The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-13
vo1OEssAY1NG LISTEN, LISTEN
An Old Man is Troubled by Spooks
and Uncanny Visitors.
From the Ne,o York Press.

EfOHS tftc AfGtO OTh 1TeSS.
One of the most singular affairs occurred
in this city a number of years ago, but
never reached public notoriety, it is said
from the fact that the parties we're promi
nentin business and social life A wealthy
citizen, since dead, lived in q fine house
with his wife in one of the fashionable
portions of the city. The wife has since
cied, and both left considerable property
which has been distributed to various heips
There were no children. Old man NJ. had
virtually retired from business, and, having
reached a good age, was content TO spend
most of his time at home. Soon, however
strange whispers went the rounds of the
neighborhood to the effect that all was not
right at the NJ. mansion. Lights, unusually
brilliant, were often seen burning in the
upper rooms until a late hour at night. and
often until daylight. Forms could be seen
moving hurriedly about the house, and not
infrequently would a well-known physi.
clans carriage dash up to the steps and re-
main an hour at time.
What caused all this unusual stir, and al
such unseemly hours? Neighbors will talk
and neighbors will quite often pry into other
peoples affairs. So by dint of persistency
1t was finally learned by a select few that
old man NJ. was almost nightly tormented by
apparitions, some of them pleasant in ap
pearance, but most of them absolutely
hideous.
A HEAD OF HORROR.
Little was known of old man NJ s pas
life. He was regarded as an honest anC
valuable citizen, possibly little eccentric
but of good habits and genial disposition
and that he should see spirits in his room
every night was almost Incredible. He die
not alone witness these apparitions. They
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that it cannot be said that the old man had
gone daft. From one who was called &c
attend NJ. on one occasion the following
remarkable story is learned:
The old man had a terrible time with
spooks and uncanny visitations," said the
narrator. "About II or IL o'clock at night
he would start suddenly from his bed and
declare that the room was full of strange
voices. l declare had notion that the
old man was crazy, but l sat still by bis
bedside. Soon we could hear subdued
whispers from every direction of the room
Voices were saying: 'Listenl Lstenp We
did listen, and look, too, for presently a
guitar, white as mist, 1oated into the mid
die of the room. Then two misty ieweled
hands-they were the hands of woman
played on the strings. | amt much of a
musician, but that music was certainly the
sweetest | ever heard. just then the old
man shouted: See that horrid thing-that
bloody headp turned just in time to see
the vision OF a mans head as it melted from
view. 1t was horrible sight. Blood was
dripping from the white beard. The eyes
were opening and closing in spasmodic
agony.
WAS 1T A SPIRITUALIST SCHEME?
1.-THE old man swo oned away, and | sum.
moned his physician and others in the
house. Restoratives were administered,
and he passed the balance of the night in a
troubled Sleep l would not stay with him
again, believing that the mouse was haunted
in fact, began to think that some great
mystery lay shrouded in the mansion. The
utmost secrecy was enjoined upon all those
who attended the old man, and the affair
was kept pretty quiet The old man was
horribly tormented by these visitations for
long time. He could see all manner of
hideous things-corpses in their grave
clothes. spooks of all kinds, heads of muir
derers, suicides and the like Medical experts
were summoned, who pronounced him sane.
They themselves, 1t appears witnessed
many strange things in the house. but it
was only when the old man was alone or
with an attendant that he saw the most
hideous sights. l got enough of it in one
night"
From other sources it is learned that
about year before old man NJ. died the
visitation of spooks ceased. About that
time, too, a noted spiritualist of the city
mysteriously disappeared. The mystery
has never been wholly cleared up, but one
or two knowing ones think that diabolical
scheme was on foot to drive old man M. in
sane, so that he would not make will, or,
in case he did, that it could be easily con-
tested. Some people assert that the hob
COLLINS were spirits called from the realms
of the dead by the power of some evil-dis-
posed medium employed for the purpose