The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-01-25
A FEW MODERN GHOSTS,
Experiences Of a Man Who Rented
House that was Really Haunted.

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81 feel pretty good tonight" said
Bascomb to his caller, as he put away
some plans on which he had been
working, because this week l sue
ceeded in exercising another ghost
and quieting a buyer who had been
raising an awful rumpus. About
three months ago / sold two-family
house out in Westchester to a man
who wanted to live in it himself His
inspector looked the place over, pro-
nounCed it in first-class shape and the
property was transferred all right.
Two days after the man moved in he
came into the Office in a deuced Of a
stew and the dickens of a temper.
"Look here he shouted, that
place you sold me is haunted All last
night we couldn't sleep and my wife
swears she won't live there
Il quieted him and reasoned with
him, and he went away, though bo
was still doubtful. 7 knew he would
be back. and he was iu less than %
week This time be was plainly shaN-
en- up
"Its al it again. ho said, and
hold you responsible You knew when
/ bought the place / was putting all
my money into it, You'd had 1t on
your hands for nearly year. Now |
know It was because possible buyers
were onto the fact that there was
something queer about the place.
Ill bet a wOrkngman, u mason or
a carpenter or something like that,
was killed when it was being built and
it's he that is causing the trouble. My
wife Is sure of II and she's on the
verge Of breakdown
what does the ghost do?' I asked,
Well he said, uneasily, we have
MT seen anything. It's just a groan-
ing and moaning, and it seems to
travel upstairs and then down and all
around the place 1t is the most aw-
full thing ever listened to- He turn
ed fiercely on me, and I'm not going
to stand 1t much longer, either, You
did me on this place, and | hold you
responsible. If anything happens,
we'll
81 questioned him and found the
ghost was active only on stormy
nights and he gave me as well as he
| could the dates on which the trouble
| had happened. Then l looked over
| this file of weather reports. clipped
from q daily paper, and found that the
ghost got busy only when the wind
was in certain direction, Day be-
fore yesterday | started in right, and
| headed for the place. The man and
woman were both upset. The ghost
had been at 1t already. We sat and
talked for few minutes and sud
! denly | was brought to my feet by the
most unearthly wailing groan l have
ever heard II seemed to shrill and
quiver all through the place, rising
and falling as II went along. The wo-
man was hale hysterical, and had
grasped the mans arm. He was as
frightened as she, and so wasn't much
of a consolation to her.
81 was mystifed, but | made q
round of the place, still sticking TO
the theory | had formed. l spent a
ncrve-racking hour before | finally lo-
Gated it, The ghost was made by a
little round hole in the frame of one
of the windows and the inside cord of
the window. When the wind was
right it rushed through the hole, set
the cord To vibrating and formed a
most beautiful flute and harp effect
A plug of wood laid that ghost for
good and all. The people in the house
could have found 1t only they were
too blamed frightened to search.
Another customer accused me o
having walled live cat up in build
ing. The noise certainly did sound lik'
a cat moaning soultully for its affin
ity, but the trouble was due TO tn
electric wires having got crossed IN
such a way that at times they pro
duced the most dismal music ear eve
listened to-
"The hardest to locate was III
ghost of departed basso profuudI
who at unreasonable hours would bel