HAUNTED HOUSE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10723, 22 October 1928, Page 2

HAUNTED HOUSE.

DEAD BOY’S SPIRIT

STRANGE STORY TOLD

Mr. and .Mrs. Herbert Dyer, who live in Llanhilleth (Monmouthshire), believe that their house is haunted by the ghost of their son Leslie, who died at Newport (Monmouthshire) Hospital from tubercular . meningitis in 1926, at the age of twelve. They say that they were told after their son’s death by a spiritualistic medium that they would have communications from their dead hoy. Their son Herbert (17) is believed to be a successful medium, and it is when he is present that the disturbances occur.

Before the funeral her dead son appeared to-Mrs. Dyer. Shn said slip saw a strange light playing about his head. Not long afterwards Mr. Dyer went to a spir tualistic seance in Abertillery, where a. medium' whom he had never seen before told him the circumstances of his son’s death Later another medium assured Mrs Dyer that she saw “piccaninnies hanging blue flowers about her. amthen when the blue flowers came she would have strange manifestations ” it appears that bluebells were the favorite flowers of Mrs. Dyer’s son. This prophesy was.’fulfilled in the spring, when, according to Mr. Dyer and his family and friends, the strange visitations began. BROTHER As THE MEDIUM. Mr. Dyer lias never held direct communication with his sou, nor has Mrs. Dyer, but in their son, Herbert, a boy of seventeen, they believe they have a medium with great psychic powers. When this boy is absent they can get no contact wliateveiwith the dead; when, he is present they have never failed to do so. One evening, in the presence of a number of neighbors, a strange light appeared in the darkness of their dooiway and moved towards the table On another occasion they .heard tapping, and the boy Herbert went out into the hall. He. seemed to be frightened) at what he' saw, and they followed him out. They saw nothing, but heard footsteps descending the stairs. The door of the kitchen was latched, but swung open, xuev shut it and ft opened again. Again they shut it, and it was flunsr violently open. The men saw nothing, but say they felt people brush oast them.

■ A banjo belonging to the dead hov was seen to move in broad daylight from where it is kept on the floor and back again. It pluyed tunes as it. lay in the lap of the boy Herbert, wlm can’." 4 lumsolf day a note of music. Mrs. Dyer says she cannot keep a tablecloth on the table Whenever she puts one on the table it is violently shaken and the content,rupset. Watches are taken from tinpockets and then reappear. Tin canisters leap across the room, and on one occasion a walnut table was smashed'.to pieces in the dark. Visitors say that they have heard Hells ringing above their heads and all about them . while sitting in the Dyer house. /