GHOSTS THAT KISS

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 222, 21 October 1929, Page 9

GHOSTS THAT KISS

A SECRET OF A FARMHOUSE. THE SPIRIT OF CUP1D. An Englisli journal publishes the story of how learful gliosts, who occupied a deserted farmliQuse in a lonely valley near Axniinster, South Devon, and had terrified a number of superstitious countryfolk, were laid by a callous Londoner. Yeird noises, scufi'ling, and mysterious footsteps had made the countryfolk firmly believ© tliat the building was hauntcd. The farmhouse was once prosperous, but is now dereiict. Jlen and women were afraid to pass at night, so a Londoner decided to investigate. Up a winding Devonshire lane, round an old-fashioned stone cottage with tliatehed roof, and then down, down, down into ihe valley of strnnge noises. "S0011." says tbe writer. "I came to the bottom of tbe leafy tunnel aud on to a ripplmg brook crossed by a plank in a very precarions condition. Tbe deserted farni loomed iiji out of tbe gloom. 1 was approaehing the abode of gliosts — alone. "And I lieard tbe noises, strangesounding, wliispering noises coming from tbe long windowless lioles in tlie sides of tbe tmiibling down stone farmbouse. Noises. Aud, as I approaclied clo.ser, scufi'ling. Tbcre was no donbt aliout tlie tales then tliat Ihe vxllagers liad brought home for so long — years they said. I went closer to the windows. "T'lie only supernatural 'spirit' in that lonely farmhouse was the great nne of love — active alwavs little Cupid. For ihe wliispers were tlie eweet-notli-ings tliat love-lorn swains tell to their 'only oues.' Tlie ghosts were courting couples wlio, to gain loneliness, had alowed the story of tlie ghost-hnunted farm to remain unchallenged." Tt- was a pity to spoil so charming a tlirill. Neither those okl countrv folk wlio reallv tlirilled iu their belief of local spirits nor tbe cause of the "weird noises" will tliank the writer for tliis revolation. But in the great cause of truth lie says he had to make it.