The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-09-12
A Ghost that Does Not Like Women.

Reported for The Egis.
Tmd people in the neighborhood of Cherry Hill
Dublin district have lately been greatly exercised
with regard to an alleged ghost which has sue
ceeded in driving family from their home. The
haunted" house IS tWoistory stone Duilang per
putatiOn for ten years past, ana persons Debated
there VIII en- it was unoccupied would hurry away
when the sun went down. stories are told OF
strange noises heard in it and one lady solemnly
AYERS that she saw headless woman walking
about the house.
was not disturbed but he says he saw the room over
the paror lighted up with an unearthly glare when
no lamp had been lighted in it by the family.
Three weeks ago William j. Vickers, the mail
carrier between Bel Air pOStoflce and the railroad
station removed his family into the house Every
thing was peaceful and serene until Tuesday even
| ing OF last week, when Mrs Nickers and her niece
| who were baking bread, went out to the wood-pie
to get some chips leaving DaIen Of pr Preaa DaSg
| was open and the bread gone They became
| alarmed and called in neighbor, Mrs. Edwin
| Nickers As the three ladies entered the house
| they heard some knocking against the door
leading from the Kitchen to the cellar. The door
was bolted but thinking the person VINO had remoy-
ed the bread had taken refuge in the cellar they
further secured the door by mailing 1t. and left
| Shortly afterwards Edwin Fickers went TO the
| forced open from the inside. He looked around
furtiyely but saw nothing alarming. Not satisfied
neishbors, consisting of VIM. I. Walter and his
| two sons. James Motson and brother, VIM. b.
| Grafton. Charles Kennedy and James Stewart
clubs they inspected the premises thoroughly, and
besides finding the bread lying on the cellar floor
| and the open cellar door, everything was as il
| should be. They again hailed up the door and
| left.
The next day Mrs. Vickers returned to her home
| As soon AS she entered the pounding on the eel
| lar door began again and the door, she says, was
| bursted open by some unseen force. She fled In
terror. Another search by the ne'ghbors elicit
| ed no clue to the mystery.
| The next night five daring spirits, armed and
fortified, held vigil in the house, but the ghost did
| not materialiZe.
The Vickers family were afraid to remain in the
| house at night but visited 1t occasionally during
| the day, and every time woman approached OF
entered the house the pounding on the cellar door
| would begin and the door would be torn from It's
| faSteuings.
| Last Monday morning Mrs. Yickers' mother-n
law not being afflicted with tmdity: searched the
cellar but the invisible intruder probably Thought
| it would be unsafe to continue his prlnks. Mrs
! Kennedy, a former occupant of the house. walked
| around it. She heard steps inside and the usual
| knocking. When she approached the kitchen
| door the knocking was there and when she went to
| the front door, it was there also.
Edwin Vickers also claims to have heard the
| noise, being he only man who has been so fortu-
| nate.
1t is suggested that the house is for sale and the
| "ghOst" wants to buy it at Il low figure.