Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-09
Mexican Ghosts,

a. 8. Chalfeld. OF the Indianapolis Drug
Company, was in the United States navy
several years, and crused In every sea. He
says:
THE experience that left the most lasting
impression on me was one had With ghosts.
Now, I do not baleve In ghosts fer one MIN
ute, but she experience had is one l am
not able to explain away. There Is hardly
day of my life that do not think OF It,
We stopped at Mexican port and hadn't
bsen there very long until We learned that
the natives were much excited over haunt
ed house that stood eff by itself in lonely
part of the town. Ali the brave men In the
place had visited the honse to hear the
ghoste, and the experience was such that
no one could be Induced to 60 beok second
time. The second mate Of our ship and
decided 10 investigate the ghosts. We firm.
~ believed that Some one In the place was
slipping into the house and making the
strange noises that we're reported IS being
heard. The mate was man who did not
know fear, and we agreed that We would go
prepared to kill the frat ghost that made
Its appearance.
1--WE prepared for the expedition by clean.
Ing and loading four good reviewers and by
providing dark lantern. In the sfternoDn
we vent TO the houes and examined 1t care
fully for secret entrances. Every foot of
flor and wall was examined end We saw
that the doors were ell securely holted on
the inside, e1otp. the one to which we had
key. Soon alter dark we went to the
house and made second examination, and
found 1t as we had left 1t In the afternoon.
We then took our cents In the front room,
with OUT faces toward an opsn door leading
into another room. The house was as quiet
as death. The mate held the dark lantern,
With the slide on, snd we each held revol.
vers Ia our hands. After We had been there
psrhsp5 half an hour we heard q noise
Ike one makes In slightly pulling chair
nearer table. a moment later the chair
10 the room In which we we're fscing seem
ed to be picked up and set down again.
Then we hesrd footsteps, and pretty soop
the room resounded Rito noises. Tbs scant
furniture, it seemed, vas being thrown pel
nell, and the racket became unesrthiy.
Now is tho time said the mate, in whis-
per. at that no turned on the dark lantern and
sprsng into the room. The moment he entered
it the noises ceased and 1t was vacant siore than
that, tho furniture stood just as We had loft il.
we examined tho doors and windows, and they
were AS we had left them. The Dor, loo. wss
aminee, and no Cpening WAS there. Before We
had finished our examination noises began up
stairs and in other rooms. A dozen men with
heavy boots seemed to DO running up and down
the stairway. With our dark lantern We ran up
stairs and through the severa rooms, but could
sec nothing. whenever we would enter room
the noises would seem to be in the next room-or
all over the house, for that matter except in that
one room. To make the story ghort, Va remained
in the house until daylight and the noises con-
tinued all night. We chased from one room TO
another until almost completely exhausted,
and not once did We catch sight OF any living OBJ
ject. We couldn't have been mistaken in the
noises. 1t couldn't have been imagination, for
neither of us was excited or frightened. Those
noises were made in the house, but what by is
the greatest mystery o. my life"- Indianapolis
Journal