The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-30

bers. The furniture responds to the pressure
Of unseen hands. Once a case of drawers was
thrown down with loud chatter and nothing
was seen to touch it. On another day chest
was tipped over, q table danced door opened
and shut noiselessly, and capering Of feet
was heard on the back stairs
When Mr.. Greene goes out of the house
rustic follows him and when he comes in it
goes ahead of him. He has searched every
nook and Granny of the habitation in vain for
an explanation of the phenomena, and now
be has decided to flee from the haunted
house. The dwelling was built about 200
Yeas ago, and there is a tradition of a ghost
in its history.
In Bullock county, Ga, not longsin a man
and family by the name of Brannen moved
on to farm formerly occupied by very old
and wife, had no children or relatives, and,
both dying within few weeks of each other,
were kindly buried by friends in the neigh
borhood.
1t was found that they had been living in
the most abject poverty. The place present
ed a miserable appearance, there being very
little furniture or cooking utensils, with
scarcely any provisions, and several ema-
ciated cats and half starved fowls completed
the poverty stricken aspect. Mr.. Brannen
bought the place at auction shortly after the
two old people died and Immediately moved
there with his family. But they were there
only short time before they wished they
had never seen the place. Strange beings
we're to be seen fitting about after nightfaD.
md dismal, unearthly sounds were to be
heard during the day. Mr.. Brannen, his
wife and sons, being honest, hard working
people and non-beievers in ''ghosts," they
paiG little attention al nirs5, thinking it some
practical jokes of the neighbors. But as the
weeks sped by things grew worse instead OF
letter Cold, clammy hands were laid on
different members Of the family at all hours
of the night, sending them into nervous chills.
The bedsteads were jerked about the room,
occupants and all, by some unseen power.
Everything was turned topsy-turvy and it
was impossible to keep anything like order
on the premises. Pandemonium reigned. 1t
seemed as though the very air was filled with
uneasy spirits. The Brannens grew desperate,
and were thinking seriously Of hunting
pastures new" when one morning Mr.. Bran
men and one of his sons, being in the yard
we're startled by a strange, roaring noise,
which seemed to proceed from the ground at
their feet. As he described it, it appeared to
be a small "whirlwind of noise" and some
thing seemed to impel them to follow it. 1t
gradually drifted over into a corn field, and
at the further corner seemed to sink into the
ground, at the roots of an old dead pesch
tree. They went to the house, procured i'm
Elements, returned, dug, and found, no one
knoT just how much, but that it was great
deal of money, and the boarded wealth of q
lifetime of the old couple that died, is well
known. The Brannens have decided to still
remain on the old farm, and it is quiet and
serene there now, where all was chaos short
time ago. The uneasy spirits have accom-
plished their mission and are at rest.
There is in Parkville, L. l., an old house
whose timbers once formed part of the noto-
rious blouse of Blazes," the scene of many
murders and ARRAYS of lesser import on Thir-
tenth street, New York. When the House
of Blazes" was demolished many years ago,
its material was taken to the Flatlands road
and made into another house The house
YVES occupied for the past seven years by a
John Moran, his wife and three children.
During their tenancy there were queer rumors
about the house, believed to be mainly be-
cause of its timbers About year ago Mr..
Moran moved out, and Mr.. Reisner, his wife
and an 1S-year-old son moved in.
Two nights after the son was awakened and
saw ball of fire flying about the room. II
vanished as it came, and he thought it was
an optical delusion. The next night he saw
ring of fire and then grew frightened. a
few nights after this be was treated to a
much more startling appearance. Shortly
after retiring he was awakened by the pres.
ance in the room of man whom he described
as very dark in complexion and wearing
dark pea jacket as his principal article OF
clothing. This figure danced around the
room and grinned and gloated over the terri
fed boy until the latter screamed out In ter
ror and brought his mother into the room just
in time to see the figure vanish, as they both
declare, into thir Dir Next night Mrs. Refs