Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-17

From the Ael0a1R (Sa) Ad0ertiser.
A gentleman living about two miles
north of town, noted for his trutnfulness,
relates a strange and thrilling appartlon
which he was an eyewitness OF last We'd
nesday that battles all attempts at eXpla-
nation. This gentleman says ne never
did believe in ghosts or any spirit mani
iestati0ns, nor does he so believe now, UIt
that what he saw on WahOO creek the
! other day has shaken his faith very much
and he is now ready to believe in any
| Jning. He admits that mis- mother has al
ways been regarded as a spirit medium
| through whom by rappings on the table
and pencil writing on slate, she could
hold conversation with her departed
friends and often claimed to see things
that no one else could see, but that he
never believed in all her "fOOhshnesss,"
and regarded II as a huge JOKE. At one
time be saws while his mother was in q
semi-cOnSciOus state she called for pencil!
and slate, and on taking the pencil in
hand wrote upon the slate to 60 at once
TO her married sister living in JonesbOrO
lying at the point of death, signing her
dead fathers initials. Immediately toll
lowing was message from a departed
aunt telling her to go, as her sister was
dying and wanted to see her about caring
for her little three-year-Old girl. On re-
turning to consciousness she took the FIRST
train to JOnesDOrO to find her 81 ster in the
lastagonies ofdeath. But even with all this
and many other strange things that have
happened through the mediumistic influ-
ences of his mother, be doubted any SUI
DeTnGtural agencies and thought it only
a delusion or fancy of the old woman.
Wednesday morning While most of the
people in and around Newman were busily
engaged in work he Went out upon W ahOO
creek, about three miles from town, and
when in very dense section of bushes
and trees he observed five strange looking
creatures, one of whom was very tall and
slender, wearing thin garment Of white
and black, with hat neither ancient nor
modern, but similar to those worn by
Texas cowboy. and arms long and taper
ing, with fair and lily-white hands; an
other not quite so tall but large and broad
shoudered, with voice similar to those
birds that fly up and down the Cumber-
land river In Tennessee. whose dress was
similar to the other, only much longer in
the train and more difficult to carry
through the weeds and briars; another
wore peculiar and thin wrapper, an
tique in appearance yet artistic in design,
revealed lithe-like form that would have
done for model Tor an Angelo or worthy
the facile pencil of Raphael, gided
about over the rocks and cliffs with per-
feet ease. This creature, human or spirit,
he could not divine which, had for com
paniOns two little mermaids, habited like
the nereids and graces, all OF whom were
e eating blackberries, not pucking them
with their hands as people generally do.
but gathering them with their bills Ike
birds. Whenever they wanted to 90 from
one bank Of the stream to the other they
fitted across the water like wrens Jump
ing from log to log iE a wood pile. Finally,
having satiated their appetItes. they sud
denly disappeared in the water like young
ducks diving for insects in a shallow
stream. After regaling themselves for
some time they then returned through the
woods, flying up into the trees and hang
ing to the limbs like sapsuckers TO a dead
pine and leaping the railroad cut above
the bridge without the slightest effort.
By this time night came on and they
slowly wendell their way up to the east
side of the cemetery, where the fence is
high, which they leaped over without put
ting their hands on the fence or putting
forth any eXertiOn whatever. The gem
tleman then came around TO the south
side of the cemetery and went in, just
as he reached the cluster Of bushes on the
western slope of the grounds, he discov-
cred these creatures sitting on tomb
stone, who, on his approach. raised their
arms, gave hideOus shrill and vanished
like mist before the sunlight. He stood
for some moments mOtionless and speech
less, scarcely believing his ewes, vet
knowing full well that he was in his right
mind. He is of the opinion that if there
are such things as ghosts, or that the
spirits of the dead can return to earth.
that what he saw was certainly OF that
character.