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A REAL GHOST STORY.CJcc(Continued From First Page.)TaPtimid woman and whenever she heard the rapping she would go to the door and open it, always with the same result nobody was to be seen. Determined not to be driven away by a ghost or a trick he believed somebody might be playing on him to frighten him and cause him to sell out, Beattie hung onto the ranch, his wife bravely standing by him. At last the government bought the place, it being included in the area of land purchased by Uncle Sam for the Cheyennes a few years ago. Before he sold out, however, Beattie had lost his wife and was married a second time when he finally left. Like the first, the second Mrs. Beattie heard the rapping, making it tolerably clear that it had not been a trick of the imagination that had caused the first Mrs. Beattie to declare that something was wrong with the place.“As soon as the government had obtained title to the land a great rivalry sprung up among the Indians as to who should have the ranch, it being watered by springs and in other ways one of the most desirable pieces of land on the reservation. One of the many applicants for the place secured it and moved onto the land, using the house and stables built by Ferguson. He did not remain long, though. The rappings that had annoyed and mystified the white occupants continued and the Indian moved. Another moved in and then moved out. Several others tried it, but none would remain. All declared that a ‘bad spirit’ was there and would permit nobody to live on the place.“Several years have passed since the last occupant left and the buildings have begun to go into decay and are tumbling down, and unless the ghost of Bob Ferguson gets tired and goes elsewhere the ranch will probably be never occupied again, at least not by any of the Cheyennes.”
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Rosebud County News
Forsyth, Montana, US
Thu, Jan 22, 1903
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