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The Rathbone Sisters convention at Tlantington was a perfect success, all reports being true, but a party of eighteen sisters returning to Ossian Saturday morning at two o'clock had an experience which made them for get all the good times they had exper ienced during the day. W. H. . Rup tight states that any one of the eigh teen is willing to make oath that the happenings as herein recorded are true,as they verily believe and there seems to be no reason for questioning their belief, for all declare themselves to have been awake at the time. This is the experience they relate. While passing the Prospect cemetery four miles west of Ossian the ladies were regaling themselves with new and spicy ghost stories and wishing that a real genuine sample might ap pear so that some of the skeptical might be convinced. Their desire was gratified. When at the east side of the graveyard lat a white spectre, half as large as a balloon sack and having the shape of a huge umbrella suddenly emerged from beneath a large oak tree standing near the fence and started towards the road. By the time the ghost had reached the cemetery fence the ladies had passed on six or eight rods east. They were hampered to see that the spectre was coming toward them, but, instead,’o becoming more and more stuped and frightful in appearance the obje dwindled down, changed its shape and appeared as the apparition of a many, finally disappearing into the air. For a moment the entire party ° ‘Speechless. Such a convincing dem onstration of the supernatural. inhab itants of the nightly air they had ne ar dreamed possible but there was a whole performance right before ‘their eyes, and how could they ‘doubt it? It seemed like a fairy story but Mrz Rupright tells us that every lady in the party declared upon her sisterly, oath that the experience was so realis tic that they will never go ‘to Hun ington again on that road. The~ ple of the vicinity of Prospect he also learned of the episode and stories. are coming out every day of like’ hap penings of late but which had never been told for fear of ridicule. The seems no explanation short of a spirit ualistic one unless it be that Rufus, Cantrell or some of his colleagues ‘are at work in this county and ‘take this means to frighten off possible. ea: droppers. Watch parties to inves gate future walkings of the ghost! ‘ares hinted at.
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Bluffton Banner
Bluffton, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 10, 1903
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