The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-08

the painter was convinced that he did
actually see what he described there
was not. in the judgment of the COM
mittee, any doubt whatever.
One of the most interesting ghost
stories in the collection of the Psychi-
cal Research society is furnished by
Lord Tennyson. 1t relates an adven-
ture of Mrs. Pennee of St. Anne de
Beaupre, Quebec She says: 1T was
in 1856 that my husband took me to live
at q house near CharlottetoWn, Prince
Edward Island. AS soon as we estab-
lished ourselves there we began hearing
strange noises. There were shrieks,
which would grow fainter or louder, as
if some one was being chased around
the house, but always eliminating in a
regular volley of shrieks sobs, means,
and half uttered words, proceeding
from beneath a tree that stood at a lit
tie distance from the dining room win
dow. 1t was in February, 1857, that the
first apparition was seen. About .
o'clock, Mrs. NJ, q guest in the house.
was awakened by a bright light which
perVaded her room. She saw Wo-
man standing by the fireplace. In her
left arm was a young baby, and with
her right hand she was stirring the
Just then the figure turned her face
toward Mrs. M, disclosing the features
of a young woman, with an anxious,
pleading look on her face. Mrs. Nj. took
notice of a little check shawl that was
crossed over her bosom. The following
spring l myself saw the ghost. One
night, my little daughter being sick, ]
had her bed wheeled in beside mine.
About midnight l got up to give her
some medicine, and was feeling
for the matches, when she called my
attention to a brilliant light shining
under the door, / threw open the door
and found myself face to face with a
woman. She had a baby on her left
arm, check shawl thrown over her
BOSOM and all around her shone a
bright light. Her look at me was one
of entreaty-ag oniZing entreaty. She
did not enter the room, but moved
across the staircase, vanishing into
the opposite wall. left Prince Edward
island in 1861 and went to Quebec. In
1877 I happened to return to the island.
One day I was at the bishops resi-
dence When the parish priest came in
with a deter in his hands. The letter
was from the wife of the owner of the
house to deliver them from the ghost
of a woman with a baby in her arms,
who had appeared several times"
One of the most interesting of the
haunted house stories comes from
Hammersmith, England. The narrator
a lady, says: When we went TO hive
there we had never heard a word of its
being haunted Almost Immediately
after taking possession all the members
of the household complained of hear
ing noises Windows were violently
shaken and mysterious steps were
heard about the house. l myself fTe-
uuently had doors opened for me before
entering a room, as if hand had
hastily turned the handle and thrown
them open. Occasionally we heard
sounds as of someone sobbing, and
deep. long signs were audible at all
times of the day. Sometimes l would
hear a sound Of stitching in the room
next to my bed room, as if some very
hard and coarse work was being done,
and then a sound as of something being
dragged across the floor. l got to
have a feeling which was most I'M
comfortable at times. as of being
watched. This went on for about five
years. In October, 1879, about 8 o clock
one afternoon, I was sitting with three
Of my children in the dining room
The door opened and in walked a figure
Of a woman. 1t went uD to the table,
stood there a second or two, and then
turned to 60 out again, but before
reaching the door she seemed to dis
solve away. she was a gray, short
woman, apparently dressed in gray
muslin. None of the children saw her
During the next two months the same
figure was seen by two servants. One
saw 1T in the afternoon in daylight or
the staircase, and the other in the
nursery about 10 D. M. The following
summer, in July, 1 was awakened il
the night 10y a scream of terror from
my little girl, then 6 years old, who
slept in d room opening out Of ours
Her father ran to her, when she said.
oh. l aWoke and saw a little, wicked
looking, old. gray woman standing a
the foot of the bed, looking at 6le witt
a horrid face and then suddenly she
went down through the floor. and
screamed out In the autumn of 1871
l was awakened one night by loui
sobs; the curtains of the bed were
pulled back and my hair was pulled
Another night 1 was startled by the
appearance of a brilliant light in my
room"
Not only are ghosts of animal:
sometimes seen, if Northumberland
statements are to be believed, bu
horses and dogs are occasionally
Pearsall Smith tells of something very
remarkable that happened to neigh
Dor Of his own. a prominent lawyer o.
Philadelphia. He had parted in anger
from a friend. who later went to ITALY
for his health. The quarrel between
them was very bitter Some time af
terward, while camping in the wilds o
the Adircndacks. the lawyers horse
showed symptoms Of alarm. 1t Wa!
much excited and refused to go ahead
The rider was trying to persuade TIT
animal. when there appeared befOr,
him the phantom or simulacrum Of TIT
friend with whom he had quarreled
Blood was pouring from the mouth o
the ghost, which, in an interval of tn,
effusi0n, cried out, 7 have nothing
/ against youl" Soon afterward h,
heard that the man had died almos
at that very hour in consequence of {
/ hemorrhage from the lungs.
Mrs. Judd, whose sister is an asso
] ciate member of the society, furnishe
q story. She says: My grandmothe.
was a tall, stately. handsome woman
even at an advanced age. She died a
SO. My sister and myself had Away:
slept in room adjoining hers, and
for want of space in her apartment
there stood by our bedside a large old
fashioned clock, which had been pre-
/ sented to our grandmother on her wed
ding day. She was extremely fond O
this clock and she insisted upon GU
, leaving our bedroom door unlocked a
night so that she might consult tn,
! old timeDiece when she arose each
I rl47nf-n Wa often oppynI N-,,. cIa