New-York tribune., 1922-03-10
DIR. Prince Bats
His Farm Ghost
Trap With Girl
Mary Ellen Macdonald and
Her Father, Old Friends
of Antigonish Spook, Re-
turn to House for Night
IheyLurcd Wrath Before
Hopes of Psychic Experts in
a Supernatural Visitation
Are Commencing to Wane
Special Dispotch to The Tribune

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he Antigonish ghost refused again
last night to come out Of hiding for
the benefit of Dr.. Walter F. Prince,
acting director Of the American So
ciety for Psychical Research, although
the professor and his aids kept wait
ing sympathetically for some mysteri-
Gus fires. rappings or slaps AS spc-
cial induccment to the spook, the psy-
chlca party sent for Mary Ellen Mac
onald and her foster father, who were
driven from the house some weeks ago
by the peculiar manifestations of the
! ghost, and this couple is passing to-
night in the haunted house. If the
spirit is concerned only with members
of the Macdonald family, the psychic
experts believe that it ought to come
back to its old haunts tonight
Dr. Prince believes that he is dealing
with a poltergest German for racket
ing spiriO. which is responsible for all
the queer things that happen in this
| house.
81 win exercise all the ghost alluring
incantations know Of" DR.. Prince said
on his way here. but as far as mem
bers Of his party know, no special
alluremcnts have been held out till tae
! M9cDOn2ldS were sent Tor.
Wait for Something to Turn ID
Early nervousness over what might
happen is beginning to give way to
fear that nothing is going to occur. DR..
Prince. however, is in no hurry, saying
he will stay in the haunted dwelling
until satisfied that there is no ghost or
until the spook comes out and gives
battle.
Dr.. Prince jokes as much about the
ghost as others do. Perhaps, as DR..
William irwin. Of the spiritualist So
cicty in Boston has said, the investiga-
tors are due for Il jolt and that thc
ghost will laugh last. Neverthe less the
psychic party is smoking much, play
ing the ghost Still no answer from
spiritland.
SO much hope is placed in the com
ing Of the MacDonalds that there will
be iderable appointment if the
ghost doesn't respond to this bait
When Investigators of the spook story
came up here several weeks ago and
: waited for the spirit to appear, they
waited in vain for the first several
: nights. Then the MacDonalds were
called in and things began to happen
just as in the old days when the Mac
Donalds made this place their home.
lists is that the ghost is the spirit of
men who died with hatred in their
hearts for the MacDonalds. That be-
lief may be tested by to-night's ordeal
DR.. Prince said he hoped that the
) ghost would take up the challenge
,, offered by the presence of the Mac
Donalds and looked forward to de
velopments.
Familiar Scenery for Wrath
As far as possible all the conditions
, surrounding previous visits of the
, spook are being reproduced in prcpara-
, tion for to-night's vigil. All the cattle
are in their right stalls in the barns
with special note taken that no knots
have been tied in their tails in advance
and all their halter ropes are well Sc
ems. Just as it was the night the ghost
visited the Investigators before.
The chief noticeable difference in
conditions is that on that eventful
night the thermometer stood at DO be-
low zero, whereas tonight it registers
almost that many degrees above.
DR.. Prince III statement said:
"If we get nothing tonight, we shall
endeavor to alter conditions and see If
they will be more successful. ] wish
it distinctly understood that am
neltnSr LOT or against tHe Claims lnduc
for this case, so far as the occult fac
tor is concerned. do know that many
of the honest claims Of the super
normal have been dissolved when there
was an opportunity to bring scientific
methods to bear upon the phenomena
in operation.
"I also know that phenomena includ
ing raps, sounds as of walking visions
which announce facts hitherto unknown
to the beholder, etc, have occurred,
which rigid scientific scrutiny failed
to explain. For the present we must
wait to see if anything happens. If
it does, we shall probably make prog
ress toward a theory of causation."