The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
GHOST That LOCKS DOORS.
House where q MiSer Died Pronounced u
he Really Haunted.

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LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 2e.-Members OF the
local psychology club ave e investi-
eating a haunted house up in Saunders
county sixteen miles north Of this city
and have concluded that it is a genuine
case Of a disembOdied spirit returning to
earth.
The house is located on a farm about
four miles from Valparaiso. IL is owned
and until recently was occupied by a family
nsmed Van SAINT. Mrs. Van SAINT was a
school teacher for years and says she ISN'T
saperstitious.
The farm belonged years ago to a man
repute1 to be q miser. One night he was
murdered by robbers.
For Ave years after the Van SAINTS moved
in no sign of spooks appeared. Then
things happened. Stories reached Lincoln
and the club interested in psychical TO
search sent a committee headed by Mrs.
l.. ". Billingsley. wife Of q lawyer, to
investigate Meanwhile the Van SAINTS
moved out.
We talked With Mrs. Van SAINT and her
neighbour says Mrs. Billingsley, and
We have no hesitancy in ~pronouncing IL
q case worthy Of being reported and placed
in the records Of the Society for Psychioal
Research.
The hrst manifestation occurred one
summer evening when the two Van SAINT
girls anne homo from church. They had
driven. each with . male escort, to VAL
paraiso.
when the younger daughter reached
homo he found her parents had retired
and the screen door looked. when her
mother responded she expressed surprise
that the door was looked. She distinctly
remembered leaving II unlocked.
she requested the girl to leave IL I'M
looked for the older sister. She did 90,
but whom the latter returned half an hour
later she found the door securely fastened
The screens were fastened with the ordinary
hook and eye, which cannot be locked save
by design.
After that as many times as the doors
were left unlocked they would be found
locked, and when left open they would
close. Efforts were MADE to prop them
open, but the doors would calmly close,
pushing aside the obstacle.
One large inner door was found locke
30 frequently that IL had to be removed
entirely to prevent annoyance. Finally
the family ceased to try to prevent the
mystic power from being exercised upon
the doors.
NeAb btTHuHo LHntn pidy6u dDOuJ the
house at night. At times the whole house
would be flooded with light, the source Of
which could not be traced.
Next what seemed to be a ghost would
come to the place on horseback. He could
be distinctly seen to put up the horse at
the barn, walk heavily toward the house,
enter and begin the work Of undressing.
He would breathe heavily as though
completely tired out, he would walk about
yawning and making other noises. Ex-
cept on two or three occasions the form
or outline Of q man was never seen.
when seen at all It was a dim, white,
shadowy form which would shortly vanish
upward. Visitors from a distance observed
similar phenomena. One dark night
horses feet and carriage wheels distinctly
sounded in the lane, and on other occasions
phantom carriages filed with dim figures
were seen.
These phenomena were so we'll authenti-
GATED that there can be no classification Of
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