Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-07
NORTH SIDE !
MYSTERY IS
NOT SOLVED
Ghost Draws Crowds, IS
! Seen, But Not Yet ssl
!: g,sg !. Captured. sees
Vision Appears on Roof 81
Hospital-FIearts Pal
plate Feverishly.

Late this afternoon 1t was said
that the "ghOst' reported to !
have been zen in the, north end
Of the city, is no. ''ghost" At. all.
1t has happened lately that q
woman who was iii and more or
room and took a walk In the .;
neighbOrhoOd and there also Ms :
. report TO the effect that q SOM. ~
nambultsttc woman has been -
roaming about a few times. Most =
white dresses ser in that &c.,
ton of the city are now said TO /.
exotic suspicfon-and disappOint.
ment when the mystery continues
To- battle. :
Some 500 people gathered together
from various sections Of the city,
watched and waited in the North End
last night for the ghost, but today the
Jekyll and Hyde, male or female, Of
the city still Is at large. Some saw,
but none captured. and today there
are strange tales told of. the nights
spacious yard. there were little gath
erings of timid folk and whisperings
and hurried glances at the heavens
and attempts to pierce the darkness.
The rustling of the leaves. the
c~runching Of feet on rtwiEs or the sud
den appearance of some individual
caused more than. one heart. to pause
for a moment and, then, beat furious
ly. Pr. =
About midnight a group near the
hospital was stricken with terror:
tongues chung to the roofs of their
mouths. They were awaiting ! the
appearance of the ghost, but they
were not prepared to see the specter
appear s 1t did. Imagine their feel
1ngs. II you can. when they. saw. a
streak Of white. shaped like a human
form, gliding back and forth. up and
down on the ROOF of the hospital. One
man suggested that it was the soul
fight. but he was hushed so quickly
that his own SOU nearly fed. The
little group of awe-stricken spectators
could not move; they tried to flee. but
their feet moved not. Their hearts
did, but that is another story.
North = Fifth street, /. another
group, of watchers stood. in a back
yard awaiting developments. They
came out OF the darkness OF the alley,
and today there are. some emo say a
headless being, not unlike the head
less horseman OF the Legend Of Sleepy
Hollow; rushed up the .betweeh-ways
tforoughfare. so recently" bedecked
with ash piles, in search of its head.
But the. ash piles had, been removed,
and, perhaps the head with them. In
that little group. after this vision was
seen, were many, who could not tell
whether or not they had heads.
A reporter for The Herald, who, of
late has been wont to sleep. m tables
at, the oflce,. plucked up. courage
enoughslast night to walk to his home
on North Fifth street: He ;waelac.
companied by a bodyguard; known, az
Tiny, but IN build not 'at'ah like" that.
The b~odyguard by night is an Asso-
ciated Press telegraph operator and
used to tales Of adventure > and
romance, and go feared not the ghost
But he knew not this ghost Whan ia
the 600 Block. the ghost appeared Il
him. This time, it was the female OF
the species. and she grabbed Tiny by
his huge shoulders, and together they
danced a strange, > fantastic step
danced till the operator fell prone
The reporter waited not for develop
ments, and, unmindful., Of the fac
that. he. should have interviewed the
specter.> rushed madly down town
Today, he sen a .drayman into .th<
North End for, his trunk.
These ghost stories. grow NOR,
weird as the. days go on Before long
people win be able to look through
the figure, as Scrooge did through
Old Marley'e ghost And all this hap
pens in the days Of bone-drynesA.