The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-14
SPOOKS IN MAINE.
Lumbermen Frightened Out of Their
Wits by Ghostly Apparitions

Lumbermen Frightened Out of Their
Wits by Ghostly Apparitions.
From the Ne0 York Sun.
BANGOR, Feb. 10.-Either the Maine
woods are full of spooks this winter or it is
high time for some of the lumbermen TO
change their drink. More than one camps
crew has been frightened half TO death by
the appsrition of white buck on the tote
road at midnight, while others have seen
white-robed figure peTched on the shoulders
of an enormous moose, just before the camp
door. The men employed by +. G. Rob-
inSon, In the depth of the Aroostook
forest, declare that genuine ghost, dressed
i'll pearl gray, wanders through that region.
Some say that it is the spirit of hunter
who was killed by a companion many years
ago, while others believe that it is the ghost
of woodsman who was crushed to death
by falling pine aud whose grave may be
seen On the bank of the Aroostook. Be-
tween the pearl gray ghost, the Indian
devils and the whisky struggled over from
New Brunswick there are lively times in
the AroostOok camps.
Elliot Clark of Prospect witnessed sight
one night last week which caused lis cheek
to pale and his hair to rise. He was cutting
cordwood on the steep banks of Half Moon
| stream, a small tributary of the lower PEN
obscot, and he worked IN close proximity to
the village buryipg ground. The weather
was very cold on Saturday when Clark
reached Searsport with load of wood, and
be thought that it would be good scheme
to buy a gallon of rum for use in case
of sudden attack of the grip. On
the way home he sampled the rum. 1t was
very good for SearsD0rt rum, and he took
a few more nips. 1t was past O'Clock in
the evening when he reached the scene of
his chopping, the moon had not risen and
the W 1ods were white and ghostly in their
| mantle Of snow. He was about to turn off
| into the road that leads TO his home when he
heard a scurrying noise on the snowy hills
| top of the cemetery. Looking uD he beneld
Il long, black form dart out from among the
trees, and slide at terrific speed down tho
steep incline into Half Moon stream. The
| first object was followed soon by several
others, all sliding at express speed where it
| would be death for any hum N to go. Clark
gaped in terror at the spectacle and then
| started for home, where he related
a horrible tale of the dead
| rising from their graves and starting on a
toboggan slide in their collins down the
steep bluff into Half Moon stream. He de-
| scribed the scene so graphically that his son,
| Ernest, took the rife and started out to see
what had stirred up the cemetery. When
| he returned, two hours later he brought
the pelts of four big offers, the largest more
| than 6 feet in length, and remarked that the
| toboggan sliding of the dead villagers was a
| spiritual mirage produced by his fathers
| visit TO Searsport.
| The spooks of the West branch are quite
| active and clipper this season, particularly
the one with the bloody ak and the one
that drives an impossible load of logs behind
six white horses. There are lumbermen
| who have always been afraid to cross
Mooseheed lake at night, and since the
| recent fatalities there the passage of the
! great ice road is more than ever a grewsome
| journey.