GHOSTLY REVELS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 286, 3 December 1931, Page 20

GHOSTLY REVELS.

SCIENTIFIC STAFF BAFFIiED

ANCIENT INDIAN SKULLS

SUSPECTED.

Appearance of a ghost in the Glen Mill section of Delaware County recently has served to recall the fact that for fifteen years there have been strange noises in the Media Institute of Science, Pennsvlvania. According to Carolius M. Bromall, institute secretary, queer sounds and knocks hare been heard behind a case holding the skulls of two ancient Peruvian Indians and an American Indian of the Western Plains.

At least twenty members of the staff aave heard the knocking. Bromall declared, and all have taken a hand at trying to solve the mystery. According to Bromall, the baffling knocks are but one of several "ghostly" manifestations -which have been noted in and around Media during the past few years.

"This section of the country/' lie declared, "always had more than its share of "•host and witchcraft stories. Across the%alley of the Ridley Creek, atop a hill just Vest of Media, -was a circular path which was said to have been made bv witches riding their victims when I w'as a boy. The witches were supposed to enter "a farmer's house, transform him into a horse, ride him about the path throughout the night, turning him back into human form in the morning.

"There's another ghost story which has been preserved in the activities of the institute," he continued. "It relates how in the latter half of the eighteenth century the ghost of a beautiful and charming young woman, who was murdered on her wedding night by her husband, was seen slowly to walk up and down the valley below the 'Witches Ride', along the old mill race every night. "Within the past few year 3 we have received no reports of the appearance of these two ghosts, but the one which haunts the institute is still with us/'