TABLE-RAPPING WONDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3424, 16 January 1912, Page 5

TABLE-RAPPING WONDER.

ALLEGED GHOSTS DISTRIBUTE CIGARS. "One evening, as we sat in the dark, a b.-x of cigars was put on the table, an.; the spirit, at the request of one of us, put a cigar into ever- man’s mouth. I was flabbergasted.” So declares a resident, one of a coterie of seven, who sat at seances in a strange house with a mystery room at Tunbridge Wells. The town appears to be agog with their tales of what has happened as the hour has drawn towards midnight or passed to the first stroke of morning. The windows are shrouded, the door is locked, the lights are out. Various articles of furniture and hardware apparently hustle through the air, what time the devoted students of the abnormal sit with tlieir finger-tips pressed on a table- “It is a oomplete mystery to me,” said one of them. “I examined the windows, and I am sure that 110 one was under tne sofa when we began-” The house is occupied by a man in a comfortable financial position, who shows no disposition' to leave. His wife, son, and daughter each declares that these manifestations have been growing in wonder and intensity for nearly a year. According to an account, the occupiei asserts: —“On one occasion the marble clock glided gently, down to the table, ticking all the time. On another, a tambourine floated from high up on the wall and banged us each lightly on the head. ~ Once a violin, which lay on the chest of drawers, began to play—-not m tune; still, it played, and then the bow fell to the floor.” , . . “I am quite unable even to think how all these things happened,” Ins wife struck in. “One time there were the tongs. We had missed them all day, and so we asked if the spurt would bring them back, and sure enough back they came on the table Woolly rugs came from the floor anti curled up round my head and my husband’s during out seance—for sometimes the spirit will not bring what you ask, but will bring sonietlung you have never dreamed of asking for.” _ . “1 went quite disbelieving in spirit powers,” said Mr Wymark, of the leading drapery establishment of the town. “I suddenly switched on an electric light to see" a tambourine, which I had heard jingling, drop from space. I tell you I ivas astounded.” Mr Fearn r keeper of a local hotel, declared that when one night the light was switched on, the fender was found on the table. “I cannot think that a inhuman poiver did it,” said the hotelkeeper. . . . Mr Wymark’s two sisters have also been present at seances, and have expressed their absolute wonderment. A local solicitor asserted that he had been at the house when a heavy drawer, out of a- chest, was lifted out and placed on the table. Yet another resident has told of dropping a pen-knife into a vase with other things, and then feeling the penknife slipped through his fingers as he sat at the table in the dark. The sudden glow of an electric torch showed no one moving in the room.