The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-09
REMOVING A GHOST.
The story of a Man Who Moved Into
House That Was Said to BE
Haunted.

The story of a Man Who Moved Into
House That Was Said to BE
Haunted.
From the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
1.-THE strangest experience I ever had
in anything like haunted house." said
a man who delights in telling weird
tales, twas over here on the coast a
few years ago, when l. was making an
experiment in the business of raising
terrapin There was a house which
remained vacant a greater part of the
time on account of the many ghost
stories told about it. 1t was a fine
place, and / concluded to rent it and
take my chances on the ghost propo-
sition / moved in from another place
on the coast not very far from the
haunted house Among the things
carried along with me was an old trunk
which had not been put to any impor-
tant use for some time. 1t was looked
upon as so much rubbish. 1t had been
in an old clubhouse for some months.
The house we removed into was a
large. roomy place. with an upstairs of
considerable size. We decided to use
the upstairs part of the place for sort
of storage room for the old plumber
we naQ D1OuRnl WIFI us. <AIlOllS Olii-
err things we put the old trunk to which
l have referred in this part of the
house. 1t was put in back room, one
we rarely entered, because we had but
little use for the things we had placed
In 1t.
I'VE had not been in the place long
be fore we began to hear strange sounds
in the back room where we had placed
the old trunk. At first we did not pay
much attention to the sounds. In fact,
we allowed the thing to run on for
several months before making any sort
of investigation of the rather queer
noises we heard. In the meantime, the
thing had become a source of much an
noyance to me and members of my
little household. Every night we could
hear the same old scratch, scratch, in
the back room. l was alone one night
when / heard the same familiar sound
concluded that I would investigate
il. l did net want the members of my
family to know that 1 attached any
Importance whatever to the report that
the house was haunted, so l took adj
vantage of the fact that I was COM
pleteIy alone when 1 started out on
the gruesoIne mission. The sound was
coming from the back room. There was
no mistake about this fact. In a few
moments l found myself in the room
from which the sounds camel was sur
prised to know that my entering the
room had made no impression on the
ghost, and to tell the truth, / was just
a little inclined to resent the holiness
and effrontery of the mysterious thing
which had annoyed my folks and my
self for so long a time. l was deter
mined to rout the ghost, boot and
SPURS. / began to cruise around in the
room. had a candle in one hand. Di-
Getty found that the noise was COM
ing from the old trunk we had moved
into the house with us. There was
nothing to do but open tho trunk.
opened the trunk. There was the ghost.
/ laughed outright. There was an old
rusty terrapin we had put In the trunk
probably six months before when we
Were living at the other place. He had
been doing all tho scratching.
Il never said anything 10 my people
about the gruesome excursion ! made