THE HAUNTED FLAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 17 (Supplement)

THE HAUNTED FLAT.

SALZBURG AND THE HOUSING ft PROBLEM. E In Salzburg, Austria, even a ghost has ik taken a hand in the housing problem, ra In a block of flats, where the owner of W a house wants a certain family to leave 13 it, between twelve at midnight and two « a.m. the couple are plagued by strange fft noises every night. At twelve sharp iff knocking starts, steps and whispers are fij heard from the adjacent room, and sud- M clenly a hail of pebbles pours from the g ceiling. Three times the "ghost" smashed V all the window-panes. Occasionally he ft announced his appearance by throwing IS lumps of sugar through the bedroom fe' window. During his last visit he H smashed a looking-glass and two pictures. [C The police cannot find any vestige of fe the invader. The other night a police- \i man received a pebble on his head, a l§ soldier who thought that he saw the g fugitive ghost on the roof hurried after U him, but fell and was injured. The flat- [S dwellers hold that the "ghost" has been p, engaged by the house-owner to make Ik the family vacate the place, since he hj can let it to other lodgers on more P favourable terms. 8