GHOST SEEN IN COPSE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18547, 3 November 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

GHOST SEEN IN COPSE.

— A HAMPSHIRE SENSATION. A sensation has been caused in the villages of -Emswoith ard Havant (Hants) .- \ by a weird -story of the appearance of a ghost on the main Portsmouth-Chichester. „ road, where it passes -through , a copse . -. , known as " Bere Block Dell." . ' , 5 Many people claim to have seen this »p-,: ■ •; parition, and curious folk have visited thenspot on Various nights, hoping to discover , something about the strange phenomenon. -.: m >A young /man of Emsworth, Frank" Hartly, said he was certain that he m*' the ghost about 10 o'clock one Sunday ' " night. . " . " -' " " Two cyclists," he declared in an ■ . interview, "dismounted in front of . roe - and one of them exclaimed, ' Good'! j Heavens! Look at that! , , >" "' "In the/ middle of .the road was. the (■ , vapoury outline of. a tall man, standing , erect, with his hands held closely by his sides. , - ;" A motor-car was approaching, and I was startled JVlto";>see : ; the ghostly form gradually accentuated in the rays of the /-||| brilliant "headlights. Motionless it stood. .•; - there. The car seemed to pass right „ ; through the object, and the apparition >, ) was seen; no more."'. ■'--;' ; •"''-■;]• v./' --'^^1 The sDectre also terxin«d an Emsworth ; lady, who asserts unhesitatingly that sb» - v ; was alone with her dog, which barked in j ft frightened manner and crouched close to her. " Her account of i the phenomenon agrees f with that of Hartly. She hurried home*-;,. - in great alarm. ■. . • • 'A\'l% Local history has it that Ben; Block 'fc. '•■ Dell was frequented -by ; smugglers m»>»y,i years ago and that tho" ghost of a matt \, murdered there still / haunts; the wood. ',- _