The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-28
REAL GHOST
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ing night, the neighbors focked TO the
/ residence and listened to the tales.
They were told how during the night
strange noises were heard how the
| head Of the house called ont and went
| outside while the noises continued; how
he took lantern to investigate and
! found the stove-wood he had chopped
the evening before pile itself up on a
landing of the steps leading to the
veranda; how he called out and then
/ got a revolver, while the wood CON
| tinued to leave one pile and build up
4 another. Then how stones few around
| the rooms. the clock fell over two or
| three times, and a picture of st. An
! thonv. hanging in the clothes closet,
/ strangely left its place on the wall
and was found lying on the floor and,
after being replaced, was again found
/ living on a table and a third time on
the bed. with a bunch Of keys, that
had left the bureau, alongside it. Then
a shae-horn whizzed through space
/ from a bedroom, through various open
doorways, until it fell against the wife,
standing BY the dining room table.
Then pans left their places on the top
of the cupboard and fell to the floor,
cup appeared to leap from another cup.
board and broke into pieces on the
floor several feet away. 4 knife came
through the air from the kitchen to
the dining-room and stuck in the top
of the table, and a corkscrew did like.
wise. while all the time the house stood
steady on the underpinning and there
was no way to account for the phe
nomena.
The bureau mirror swung back slow
lv. and the wife set it Alright; then it
moved back again, as did also small
mirror standing on the bureau. Three
times this took place before her eyes,
then she threw holy water on the face
of the mirrors and nothing more hap
pened to the bureau.
Then the benches began doing aero
battle stunts They overturned while
standing in the middle of rooms, and
even while Father Reginald was in the
house, a bench which he was looking
at but moment before was heard to
fall over. and on rushing to the door
the bench was seen by the priest to be
living on It's side. with nobody in the
room.
7t0ve-wood came mysteriously into
the house. although the windows were
tightly closed and the green shutters
latched In fact. the queerest stunts
were done by this mysterious visitor,
ghost or otherwise It was beyond the
comprehension of the inmates Of the
house. and the neighbors, aroused by
the unusual signs Of excitement, at
tempted to unravel the mystery.
While they talked, even, the ghost is
said to have INDUCED in a special ex-
hibition Stones which had been shown
the neighbors. and which were lying on
the floor or table. few through the air
and struck people The benches were
seen to topple over and the neighbors
went out to get breath of fresh air
and talk it over in the open.
An Advertiser reporter. who had
heard of the strange d0ings, went there
in the afternoon and found the yard
deserted save for the young Spanish
girl, who was sitting on the front steps.
The reporter was accompanied by
young man, formerly a Rapid Transit
conductor who had witnessed some of
the strange things of the forenoon.
They entered the diniDg-rOom AT took
a look around. There was table in
the center of the room, a refrigerator
near the wall and a chair nearby. An
open door looked into the kitchen. the
windows closed. The girl leaned
against this doorway and told of sev-
eraI things that had happened, ges-
ticulating in true Latin style. The
former conductor leaned against the
door on the verauda All were talking
over the strange things. As the re-
porter turned to look toward the bath
room a cakPpan came from some mvs-
FERROUS somewhere. struck the wall by
the refrigerator and fell changing upon
the floor. The object Of the missile
wheeled instantly, all goosefesh. as the
Young man at the door gave a yell and
started for the timber, while the girl
was ia the attitude OF shrinking away
from some object The reporter was
skepticaI. and while trying TO make
himself believe that ghost had had
hand in shying the pan, was inclined
also 10 the idea that the girl had some
thing 10 do with It's fight. IF she did.
however. she IS in line for an acrohatjc
career on the stage as lightning
artist
The 1ving dishpan was enough. how
ever. to induce the Advertiser man 10
SIT n the diningEoom and wait for some
new developments. He sat there with
the members Of the family and few
neighbors. all watching the lamp on
the table. the stone and Kitchen uten-
sis. but after half an hour waiting
he decided to leave. feeling that he was
a ho0d90.
At $50 the scribe called again with
friend but found that nothing new
had taken place, and then departed
but ten minutes later the ghost johester
got busy. First a brass faucet On the
meatsafe in the kitchen was slammed