived in America one of the de-
ceased's business agents had a very vivid
dream, in which he saw his defunct en-
plOyer standing by his bedside. 81 am
come" said the vision, "to tell you that
the coffin in which my corpse has been
inclOsed is entirely too large to be gotten
through the door Of our family vault.
You must have part of the doorway taken
down before the funeral, else a very veXa-
tiOus delay in the ceremonies will ensue."
OF course the gentleman was far too
strOng-minded to take so extreme step
as that of causing the doorway of the
vault to be paItly demolished in obedience
to the prOmptings of dream. But when
the body arrived the coffin was found to
be far too large for the entrance, and all
the annoying incidents that had been pre-
dlcted in the dream did really take place.
For the truth of the above story can my
self vouch, as know all the parties.