AH ALLOA GHOST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2660, 16 November 1909, Page 6

AH ALLOA GHOST.

A HAUNTED HOUSE FIASCO

A n - Alloa correspondent Avrites as follows to the “Weekly Scotsman ot September 2:—ln the beginning ot last week the inmates of a house in Greenside Street, Alloa, heard strange .noises proceeding from the corner of a room which overlooks tho old cemetery, lhc sounds resembled rappings anu subdued voices, and Avere only perceptible after midnight. The assistance of neighbors Avas invited to unravel the mysterious happenings, and those who were courageous enough to undertake a P ro r longed vigil in the haunted room had no difficulty in corroborating and confirmin'l, the belief of the inmates ot the 1 icuse that the Aveird noises Avere clearly supernatural. Oih> excitable youth who passed .an excitable hour in the attempt to solve the mystery declared that ho had observed the apparition of a human form, and that on his approach the spectre incontinently vanished into space. Quick as Avildliro the to,port that a ghost had been seen m the haunted room spread throughout the town, and for the next feiv nights tho huse and its surroundings Avere visited by all the curious-minded and superstitious members of the community. A reporter endeavored to get a glimpse of the .supernatural apparition, but although closeted for several hours in the isolated apartment, the pressman confessed that he neither heard nor saw anything. From Glasgoiv also came a •doctor of medicine, who, claiming to be a learned exponent of spiritualism, presumed to be able to soh'e the mysteiy of the rappings and the physical apparition. He likewise shut himself up in the haunted a-oom for several hours, but beyond the spirits of two sailors, which lie was able to summon up from the silent land adjoining, he reported that lie saw no supernatural spectre, nor heard sounds nor noises of any description. ‘ The inmates of the house, hoAVCver, continue to believe that the room is “possessed,” and hotly resent the suggestion that the cause of all the mysterious noises may be traced to the nocturnaj operations, of rats. The latest developments in the still unsolved mystery is a post-card 'reproduction of a Aveird apparation, Avhich is claimed to bo the Alloa ghost, and which is being sold as a memento of tho haunted house fiasco.