The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-03
MYsTEaIous MANrEsrArlonA
The Puzzlinu Things That Happen 10
Some Pnople.


acquainted with a family who are sus
oeptible to a certain warning aud
once had the uncanny experience OF
hearing It himself
One night a child lay iIL In the
room next to & the governess slauL
On the following morning she spoke
OF a tapping at her wisfew during
the night and was surprised 10 see
that the father OF the child was yioleni-
" affected by her remark. The child
died early on the following mornrg.
Some years afterwards the writer.
in company With a member OF this
family and some other friends. was
seated in a room playing carus.
Suddenly he heard three distinct
taps at a large French window whicl
opened into the garden. Looking up,
his gaze met that OF his frlends,
and he saw sudden rallor come into
the lattcrs face. Aftertard hc mon
toned the occurrance. and received
the reply that It was the death tap
he had heard. Surely enough, a tele-
gram arrived on the following tay
to say chat his friends Grandmother
was dead.
Another instance occurred in Tue
writer's own family lady dreamed
that she was journeying 10 the wes.
CT England AT Swindom she left tue
train and waited in the waiting room
until branch connections arrived.
Suddenly she looked up at the clock
ard saw that it registered 7l5. At
tnat moment a dense blackness came
over the scene and she remembered
nothing more.
The next day the news arrived tbat
her mother had died at 7:f5 that same
morning in her home in the west OF
England
Life is fun of little incxpliosbl,
mysteries. They occur every day. an6
are passed by as being merely ordin.
airy. Whenever the conversation turns
on telegraphy or the occult sciences
there is always some one with a story
OF tha mysterious TO tell
Ahgut ten years ago. on a lsrge
open tract of land in the north OF
London (now fortunately covered with
red brick vilas) a number OF boys
were playing cricket. Suddenly Chore
/ can,o a loud b,,,,,,,,fu.r ,,,.f., ~. -
combined d1oning OF thousands Of
bees, and a great stone larger than
mans fist whizzed across the centcs
OF the pitch and embedded itself IN
bank. Almost immediate 10 was
followed by another and then a taird
Although they waited in hiding for
some time there was no repetition "
the mysterious missiles The question
then arouse: Where could they nave
come from? The nearest house was
quite 400 yards away and a machine
to have sent these large stones whirt
ing at such a frightful pace over thiA
distance woulo be rather an eXtraoi d..
nary article OF furniture Tor a subir
ban villa. SO the cause OF this remark.
able occurance yet requires explaua.
tion.
In the same district, few years
back, four young men were seated in
= room playing whist Suddenly nst
after midnight, the door, which l1d
been latched. opened 5lowly uatl il.
lad reached its fullest limit.
In surprise the players looked up
but no one was standing IN the door
way. Then, ere one OF them coa,1
move the door slowly closea itself
again. Immediately ons OF the youns
men jumped up, pulled the door open
and stared up and down tae hall ba;
there was absolute silence and no one
about.
Some years ago gentleman u5
seated at a table busily writing. Al
the moment he was alone in the house.
Suddenly he heard the patter Of sest
outside the door and then the sounl
OF dog barking Going outside the
room he saw, to his surprise. thar nis
dog had found lts way from the gar
den into the house. ana for some rea.
son was violently barking
Crash! The room behinu ljm was
suddenly IN darkness and smell ~
escaping gas prevailed tne air Dirsc--
I lv he understood what had l,aDDanri