DAYLIGHT GHOST.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2586, 21 August 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

DAYLIGHT GHOST.

STRANGE MANIFESTATIONS. Wyke, a small township outside Bradford, has been in a state of wild excitement over tales of supernatural manifestations. They take not only, the familiar form of knocking, but cause the furniture to dance before the mistress of the house, and even strike her across the face with an antimacassar. These alarming incidents took place in a house in Church-street, occupied by a Mrs. Priestley and h e r two daughters, all of whom are unnerved by reason of the weird happenings. They have been taking place by day and night, says the “Tally News.” Unlike the majority of ghosts, tms particularly robust spirit has no desire to cloak its performances under the cover of darkness, but carries on m daylight and in the presence of independent witnesses. _ The first evidence of the uncanny being was a thumping on the wall on'Saturday night, June 5. On Sunday Mrs Priestly found the furniture and other articles in the front room strewn about in disorder. Calling in Mrs Smith, the two replaced the furniture in it sproper position, and left the room, returning immediately, as they _ heard it moving. The room was again i'n disorder. After putting things straight the two ladies bravely sat down, and while writing, the “ghost” struck Mrs Priestley in the face with an antimacassar. ' Simultaneously the cooking utensils in the kitchen began to clank and caper about the shelves. Then a cane chair, after dancing about the room, walked down the passage into the back garden, where it lest its supernatural power and fell back in a ll rnvte on the ground. A lead weight used to keep the door open, also piroquetted around Mrs Priestly and Mrs Smith, but this offence against the law* <s* gravity caused the two ladies to reAire in alarm. > T ot content with the outrage on Mrs Pnestley, the spirit hurled with a good aim a brush at Mtss Priestly, while another chair had 3. seizure, and danced around Mrs Priestly in the kitchen. ' Mrs Priestley has lived in the district for forty years, and is said to be' a sceptic regarding unearthly manifestations. No one is able to account for them, blit they have been witnessed by a ntiinber of people. Among them are Mrs Priestley, two of her daughters, her gratid-daughter ■ Mr Joseph Jones, undertaker, of Wyke, his wife and daughter; Miss Harper Butlershaw; Mr and Mrs John Smith, Churclistreet; and Mr John Brayshaw Butcher, New Road Side, Wyke.