The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-15
Farmington is excited.

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Pennington has a ghost sensation
which is stirring up the city, which
said matter is similar to those which
are occasionally heard in co n.ry towns.
On farm ait Pennington live a
family named Hess, and it is at the
Hess home the Wraiths of the depart
ed are supposed to be getting in their
work. 1t isn't generally believed that
spirits are tangible enough to throw
rocks at anyone but in tbs case the
rule has been broken and rocks are
not only thrown, but they hit people
and, While no one has been hurt,
"dornicks'' fairly fill the air when the
shades, on whatever they are, get into
action.
IL is stated that after sable night has
thrown her black mantle over the face
OF earth, on certain portions Of the
Hess farm it is not safe for anyone TO
go with a member OF the Hess family
to these certain portions. because rocks
p omiscuous y pernleate the atmosphere.
1t has been Tried by several people and
the town is wrought up over ut.
The business has been going on for
some time and many Of the people UP
there rave gone ghost hun-ing from
time t. time
No pale, shadowy forms have been
seen; no headiess horse7nan has ridden
his black charger across the fields; the
skeleton hands OF men VINO are sup
posed TO rise UP from their graves and
walk the earth after sundown have
been conspicuous for their absence: no
wall OF the lost has smote the ear but
chunks of tTachyte, grey granite,
porphyry and other solid matter have
whlzzed around the ears of the investi-
II,
hairs have stood on end, like the Quill
upon the rretful porcupine; their young
e4ood has had frosts, commotion has
seized their souls and with the feeling
OF terror done a three hands round
hSure to the accompaniment of fying.
debris.
Accompanying the stone throwing
there have been percepeible electric
shocks, say those who have witnessed
these remarkable demonstrations
whether this latter statement be true
or not is a question. 1t is the opinion
OF the sensible people up there that all
the electricity business is a result of the
imagination of those who have declared
they felt them. When a person is scared
MS or her,-as the case may be-hair
VIII stand and a cold shiver wiz chase
HseH up and down the spinal column.
SO this may be the sensation which ha :
The news Of these ghostay FRANKS cir
cuIa0ed among the good people up there
from nelghbor to neighbor and many
OF them decided to investigate. Parties
were organized and a search made +or
the spirits. The ground where the
shade OF the supposed unhappy and
rock throwing departed does the work
IS covered with brush, etc, and a ghost
IS hard thing TO chase under All tne
circumstances. So all the parties hsva
met with hard luck. 10
one OUTFIT, consisting of nearly fiftv
persons, went out one NIGHT hut
neglected to take anyone of 5be
hess family along and as a ra-
suit tnere were no rocks thrown. Who
ever TINS ghost is, he, she or it has a
SnuuSe against the Hess people. Anv-
oiie can roam around the farm and have
40 rear II he be alone, but let Hass
accompany him and the specter i 1I1Is
showers of missiles. --''i 70
Inc rocks seem to come frorn ma
pace IN particular, accorIino to 90
counts. one may hear a st91xa v,b.g-
zing past him from the front and ge+
~ nlt the next instant by a. pebble rr9s,,
tHe rear. Het may evade a stone from
slIe north by northeast and SET one
~ 0iu enc direction of the southern. cross
as ne stradghtens up.
A few nights ago a yolner ,,,a,, or-,o,
HmlSeii with doubte-barrelle ,,bot-
sun, loaded for bear, elephants ~
SIioSts, and went out as brave as a
non. He was going to have ghost for
breakfast If it took a leg. He wan
aefed around in the brush looking far
shrouded forms 10 shoot at but nary
d snrouded form did he see. But he
t t one OF the family with him and was
oo4u 10 p4de his time. He did. Zip.
Ss d Dounybrook biscuit past his
mead He Waded after the location in
front where the same evidently car ~
from, with both barrels of his fnsats
cooked, and got a beautiful specimen
OF llfne for9natitn of a pound weight
between the shoulders.
he wasn't angry. Not at all. He
was just scared.
He fired both barrels in the air and
he, and the Hess he had with him
made tracks with the toes pointing in
the direction of the house. The ghost
presumably mad a good shady laugh
over the foot race.
up there do not believe there is arlv-
tning in the story. But the supersti
uoUs are scared to death, almost. Thew
VIII not have it any other way than
mat the unHestful wrath of some one
VINO has gTudge against the Hess
folks, is doing ALL this monkey business
me former are talking of making q
raid ON ghosts some night and taking
all the Hess family with them SO the
spirits VIII have just cause and provo
caGion for getting action. Then if the
apparition is captured, it will doa1ht
les be better for he, she or it to have
remained in the place from whence he.
she Cur ut came from. The ground Wherp
the presumed ghost does its work has
oeen trespasSed upon a great deal.
much TO the annoyance of the owners.
ana this may account for the manifes-
taflons. 1t was supposed at one time
that a woman who had some trouble
with the family was the author. but
she was found to be in Idaho. and as
woman cannot throw a, stone any
way, this theory was disproyed.
OF course the matter has caused a
great deal of talk among certain par
ties, but those who are free from the
chains which superstition uses to bind
its devotees, assert that a human
agency is employed in this rock throw
ing.
Ghosts, according to tradition do al
most everything in the way of travel
ling Imaginable. They fly through the
air on dark horses and skip across
country ON foot: they linger ON dark
stairwags and down in wine cellars;
they amble up and down on old piazzas
and sit crosslegged on monuments and
nlaalsoleuns but no ghost ever written
of has been known to throw rocks. If
there is a ghost doing this, he, she or
it should be voted out of the Ghosts
Union, or fined, or something of that
sort.
There is STORY told of a. ghost of
the Niglef eenfh Earl of leicester or