Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-28
THEY HAVE COME BACK FROM SHADOVLAND
These Spirits Haunt the Homesof the Living and Invest Ten
porary Environments of Life with All the
Terrors of Unfathomed Death

It was much the fashion little while
ago with certain so called progressive
persons to decry the telling oil geost
stories. They did only harm, said these
wiseacres-filled the young idea Win all
manner Of iearsome ruboish-and, De.
sides, they had been quite shut out OF
intelligent belief by the swift aud sud
den march OF science. Clearly, there
were not. there never had been, any
such things as ghosts. The tales were
all imagination, or else trlckery OF tue
baIdest sort. They were al insult to
nineteenth century intelligence, which
was to grow and broaden until there
would be left nc unilIumiued place.
So the wlseAcres! Now the end Of
the century OF light approaches and tht
truly wise are admitting one TO another
that much Of It's promise was but nash
light; that truer illumination has but
made palmer the existence OF depths
and heights In mind aud matter aud
spirit truly abyssmal Men so cool
headed and careful as Mr.. Stead and
Hon. Arthur Baliour give open aid atd
counsel to societies Of psychical re-
search. They 90 further, ana them.
selves collate aud compare records oil
strange happenings.
So much by way OF proem TO this grist
OF ghost tales, all OF them set down from
the lips OF narrators who were either
witnesses of them or actors therein.
Let me remise further by saying that
while have never had the least fear oil
ghosts, nv attitude toward them, up 10
certain occurrence, detailed later, was
neither belief nor unbellef, but an open
mindedness wholly impartial. Ibid not
scOff-nether had | any experimental
knowledge. Schoolmates or playmsteS
| had none; my nurse was strictly FOR
hidden TO tell me anything that might
make me afraid, so | grew up TO years
OF discretion with only vague general
understanding that some folks some
where in the world proiessed to have
seen the strange thing called ghost
A TENNESSEE TALE.
Ghosts are but human essences, there
fore Individual and idiosyncratic. Nat
urally then ghosts OF the redmen are
given to fighting aud fierce reyenges.
In Tennessee county, lying along 0oth
banks Of the mberland river there Is
an Indian burying ground, so big and
full OF skulls as 10 bear out the tradition
which makes 10 the scene OF greal
battle between the Creeks and Choctaws
The battle came of before white men
set foot there but the pioneers have
handed down tale OF how the remain
der of the defeated tribe took refuge
! in cave so high up the the face OF the
river bluff II could only DO reached by
pole ladders, made by chOpplng TO shorl
spurs the boughs OF tall slender trees.
Once they were up, the ladders were
thrown down-apd with arrows and
fragments OF rocks the besIeged KEEP
the besiegers at bay. But a subtieI
enemy, famine, assailed them.
There was water In the cave, so for
week they waited. watching, the while
those below them in tue valley builC
great death pyre. AT last .'ounG
chief roaming about, found an ou'let
which led OBVIOUSLY to the upper world
a mile away. At duck the beleaguereC
stole through lt-only to lind themselye
in the hands OF their foes. They were
put 10 death next day-then the victor
broke camp, going Dorthward In search
OF fresh worlds to conquer. But tnel
never came back-so much the tall
affirms-and there are the skeletons anC
beads and shells aud pottery, TO bacH
up the legend-which is told but a.
the necessary preamble to what fol
lows
PURCHASED THE BURYINa GROUNDS
A small farm house had been bull