Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-04-27
GHOST STORIES.
Related By the Travelling Men in a
Smoke Talk.
Some Hair Rising Accounts Of the Super
natural From all Quarters.

the nervous man a Shudder.
At an Augusta hotel the other night,
they fell to talking of ghosts, and
though all stayed through the whole
of the stories, the Drawer ones sug-
gested that the others stayed merely
because they did not dare to leave.
There were two western drummers'
and their stories were of the hair rals-
ing sort.
West of Grand Rapids about five
miles, there is a veritable Sleepy Hol-
low,'" began the first gentleman, Ihe
rough road at that point drops into a
deep gully. The hills on either side
are covered with dense woods and the
bushes and underground extend out
close to the roadbed. BY day the hol-
low is dismal and gloomy, and at night
so the old country folk say-the spir-
its of darkness hold uncanny revels
there. 1t is almost impossible to per
suade the farmers to venture through
there after nightfall.
"One night we'll known Grand Rap
ids doctor of aesthetical tendencies was
called into the country beyond the hol-
low. After tending to his patient he
shocked the pious farmers by his god
less talk. When he wanted to start
oIl inci ted
that he should not go; the spirits of the
hollow would surely catch him. she
said The doctor laughed, mounted his
horse and started off.
AT the head of the hill going down
into the uncanny valley the doctor S
horse stopped. The doctor urged him
on again. but the horse was trembling
all over. 1t was SO dark the rider could
see nothing. There was not sound to
be heard. He whipped his horse and
the animal went on though it was in a
tremor of nervousness. At the foot of
the hill the horse stopped again, and as
it did so strong arms grabbed the doc
tor and tore him out of the saddle. At
the same instant the horse bounded
ahead.
The doctor scarcely knows how he
got through the hollow that night. The
arms released him as soon as he was
on the ground, and he started to run
after his horse. Something struck him
on the back time and again and once
he was tripped and fell to the ground.
Tired and sore. he tramped all the
way to Grand Rapids At his barn door
he found his horse patiently waiting.
There are other tales of the dark hol-
low. but this one is fairly characters-
tic"
There is another story from Grand
Rapids, about haunted house Of the
regular graveyard blue light. Tom Saw
yer kind" said the second drummer.
Ii is near one of the big cemeteries.
The house is not occupied. for very
good reasons. The ghosts will not let
tenants stay in it. There is not a
sound window in the house. Every
time the owner puts it into repair and
puts glass into the windows just as
regularly an unseen hand smashes
every pane. \ number of families have
spent one or more nights in the house,
but the terrible noises heard We're too
much for them. and they We're forced
to beat Il retreat. 1t is said the former
owner of the land expressed strong
given to the cemetery, and a certain
sum of money be spent for tomb for
dsregarded, and the money which he
wished used for a tomo was spent in
the ghost is just playing even with his
ungrateful heirs
Perhaps some of you remember the
ghost story that was spoiled in North
Arson a year or more ago" remarked
another gentleman.
There was a vacant house about
four miles north of North Anson, and
every night at a certain hour, the peo-
pie below the house would see a
light at certain window The
news quickly spread, and soon
the whole country in that section
was wildly excited over the haunted
house. For several days the mystery
was unexplained. A man suddenly
found that the light was but the re-
Election of the headlight on the engine
of the train that was going up the val
ley at that hour. Although the engine
was far away, its light reflected from
afar."
''At another time" continued the
gentleman, there was ghost about a
cemetery in South Norridgewock. A
gentleman who lived across the street
from this cemetery. said he saw a
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