The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
The Ghost Is Loid
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

plnned the WlVcn or ScfupIuBBob Green down under her stone once more today but 0 skeptical little man named Walter Devish watched from the sidellnes and offered to bet the perplexlng spook would be out of her grave again when the clock strikes midnight.
 But Prof. faIry Price of the London Council on rsychical Ro. search who directed the laying of the ghost by pointing with his utfi : brella was moro confident,
 "That should fix her, lads" Pricc said as the big gray stone was showed back into what he hoped was the position it lay in before c Yankee bulldoxer scraped 1t off the resting place where the witch had slept these 200 years.
 On the other hand the litle man called Deyish said;
 Rubbish"
 What did you say9" he was asked.
 1T said rubbish" Devish answered. And ! mean rubbish She won't stay down."
 why won't she stay down7" Warden ". ]. Sykes, proprietor of Ye Old Queen Annes Castle i'm and leader of the Nine, Stout Wltch- layers, asked.
 Because" Devish said, you've got the blooming eye pointed side- ways. I've been past this stone every day for A years and the eye always pointed up,"
 Devish pointed at an identation in the stone, resembling an eye,
 Waves Farewell
 At that point Price, umbrella Afi hand, waved farewell to the witeh- Ing party shouting that he had to catch train back to London 10 see If he couldn't hold Up the presses on his latest book and add c chaps ter on the serapfaggot phenomena.
 The only comment from the burial party came from Sykes.
 "Damme," he shouted to his com. panions aS they still tugged at the stone, "hold on. I got me bloody fingers pinned"
 The operation for the fe.laying of the stone was planned at q breakfast table conference at the inn.
 Despite having spent half the night over foaining fiagons with Sykes, discussing the pranks and practices of restless spirits, the pro. lessor professed himself fine and ht for the forthcoming tussle with the witchs ghost.
 we are, gentlemen, working iil c sense against time," said Price, ct the breakfast table, emphasizing his points by jabbing his porridge spoon oil tho worn oaken boards. T trust that you realize tomorrow is Friday the thirteenth. Frankly gentlemen, I fear to think what ifiis" chief our poltereeist might cause If allowed to remain at large on that day of dark omen"
 Sykes interrupted:
 Cant we get the bulldoSGr chap' pei over from the American base, professor He might De able to holp uS get squared away"
 Impossible
 "That. I fear" said tho professor "k impossible, I have already cofis suited tho American military, MT. Sykes. and 1 regret to inform you that it is their best belief and ins formation that the soldier in qucs. ton has departed for the continent with an airborne unit"
 Price spent yesterday afternoon with Village Warden W. ]. Sykes. proprietor of the 774-yearseld "Ye Oide Queen Annos Castle inn" iiis yestigating evidence of the prarkS credited to the poltergeist, from iets ting sheep out of walled pastures to setting rabbits on hen eggs.
 Sykes, first to buF6t iIl as they returned to the inn last evening, announced breathlessiy to coterie of villagers having their fiagons of tho mild and bitter:
 'ft's the ideal thing, boys. The professor here says It's c boia fide pol. He says it's C witch alright"
 The gangling psychic expert fingered his bowler and carried on:
 "Mr. Sykes Is substantially cor" rect" Price said. we have ac" cumuiated incontrovertible evidence of authentic, spiritual phenomena from tho lips of, shall VIC say, the victims"
 Price and Sykes had taken voius minous notes from women whose book packets had been tWltehed, farmers whose haystaeks had been blown over on windless nights and nthef WitfAEsAE,
 Personal Visit
 They heard and duly recorded the story of Mir. Mcintosh who reported c personal visit from the witch while his wife was ifi Scotland, Into the notes went his tale Of hearing his door open, feeling the freezing presence of c lump ifl bed beside him for C moment and then hears ing his door siam,
 The two stood lengthily at scraps faggot Green studying the grave stone, pushed to the side Of ( laile which was widensd for hillary traffic.
 Price informed sykes there was scafit hope of keeping the witch n th0 grave where she had lain iifis dIsttifted since she was burned at t1e stake % decades aGo until the stone was replaced exactly as before "Not only must stone be re- placed as it originally lay o1 her Breast but ft's cFlentatloFl north and south must Dc exact" Price de- Ciared. "Othefwiso there is grave adnger tha we siioIi IuFe the pol~ tefgeiet baek only tc ilave her escape from under the edge M ths niis' placed stone"
 Hgieg rubbed lie etsin.
 "tvhht f would Iike," he, eald, ''wouId he te nlake tIlat young bliil-