Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-11-12

Dut. altDOugu the apsItAAEs "as
bright with the morning light,
there was not a soul visibIe; and,
what makes the phenomeuen seem
still more uncanny and inscrntable.
the hall door was found TO be lock.
ed and bolted.
cat another time, with lhe street
door of the house closely sbut, foot
falls were heard coming into the
down stair hall, as if person had
just entered from the street, clat.
tering down the corridor, and
sounding loudly on the Staircase,
leading to the chamber already
spoken Of. and they nxlks1 and
walked heavily, there, round and
round the room. for long while.
The people of the house fastened
stealthily to the apartment, un-
locked and threw open the door,
and peered within. But there was
nothing visible there except the
room, with its every day furniture,
and no evidence anywhere to indi-
cate that an article had been dis
turbed. The footsteps had stop
ped when the people laid hands on
the knob of the door.
"On several occasions the foot
steps abruptly Quilted the Main
street block, and were heard rest
lessly pacing the floors of rooms in
a house on Prospect street. Ga
one evening in particular the fam
lily there had a curious experience
with them. They had eaten sup
FER and were seated about their sit
ting room. Lights were burning
in all the downstairs apartments,
even in the halls. Ther heard the
locked front door opened and clos
ed with jar. Then they heard
steps, as of person with heavy
stiff shoes, coming along the hall
and on up the front stairs. A mo-
ment later the steps sounded in sew
eral of the cham bers, moving aim
lessly, it seemed, but with heavy
tread. The steps had moved SO
swiftly from the hall door to the
second floor chamber, and. more
over, had sounded SO qaoorly, that
several members of the sitting room
group dashed into the lighted hall
and thence up stairs into the apart
ment glowing with lamp light.
They found nothing unusual any
where, nothing by which they
might account satisfactorily for the
intrusion of the mysterious foot
steps into their house. And what
makes the manifestations seem the
more inexplicable is the fact that
not one of the persons who has had
to do with them is at all supersti-
tious or visionary.
"Miller Card, who is EMPLOYED
by the Bristol Press Com pany, says
that he was on the second floor of
the company's building at about II
O'Clock one night last week when
the intense stiffness of shop and
street was broken by the sound of
the street door opening and closing.
1t was shut with bang. Card was
dumfounded, for he knew the door
was locked. An instant later he
heard footsteps lumber through the
long hall and pass on into a rear
room in which the presses are kept.
Picking up his table lamp, he hur-
ried downstairs into the press room.
The strong light illuminated every
nook and Granny, but, although
Card searched all about the place,
he discovered no one there who
could have caused the footballs.
The street door was still locked.
"The same steps have been heard
once or twice in buildings in West
street, and it ia certainly wonder
full with what exactness all the
stories agree as to the manifesto
tions, even in respect Of minor and
trivial circumstances"
Another man doing business in
the haunted Main street block said !:
"These manifestations have been
going on for q long time in certain
quarter of the borough, but it was
only recently that they attracted
public attention. You see we've
rather got used to them now, for
they do no harm, so far as any one
can see. although am ready to ad-
nit that it's not exactly pleasant
to have people you can't see walk
ing up behind you even in day.
light. Just now q Main street bus.
mess man, who, though not exact
ly skeptical about the ghostly
sounds, would like to prove them
- ha oe earthly oricin ia tok;no