The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-02
GHOSTS OF MEXICO.
Il slishmnn Has strange Experience
while Sleeping in An Old MOnas-
From the Mexican Herald.

pAhE "a MI OAu
terry.
From the Mexican Herald.
Mexico is rich in spooks The city
needs a historian to investigate the
mysterious houses that abound in the
old quarters of the town. The traveller
who leaves the railroad and takes the
unbeaten track will probably encoun-
ter many curious experiences. OF
course the old women tales that cir
culate round the small villages are too
fun of superstition to be believed, yet
there is no smoke without fire. Those
people who have Travelled very much
in the republic are full of reminis-
cences of queer places in which they
We're obliged to stop for the night, and
the uncomfortable time they spent
there. Certainly some of the old
ruined monasteries that travellers are
Obliged to stop in are enough to make
the most hardened disbeheVer in the
supernatural nervous. Parts of Mex
leo remind the traveller of Kiplings
haunted Indian bungalow, except that
many of the so-called haunted houses
in the republic are made of adobe.
The City of Mexico contains a fine
old colonial mansion that is supposed
to have "spooks' In the San Juan
RAN6As AAiN oApl sues mat one DfOIn-
er was murdered there in the old CO.
lonial times, and at night the sound
of scuffie and the noise of body
falling downstairs can be heard. 1t
would take a large volume to contain
the history of the ghosts that walk
the different quarters of the city 1t
Is in the country that the richest ma
tertal for a collection can be found and
phe one given here occurred in san
Cristobal, In Chiapas.
A young Englishman, who has now
oeen dead for some years, went to
Chiapas for his health, accompanied
by his wife and little boy Owing to
circumstances that do not bear any
interest to the story, the young man
an question lost his money, and was
Obliged to leave his wife and boy in
the village of San Cristobal for some
time. He left them in a modern
house, but owing to circumstances be-
yond their control, they were Obliged
TO- seek another adobe, and residences
oelng very scarce, they sought refuge
an the rooms of an old Monastery.
PROBABLY the first monastery on the
American continent, as there is no
doubt that 1t was built by Las Casas.
the good apostle of the Indians
Though the building covered an enor-
nous extent of ground, II was mostly
IN ruins. The fine old college that had
spread nght on the American conti-
nent had fallen completely into
desuetude. 1t was kind of no mans
land. However, the wife and child
found shelter and "A decent room
When they first occupied the room
they found that the next room was &c
cupied by an old lady and her dauRh-
Ter For some reason which they ala
not dare TO explain, they left very
shortly, and the young woman ana
child were left alone. The husband
returned about this time. and agreed
that 1t was better TO stop here than
encounter the bad night air of the
tropics by sleeping out Of doors he
SIDES Il must be remembered that San
Cristobal Is 1000 feet above the level
or the sea, and the nights are therefore
cold. The young woman, "a typical
healthy English girl. entertained no
fears about spooks. she had Travelled
a great deal and took things as they
came.
The first night after the departure
Of the lady and her daughter from The
other room. the Englishman retired 40
bed "a an early hour. being very fired
after having been ON horseback am dav
iiie wife and child were sleeping. ne
had hardly been sleeping an hour when
he ihN current W cold air paes
ihfongh thr room. llo opened hls eyes
app. looking across the room discern
~ ln ihe dim light "a very tam figure.
no Thought hefk0niuf d. him.
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