Evening star., 1922-02-26
ANTIGONISH GHOST
TO FACE ACCUSERS
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ghost hunts he has undertaken in re-
cent years. He left the impression
that the strange fires and tappings
on walls. the rustling Of ghostly
shrouds in dark midnight bedrooms,
the laying on of cold and clammy
hands in the scary hours before dawn,
and other dreadful occurrences had
been traced almost invariably to
some little boy or girl who played
as If every night were Halloween.
or course. DIR. Prince didn't put 1T
quite that way. What he said was
that he had never known of a haunt
ed" house investigation which dis
closed other than natural causes for
the phenomena. This normal cause
he described as some embodied per-
son, and more often than not a young
one.
Unseen Hands Live Ones.
sometimes the investigators could
hnd no sure evidence that a human
being was responsible for rocks COM
ing through windows or for the
clatter OF furniture wobbling on its
legs In rooms believed deserted, or
for the awful sensation of getting
slapped by hand one could not see
or touch. But in such cases the
Investigators were able. DR.. Prince
added, to center suspicion upon a real
live person. Strings not infrequently
have been attached to rocks and
chairs and such-like objects with
frightful effect. DR.. Prince said.
scientifically the complex that mo
tivates such conduct is called poll
tergeist, word Of German ancestry,
that means mischievous spirit Oc-
casionally persons with dual or null
tiple personalities do such ghostly
stunts. DR.. Prince said. purely by
way OF dramatizing experiences from
which they are having reactions,
Hes Sure Of Success.
Mind you, DR.. Prince did not say
there wasn't real live ghost in
Antagonist, as has been avowed by
many veracious and trustworthy
people who found the haunted house
too much for their nerves. But he
did say it would be new experience
for him if he could not locate a nor
NAL cause for the carryings-on.
IF go up there and the phenom-
ena do not continue, Of course. can
get nowhere" he said. But II they
do continue, and 1 fail to get at the
bottom Of it. it will be the first time"
Right here in New York. and not
so long ago. either, DR.. Prince said.
he burst the bubble of a ghost story
by a little serious investigation. "A.
family came to his Office and report
ed that all sorts of queer movements
and noises had been disturbing their
sleep and peace of mind. DR.. Prince
went to work on the case, and pretty
soon the younsster Of the house ad-
mitted that he was the ghost Ever
'afterward the house was reasonably
quiet. =:
Battle Of Personalities.
Cases Of dual and multiple per-
sonalittes long have been studied by
psychologists. and some of the do
tngs of the persons thus afflicted have
seemed quite ghostly to prosaic mor4
tails. who go through life with only
one ordinary personality. In such
cases ones right personality does not
let ones left personality know what
1t doeth, and keen detective work Is
required to locate the normal cause
OF resulting phenomena.
Ones lower personality might
throw brick through window, and
then suddenly the upper conscious
ness would be restored, and the per-
son would never know he had been
acting like a ghost.
Doris Of Five Personalities.
In discussing these things today,
DR.. Prince was reminded Of the IA
nous Doris case in Pittsburgh, six
years ago. Doris, a woman whose
last name was never disclosed. had
five personalities, he said. Some
times she was herself, sometimes
sick Doris, sometimes sleepy Mar
garet, the philosopher; sometimes she
acted like a child. and SO on.
In her secondary personalities the
girl did things of which her normal
mind was not aware, and the valves
of memory were closed between her
higher sense and her lower conscious.
ness, the latter finally crushing the
original personality, so that Doris,
according to printed works by psy-
biologists who made study of her
case. was herself only about three
days during a three-year period.