The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-03-20
Chittenden Worlds Ghost
Center Back in FO2Hgs

from the land Of the living and left the
entire ghost business Of Chittenden in
the hands oi her highly competent sons.
Rutland had at least two representa-
tiycs that held down one end of the
primitive split log scat that accommo-
dated the party on that eerie occasion.
Cave Part of Scenery"
The scene Of the manifestation-what
the Camcraman today you'd call i
in tie bottom of the ravine and the
''cave'-about the only thing that was
not faxed in connection with the affair
was merely two large fragments of
rocks in such position rs to make Il
sort of canopy for the nocturnal antics
If wraiths.
While tremors agitated the spines Of
the men and women ont there in the
open that cool May night there sud
denly appeared the ghost of Santum, a
dead redskin. and q few moments later
the Indians squaw, who had gone to the
happy hunting grounds. appeared.
Ghost Santum posed on the top of
the rock against the skyline vision Of
those on the rail and, as he silhouettcd
himself against the Star-fiCcllcd clouds,
stock in the Eddy ghost promotion pro-
ject went up as fast as wheat dropped
that memorable afternoon two score or
more years ago when Joe" Letter tried
To bankrupt the ArmOurs.
M0nlieydoOdIe Business.
To have attempted to convince that
circle of eye-witnesSes that they had
been deludcd and that there was any
monkeydoOdle business about Santum' s
ghost disporting in the moonlight atop
a boulder would have resulted in hard
feelings toward those of the skeptical
slant OF mind.
On that night in the long ago Hora-
ito Eddy put one over" in the par
lance of expert ghost detectorS of today.
on that little band of men and women
gathered beneath the stars, but the de-
scendants of some of the party still
cling to the belief that their ancestors
were, on that occasion. in close COM
munication with the spirit of a long
time dead Indian.
The party that. sat on the rail in the
moonlight and communed with the
ghosts of Redskins included Andrew
Beebe of Ludlow, Mary +. Jewett and
Albert Frost of Rutland, Charles Wake
field of Boston, James Little of Lake
George. y. Y. and Mrs. Caroline Goss
of Hudson, Wis.
HObgobIin Pageant.
The moonlight ghoStTes; was only one
Of perhaps a thousand incidents in the
career Of these master ghost producers
the Eddys. 1t has been said that
witchcraft was inherited by Julia Ma
combs but the investigators have never
reported the truth of such allegations.
The repertoire of the Eddy's ghost
factory was almost unlimited. There
was the stunt of producing for the cred
ulouS Il woman on u white horse; the
spinning ghost whose gaunt fingers fed
the flax from her diStaff to her rapidly
William and Horatio reached out and
beyond the confines of the material
world into the land of spirits and
brought spirit messages from the dead
\ fnvoritc feature of the Eddy seances
was the presentation Of ghost babies.
There were comedy ghosts, the ma
IciouS barber. the smoking Sguaw and
q performance of musical wraiths
Table tipping, ringing of gongs, spirit
writing and such complications of the
supernatural were coInmonplaces in the
Eddy brothers program.
Probably one of the best stunts ever
attempted by a Chittendcn ghost was
the Welding of coppcr, although this
was only second in the line of ghostIy
accomplishments To tho shawl-making of
~antuln's ghost There were ghosts Of
aa0y Eatloraitics i'm Chitteuden half
century age, the. departed spirits Of
iEuss.auS. Germans. Canadians and
others visiting the home Of the Iddys.
LondGn Sent SkCptic.
lfut there were SkepticS that came to
Chittenden and among them was a pro
fessional ghost hunter employed by the
London Graphic The latter became IN
volved in controversy with Il Herald
representative, the latter insisting that
there We're many Unexplainablc things
about the Eddy case.
Alter the Eddy brothers had Travelled
over the world and connected thousands
Of spirits with earth folks the takers
confessed that they had duped the cred
ulous and today the story Of the Chit
tender ghosts has been forgotten except
by a few persons.
Among the adventurous spirits from
Rutland who sat in TO seances in the
Ghittenden ghost shop were the present
referee in bankruptcy. Thomas II.
Browne. likewise exalted ruler Of Rut-
land lodge Of EIks. and the well known
tobacconist, Lew Abraham
There were, Of course, others. but only
a few remain who can pose as eye-wit-
resses to the naturalization of spirit
folks in the Eddy home