A "GHOST" IN YELLOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12818, 18 March 1905, Page 2 (Supplement)

A "GHOST" IN YELLOW.

BARRACKS "HAUNTED" BY A WOMAN.

"Not for £100 would I again go through the experience," is the declaration of a gentleman living at Rhymney, South Wales, who, with companions, recently set himself to lay a "ghost" which is said to haunt the local Salvation Army Barracks. The spectre takes the form of a tall, stout' ly-built lady clad in yellow, with a drawn face of ghastly hue, and terrible gleaming eyes. Salvation Army lasses are not usually given to romancing, but the young lady captain of the barracks has been so unnerved that she will not enter the place. "I have not actually seen tho spirit, or whatever it may be," she said, " but a few months ago I heard a mysterious rustling sound as if some woman were walking close past me. On tho Wednesday night I distinctly felt an arm placed across the bed." Her female colleague, a lieutenant, has seen the spectre, and has in consequence received such a shock that she is now prostrate. This woman first saw the spectre when she was sweeping the stairs at the barracks. Suddenly the tall woman in yellow walked with noiseless steps through the hall into the kitchen, where she seemed to melt into thin air. Two evenings later unaccountable knockings were heard in the hall. On the Wednesday night half-a-dozen men stopped in the house. About half-past four one of the watchers saw the "woman in yellow" passing a doorway, and, calling to his friends, he darted after her, but not a trace could be fouud. While the rest were away a tradesman went to another doorway, and there saw the ghostly visitant with the long, drawn face and the terrible, burning eyes. Alio tradesman managed to gasp out a question, asking the spectre if it were m trouble to say so "in God's name." At that expression the eves lit up with a still more unearthly radiance, and without a word the "ghost" glided away and was seen no more.