The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-04-04

young lady from GOochland Count,
was visiting the home. A day or two
after her arrival the young lady in ,
greatly agitated frame of mind tolG
her hostess that the spirit of the form
er owner of the house had appeale ed tC
her and told her that treasure was
buried near the house, describing the
location with utmost exactness.
Tho lady could hardly describe to
the agent the scene which followed.
She said the spirit of the man who
had owned the place Mt once sprang
! upon the young woman and it seemed
that he would kill her. Her eyes pro-
tuded from her head and she was al
most strangled when the spirit released
| her.
~ day or two after, the spirit, which
was not visible to the young lady, led
her to the brink of the well at the
back OF the house and she was on the
point of walking blindly in when one
of the family to whom the spirit was
plalnly VISIBLE, seized her and dragged
her back.
On Thursday morning of last week,
according to the story which was told
the agent by the young man, he dis
covered that the spirit was on the point
OF sprlngng upon the little baby in the
cradle when the father seized it and
dragged it away.
Many other stories of the visits of
the spirit were told. The tenant of
the property said he always told them
that II they would leave the premises
forever he would cease to trouble them.
lie vowed that he could not rest IN his
grave SO long as Northern people lived
in his home.
The agent laughed at all these
stories, OF course. and finally induced
his visitors to go back to their home.
they mad been gone but a few minutes.
when they returned III greater agita-
tlon than before. They declared that
the spirit of the ovcrscer of the former
owner OF the property had met them
some distance from the house and
warned them that if they entered the
mansion again they would be torn IN
pieces by his employer.
The man and women were in a state
OF great terror. The gentleman de-
clared thai he would never enter the
house again. The agent tried TO dis
suade him from his purpose to desert
his pretty home, but in vain. The
upshot of the whole matter was that
the agent loaned the gentleman $3.50,
and when the shadows of night fell
about the old mansion the aged moth
CT, her son and wife, and their child
rem were being taken rapidly away
from the scene of what was TO them a
most terrible experience.
The flight occurred on Thursday.
That night the old house was deserted.
Friday morning the agent employed a
man to sleep IN the premises. Bright
and early the next morning the agent
went out to see how how his man had
spent the night. The latter declared
he had never rested better. If he was
disturbed last night nothing was hcar,
from it.
While going around The premises
the agent found that the occupants of
the property had dug several deep
holes IN the cellar searching for treas
ure, and pit, perhaps forty feet in
depth, had been sunk in the yard, also
put down IN search Of buried gold or
silver.
The family were all spiritualists.
They had some kind of machine, used
to help them talk to visitants from the
spirit world. The whole story is in
every way most remarkable and wholly
incXplicnble. A groat many white
persons are interested. The darkies
CT the neighborhood ale most wrought
up. One negro woman is said to have
succeeded in getting hundred dollars
from the owners of the property under
promises to drive away the ghosts.