“HOUSE OF ILL-OMEN”

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 November 1930, Page 3

“HOUSE OF ILL-OMEN”

GHOSTLY VISITS.

Queer stories are told of ghostly visitors to the residence of the ill-fated Yen family in Pitt Street, Liverpool, which, it is stated, had been known foi l many years in the Chinese colony as “The House of 111-Omen.” A white woman neighboui' related: "On the Sunday night before the fire

three friends of Mr. Yen saw the figure of a man sitting on the steps outside tho front door of Mr Yen’s house. “Later the same evening there was a knock at the door, and when ohe of tho Chinamen opened it a ghostly figure passed him without a word, walked along the passage, and up the stairs to the middle front room which was unoccupied. The man who opened tho door followed the figure with a lighted match in his hand, but as soort as he. got inside the empty robm the ghostly visitor had vanished. “Again came a knock at the door. This time another Chinaman opened it, and exactly the same thing happened. An hour later it happened a third time, and again it was a different Chinaman who opened the door. Each oiio declared there was no doubt of the figure being a ghost, and described it in; the same way. They did not tell Mr. Yen, knowing that he was superstitious, and thinking that it might upset him.” Another resident declared that more than thirty years ago, when the population of Liverpool’s Chinatown was much larger, seven Chinamen were burned to death in the same house in tho room that was entered by the ghostly visitors. The victims were fivo stowaways from a Liverpool boat and two laundrymen, who had been sleeping in tho, room.