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A STRANGE PHENOMENON.A Horrible Apparition Hovers Over the City at an Early Hour this Morning-What Tam O'Shantor saw on his famous ride was discounted this morning about two o'clock by what Marshall McIntyre and Bill Gray saw. They were at that hour at the barn of William Martin, on east Main street, hitching u| the team to the ice wagon preparatory to leaving for the ice houses. While standing in the alley back of the stable Mr. McIntyre suddenly felt a strange sensation of awe and dread coming overhim and looking up he saw a horrible | apparition approaching from the west, j It was about three or four hundred feet in the air. and most greusome in aspect.It was about eighteen feet long and eight feet wide am1, moved rapidly ! through the.air by means of several pairs of side tins which it worked mos| sturdilv. It was pure white and had no delinite shape or form, resembling some- j what a great white shroud fitted oik with propelling tins. 1 here was no tail j or head visible but there was one great Uatning eve, and a sort of a wheezing, plaintive sound was emitted from a mouth which was invisible. It Happed j like a tlag in ihe winds as it came on j and frequently gave a great squirm as though sutler mg unutterable agony. When it came to be directly over the residence of Mr. Martin it begun to sweep slowly and majestically around in j a circle. It hovered thus for some time j and the watchers fearing lest it was1 after their bacon retired for safety to the i shelter of the barn. The apparition ffuallv Hew oil toward the east, but when it reached the city limits it returned and began again to hover overMr. Martin’s house. Mr. McIntyre was in favor of arousing the family but hiscompanion interposed his objection sothe men watched it alone until after three o’clock when they drove off to the ice house leaving the spook or whatever it was still hovering high in air. It re- |1 mained there as long as they could see ;' its position but was gone when they returned at daylight. Both of them are much worked up over the affair and ' very naturally associate the it with the supernatural. They will carry a Springfield rifle to the barn the next time they . go and if the apparition again comes I flapping around they will drill a fijple in . him with an ounce of cold lead.
Newspaper Details
Crawfordsville Daily Journal
Crawfordsville, Indiana, US
Sat, Sep 05, 1891
Page 8
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Kevin S.
CA 25 Jul 2022
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