Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-10
HUNTING A GHOST
Nova Scotia SpoOk Claims Attention
I '.11i of Scientist. 81 .
GIRL MAY Be KEY To MYSTERY
Victims Tell Strange Tales of Weird
Faces, Ethereal Arm and Ghastly
Tappinss-Ghost Appeared Six Years

Faces, Ethereal Arm and Ghastly
Tappinss-Ghost Appeared Six Years
Ago. -, ,...,' ...,,,....,
Nestled in lonely and isolated spot
a mile and a half back from the An
tigonish- -Guysboro main road, between
Caledonia Mills and Roman Valley
stands a farm house which, up until q
few weeks ago, was the home Of Alex
ander Macdonald, his wife Gnd their
adopted daughter, Mary Ellen, writes
q correspondent from Halifax, Nova
Scotia. -.Ce .-r...
There has been wound about the
home of these God fearing, gentle peo-
pie q mystery which has so far baffled
the skill of one of Nova Scotia's lead
ing crime sleuths, and has led to fur
ther Investigations being undertaken
by the American Institute Of Scientific
Research New York. and eminent
professors of Dalhousie University,
Halifax.
The mystery revolves around a
ghost" which is supposed to haunt
the home. DR.. Walter Franklyn
Prince, who is here as representative
CT the American Institute Of Scientific
Research, is ready to start his expedi-
ton. into the wilds of the Antigonish
country to "lay'' the spook. At the
outset he is confronted with views dis
senting from those he already. has ex-
pressed.
DIR. Prince in explaining the Am
herst "ghost" of forty years ago, laid
the strange happenings OF that mys-
terry to the dual personality of a girl
in the case. .f. .
The scientist has stated that he will
find a 'live spook" in this mystery,
but there are thousands in this prov
ince who declare that DR.. Prince is
wrong If he expects to associate the
"ghost" with Mary Ellen, MacDonald's
adopted daughter, who is fifteen years
old
Mary Ellen is n quiet girl and has
never been out of the province. Hun
dreds of letter. are being received here
expressing the belief that she has not
had anything to do with mysterious
occurrences reported at the MacDon-
aid home, and that there is no dual
personality in this case.
Scout Human Agency. q.
Hundreds of, others in Antigonish
and ,Guysboro eedhties who have visit
ed the homestead are convinced that
neither Mary Ellen nor any other hu-
man is in any way responsible for the
uncanny events.
= AS for DR.. Prince, he is saying lit
tie. If there 6s q ghost he viii find
it, he says, and u the strange episodes
are caused by electrical disturbances,
that he will learn the, fact. While he
hopes he will discover something that
will be OF valhe to scientists, he fire.
quently asks: How old did you say
Mary Ellen isII ~ 49,
Six years ago the mysterious hap
penings began. Mr.. Macdonald was
amaze to find on going to his stable
one morning that his horses and cows
had been changed from the stalls
which they had occupied the previous
night, and that the horses names and
tails had been braided. Shortly after
ward he sold one OF the horses and
purchased another one, which, despite
his careful guarding, also received the
same treatment at the hands Of the
"spooks." Then the mysterious oc-
currences ceased, and Mr.. Macdonald
dismissed the incident from his mind.
1t was not until the following spring
that the strange happenings wer, re-
newed. Chains and spikes were used
by the bewildered farmer to fasten his
stock in their stalls, but were of no
avail Cows would be found loosed
from their stanchions, or placed in
another stall five minutes after the
barn had been vacated, trembling with
fear, and bathed in perspiration.
Weird Blush Lights.
Another lull came in the ghostly
performances. During the interval
weird blush lights are reported to
have been seen by a fisherman who
passed the house early one evening.
Convinced that some one was in the
stable he investigated, but found it
unoccupied. Unwilling to arouse the
occupants of the house, which was in
darkness, the angler continued on his
way greatly puzzled, and not until a
recent startling series Of events, which
resulted in the Macdonald family be-
ing driven from their home in the dead
of a severe winter, did he make any
statement of what he had seen.
Again the curious happenings ceased.
The evil spirit had evidently been sub
dued.
On the morning of January of this
year the first of the latest series Of
what are said to be supernatural
events started. Entering the kitchen
of his home to light the fire, MacDon-
aid, was surprised to find cinders on
the top of the stove. Looking up at
the ceiling he discovered that during
the night a large patch had been