Wichita eagle., 1889-01-30
THE GHOST OF SHARON.
Queer Doings of a Sadly-Disposed
Spookess.
The Specter Views the World, at Inter
walls, from tho Window of an Empty
Room, and vanishes into
Nothingness.
Isharon pa, Cor Harrisburg Telerram.l

sharon tPa.) Cor. Harrisburg Telegram.1
Nearly every person in this vicinity
knows the position OF Pine hollow, deep
ravine south east of the city. 1t is thickly
covered with trees. An abandoned railroad
runs through the lonely place. Great
lodges of rocks hang over the little stream
called Pine run. No crime has ever dis
turbed the locality, but it is connected with
the following strange circumstances:
About q stones throw from the terminus
of the gloomy hollow lived until a few
days ago Valentine Damn and family.
Damn is an intelligent, pleasantmannered
German, who, before coming to Sharon.
lived at No. 1919 Payne avenue, Cleveland
He is well-read and a good talker. His wife
is prepossessing and accomplished wom-
an, and their two little children are equally
interesting and intelligent. These assurances
are given in order that it may be seen the
principals are not persons liable to bepreyed
upon by Imagination OF superstition. The
house in which the Damms lived stands on
an elevation above the road leading from
Ashland to Wheatland, and is substantial
frame structure. Damn is a stove-molder,
and while at work at the Sharon foundry
one day recently his wife took the children
and visited neighbours home. On return
inf she was somewhat startled to discover
that although she had securely locked the
door before leaving, q strange woman sat
inside the window of bedroom facing in
the direction of the neighbours house.
Greatly surprised, Mrs. Damn opened the
kitchen door and proceeded to the bedroom,
To v,d witt ont
wholly undisturbed. The experience IN
nerved her, and she expressed the greatest
relief when her husband came home and
was informed Of the circumstance. While
having every confidence in his wifes good
common sense, Valentine could not de-
fine the visitor as being any thing but
vagary, and nothing more was thought OF
it for q few weeks, when the apparition
was again seen under similar circum-
stances. Again did Mrs. Damn go to the
certain room this time with haste and Wig
ilance by which she hoped to avoid being
tricked. But the vision was as perfect as
on the first occasion. For the second time
Mrs Damn treated her husband to a re-
cital, but not the slightest hint was dropped
to any one else by either Of the parties.
Shortly afterward, while Mrs. Damn was
engaged in household duties in a room ad-
joining the bedroom above mentioned and
with the partition door closed, neighbours
wife, who came to make a visit, noticed the
phenomenal intruder seated at the chosen
window, and on entering the kitchen casu-
ally asked who the lady at the side room
window was. She answered that there was
none there to her knowledge.
ooh" replied the neighbor, ''but l saw
her quite plainly"
The two entered the room referred to
and were chagrined to find it vacant.
Mrs. Damn questioned her sister closely
regarding the appearance and position of
the person alleged to have been seen. The
replies were given in great sincerity and
perfectly described the cause of Mrs.
Damms establishment at previous
time. After this episode the specter APP
peared to lose its shyness, and was seen
at least once a week, several times by
drivers bowling along the road from Sha-
ron to Wheatland, and quite often by
persons who went out Of pure curiosity
Mrs. Damn on several occasions would
leave her Homework, take the eager sight
seers to point on the premises some
yards distant from the window, and more
than once would the entire party be
treated to a glimpse of the visionary
form. Once a trio of very incredulous
men who had called to gaze on the mys-
ferrous lady, after waiting unrewarded
for hours, were about to vent their skep-
ticism and go away, when they observed
the figure of woman stealthily cross
the room and seat herself apparently
or chair at the window, remaining there
several minutes, when she retraced her
steps, not, however, before her image was
distinctly seen. The specter is described as
appearing as slim, middle-aged woman,
rather plain in appearance, possessing a
broad low forehead, banded with very
dark hair, arched eyebrows coming well
down under the temples Her eyes were
not seen plainly enough to be correctly de-
scribed. Her nose was we'll formed, while
her lips were very thin and compressed.
She wore what seemed to be loose-fitting
black waist, and, when seated, invariably
rested her head on her hand, and wore
pensive expression of such depth as to Gre
ate a feeling of sadness in the breast of
the beholder.
Mr. Damn could stand the annoying
visitor NO longer, and, at the advice of
numerous sound-minded friends who had
seen the specter, he this week moved to a
house owned by Frank Davis, and situated
on Elm street, East hill.