GHOST ON FARM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 9

GHOST ON FARM.

NOISES OVER THE RADIO. MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE. TOULOUSE, Feb. 11. The whole of France listencd-in to an attempt to broadcast sounds in a haunted farmhouse in the village of Daux, reputed to be the meeting place of spirits. A speech by the Mayor preceded the broadcast, which was an indecisive noise, indistinguishable from atmospherics. The Mayor explained that the mysterious occurrences at the farmhouse included an epidemic— a mixture of influenza and palsy. lie had heard noises suggesting that the house was collapsing. A farmer's wife sworo she saw a white person emerge from the chimney, and residents of the village discovered the contents of the house to bo topsy-turvy. The Mayor convened the council, which summoned an Italian priest, who had rid an Italian village of the evil. " If he cannot exorcise the evil spirits from tho tarm," the Mayor said, "wo intend to burn it." Ghosts apparently are also busy in England, according to the Daily Sketch, which describes tho pranks of a muscular spook at a rectory in Suffolk. The ghost, it is stated, throws iron bars, pepper and bricks at the rector and his wife. It is alleged to have broken windows and also to have blackened tho rector's eye.