GHOSTS THAT KISS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20874, 14 November 1929, Page 18

GHOSTS THAT KISS.

SECRET OF FARMHOUSE. THE SPIRIT OF CUPID. An English journal publishes the story of how fearful ghosts, who occupied a deserted farmhouse in a lonely valley near Axininster, South Devon, and had terrified a number of superstitious countryfolk, were laid by a callous Londoner. Weird noises, scuffling, and mysterious footsteps had made the countryfolk firmly believe that the building was haunted. The farmhouse was once prosperous, but is now derelict. Men and women were afraid to pass at night, so a Londoner decided to investigate. Up a winding Devonshire lane, round' an old-fashioned stone cottage with thatched roof, and then down, down, down into the valley of strange noises. “ Soon,” says the writer, “ I came to the bottom of the leafy tunnel and on to a rippling brook crossed by a plank in a very precarious condition. The deserted farm loomed up out of the gloom. I was approaching the abode of ghosts—alone. “ And I heard the noises, strangesounding, whispering noises coming from the long windowless holes in the sides of the tumbling-down stone farmhouse. Noises. And, as I approached closer, scuffling. There was no doubt about the tales then that the village had brought home for so long—years they said. I went closer to the windows. “ The only supernatural ‘ spirit ’ in that lonely farmhouse was the great one of love—active-always little Cupid. For the whispers were the sweet-nothings that love-lorn swains tell to their ‘only ones.’ The ghosts were courting^’couples who, to gain loneliness, had allowed the story of the ghost-hauuted farm to remain unchallenged.” It was a pity to spoil so charming a thrill. Neither those old country folk who really thrilled in their belief of local spirits nor the cause of tlfb “ weird noises” will thank the writer for this revelation. But in the great cause of truth he says he had to make it.