Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-21
Ghosts Again Active
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fatal inquisitiveness a grim Bluebeardlsh
tale is told.
She tried to see the CLAIMS mystery
which was supposed to be secreted in a
portion of the castle TO which only the earl
and his heir had access. Yet a more dread
full fate that that Bluebeard prepared for
prying Fatima, befell this poor old lady,
who suddenly disappeared. Her husband
announced her death, but the gossips said
he had had her tongue cut out, her hands
cut on and placed her in exile In a remote
town in the Italian mountains.
This. Of course. was to prevent any reve-
lation as to the nature Of Glamls' awful
secret and when at last the wretched
woman really did die she was struggled
into a tomb in Westminster Abbey. AS
this tragedy took place at least 100 years
ago. 1t sounds like fairy tale to modern
ears; nevertheless. Dean Stanley did I'M
earth the remains Of a countess Of Strath-
more. a pathetic skeleton without any
hands.
About twelve months ago another rumor
relating TO CLAIMS percolated through Eng
land and stirred up discussion about the
mystery. This time a laborer, coming
homo in the dead OF night, saw a group In
the churchyard near the castle burying
somebody or something by
The struggling moonbeam's misty light
And lanterns dimly burning.
OF course, the laborer promptly made a
record for 'cross-country sprinting, being a
plain man with no taste for psychioal re-
search and confessing to a most unscien-
tihc belief in ghosts in general and the
CLAIMS ghost in particular.
However, word Of these midnight doings
is the mystery removed from the gloomy
castle, but that its occupants and owners
are far more genial ana apparently at ease
than ever before. Stll, with the mystery
tucked away az last in the churchyard.
Glamis has other ghosts to fall back upon.
Last winter, for instance. while a large
dinner party was taking PLACE az the castle
and while the guests were gathering in the
great hall, a nine OF diamonds, a card OF
singular nl-omen for the strathmores,
futtered down from the osk-beamed ceiling
to the earpeted door. The present lord Of
CLAIMS hastily put his foot on the card in
an attempt 70 conceal it,
Eventually he was seen to toss It into
the fire before leading the way 20 table.
The guests who had witnessed the incident
discreetly bided their time TO add this as
substantiating proof OF the fact that Glamis
Is stnl haunted.
To refer 10 phantoms OF mysteries is
decidedly bad form when under the ancient
roof OF the StrathmOres; yet so oppressive
is the influence the house exeTts on some
persons that one pretty wholesome and
very admired American woman. who was
a member OF a house party, left after one
night spent in the ancient stronghold. She
Was not nervous by nature, she insisted.
but the atmosphere Of CLAIMS and the odd
noises she heard during her one night
there convinced her OF the wisdom OF a
prompt return 10 her prosaic hotel In Lon
don.
She did not mind an Intermittent ghost.
she confessed, and she had enjoyed her
stay in Arundel castle, one OF the homes
OF the duke OF Norfolk, where the family
ghost dutifully turns up at intervals 70
apprise the household OF an approaching
bereavement. Among the dukes tenants
few can be found who do not cherish a