Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-31

act with few added features. A whole par
Triton between two rooms fell with a crash
that shocked everyone, especially Mrs. Lam
gille who would have To pay for it.
Then came whistlng sounds, followed by
thuds, Lights showed knife and fork stuck
by their points in the wall, and still quivering.
They were uncomfortably close to the
head of one of the Investigators. The next
round went to the cameramen. Hearing a
noise near the kitchen stove they let go their
flashes and everyone saw June backing away
from the stove as if in terror at the sound
But she seemed not in position where she
could have been responsible for the movement
of an old-fashioned flatiron which had caused
the noise
When the films were developed there was
seen what looked like human hand reaching
for the iron. 1t was an adults hand, not a
chids, and apparently of living flesh and
blood - but there was no body attached to it.
Soon after this seance, Mrs. Langille an
nounced firmly and positively that the ghost
had gone away and would not come back for
seven years. How she knew this has not been
diyulged, but no more spiritual doings have
been reported for several weeks.
Another remarkable case is that of Bertha
Sybert nire-year-old daughter of a Virginia
mountaineer. Her ghost did just one thing
but 1t made Bertha famous because it was
done in daylight or any other kind of light,
and regardless of how many investigators
and their test contraptions we're present.
She, or her poltergeist friend, made any
bed on which she lay jump up and down.
Bertha admitted a certain amount of COM
plicity in the psychic monkey shines.
She heard one day the story of a magic
carpet which would carry persons around if
they knew the right magic word. That night
after going to bed, she invented a few and at
almost the first one, her bed began to lump
around responsibility.
Her father, in the next ROOM commanded
her to stop that noise"
Bertha stopped repeating the magic glib
berish, but the bed-jumping continued, even
when she whispered to whoever you are" to
quit.
The father and grandmother came i'm to
put stop to the nonsense" but the ghost
ignored them. The bed continued to bounce.
even when both added their weight to that of
the childs. 1t went right on as one Law on
the bed holding Bertha, while the other peered
underneath, vanly trying to see how it was
done.
she was an obedient child and evidentIv
did her best TO discourage the r1Impus hut
1t went on when she was transferred 70
other beds
The ghost laid off for just one night in
Difference TO Bible placed under her pillow
After that he resumed his msbehavior. even
when neighbors came in and sang hymns.
Loros Ellcdge Jr. twelve year-old farmers
boy of Truman, Arkansas, unwittingly got
tangled up with one of these spiritual bad
associates The result was three terrific
knocks. apparently from whatever point I'm
wall or floor was nearest to his head
They came at night but light would not
stop them and they were so loud as to awaken
the household. Neither the disappearing
presence of the family doctor, the minister
nor the chief Of police had any effect ON the
impudent poltergeist
Nobody knows how to get rid of a pol
tergeist but experience shows that such spools
usually depart of their own free will after
a yeaE-or so. But why Mrs. Langille should
be so sure Jenny's spooky friend has left
for the present, to return in seven years, Is
another mystery.