San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-06
A GHOST.
What Was Seen by a Young Man on His
May Hume from IA Party.

Way -iipNAe isom u NhIty'
New. : ono Of the most interesting ghost
stories 'ver heard in upper DeKalb county
has bera brought to light here. The facts
are about as fOllows@ Tuesday night a young
man, while returning from a neighborhood
dance about l o'clock, took the lonely road
for home, which runs through a dark wood
land, surrounded by deep wales and lofty
peaks, and overhung with huge cliffs, whose
summits are crowned with gigantic pines.
Not a clearing dlStur6s the thickness of the
woodland, save one solitary spot almost over
grown with vines and shrubs, where stands
Wondering an old stone building, with de.
cayed and ruined walls and lofty towers, al
most overgrowu with moss, resembling great
" the old haunted Kirk A~lloway, so famous
in Tam O'Shanter."
All these scenes combined could not daunt
the courage Of the young mountaineer as he
marched on with quickening pace. But just
as he was approaching the old haunted build
ing, which has for many years been frequented
by the ghost Of a mysterious old lady, who
many wears ago suddenly disappeared, as an
old fireside legend has it, and took up her
abode in the vaults of this old building, which
was aucieutly used by a band of eXiled monks,
and thought TO lave been built by them at
least a century ago, and which has for many
years been hidden from public notice, I'M
visited for a long time by any human being,
there, suddenly rising from the ground, like
the ghost of Banquo, appeared before him a
tall, dark apparition with outstretched hands
and glowing eyes revolving in their fiery
sockets, and tangled gray hair, wearing a
loose black robe descending from the shoulder
to the feet.
The boy stood amazed, motionless and
dumb. This scene lasted out for a moment.
The ghost, as suddenly as it appeared, disap-
peared. Recognizing his situation the boy
Immediately made a forward double quick at
an almost incredible rate. CHANGING over his
shoulder he saw the old monastery lighted by
candles, which were held in the hands of a
solemn procession of monks in their religious
attire, as they treaded Ioiselessl! around an
iron coffin in the center Of the door. Upon
the coffin we're two candles, one r;pon the head,
the other upon the foot. Each monk carried
a cross Of his order and they were chanting
an old English tune. -
Upon the head of the coffil was a golden
| cross, and as each mOnk passed the cross ne
made a low bow and uttered some words of
prayer. Suddenly all was dark and the
vaulted doors OF the interior part of the old
monastery were heard to 3pen and creak
upon their rusty hinges, and then began a
clicking of chains and Q chaos of ghostly
noises, which were soon h,Gshed, the vaulted
doors closing with a slans. All was now ST.
lent and the owl again began his hooting
and the wind was heard signing through the
pines.
No consideration could have kept the BOY
long on this lonely spot. He rushed onward
and reached home almost unconscious. He
aroused the family with his terrific cries,
and it was not until several applications of
camphOr were made that he was able to tell
his story.-Nashville American.