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“YOU'RE A BIRO,” THEY SAIO.The article in the News rela-—.tive to the “haunted house” onBYthe Utica pike which has just been torn down by “Doc” andEd Lentz and converted into anew dwelling, called forth ajcommunication from a wellknown resident of this place who says that he and another once investigated the character of the “haunt” and found out Wherein it consisted.-According to this gentleman he and another were in the neighborhood of the house at one time toward night, and it c ccurred to them that it would te a good opportunity to inter-J v ew the “spooks.* ’ Accordingly, says he, they did a little j trespassing and soon found themselves safely within the old two-story frame that had remained closed so long. There they remained all night and though they never found the spooks yet they found out, so they claim, the cause of the “haunt”The house really was haunted, they say. It seems that when it was first built it had been constructed of boards!m which were very full of knots and the knots had fallen out with time as the boards driedout. In the holes thus formed.in the space between the boarding and the plastering, the birds \had made their nests and at night the noise they made is declared by this veracious correspondent to have been “unearthly.” Red-headed woodpeck-, ure ers, and nothing else, were they, I sm __ i____i ___• _ r . (sclCOlof So calsin91.40, Tb 651sul bai lat sid wi: tio am coimucrt theaii'tinereto^ sir cit (slu wfcTovBetCar Oh aJeffMcuOreUniWaiWotOtiiCfaaCla]PorJef!1004Grathe spooks which had gained forthe house itsjfearsome reputation.The narrator of the story of this investigation and its result was one of a party that investigated another ghost story, seemingly he had a peculiar penchant for investigations ofthe kind. In this other case however his findings were mere-j ly of a negative character and^Sel1 you cannot prove there are no ghosts merely by the fact thatyou have not seen them, though the Irishman once tried that game in court, offering to bring ten times as many witnesses who * ‘didn’t see him’” commit a crime as the State could produce witnesses who did see him.The subject of this other inves* tigation was the house near Maple and Penn in which Mrs. Bennett killed herself and children some years ago in one of themost terrible tragedies ever enacted in this city. It was small | \[a wonder that the house won a name for itself but this same bold investigator and some friends spent several nights in the house trying to locate the ghosts, always without having any evidence of their existence.Ufo ghost was either seen or heard and at last the investigators abandoned the attempt to locate the ghosts. The house was subsequently torn down.hahoCOGcbele^wcwlannff
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Jeffersonville National Democrat
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Fri, May 19, 1905
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