HOUSE OF MYSTERY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7

HOUSE OF MYSTERY

tappings and. Footsteps IRON DOOR BELOW FLpOR EERIE NIQHT NOISES SYDNEY, Dee. 15. Ghost s—on a farm near' Sydney in 1930! >- The thing seems too fantastic, ■ tut there can be no doubt that a reputable family went through some queer experiences on this farm. One • Sunday newspaper has written',a statement by- a member of this family, with a full description of the farm and Its locality. His own story is as follows:—-

On October 15 he was out of work, and .made arrangements to inspect Dje farm, and paid a deposit on it .next day, with option of purchase if- it proved satisfactory. He went there with his wife, mother, invalid father, brother, and Iwo young children. •.(•V'-tVf This is his story:— ‘ ' “We moved in on Sunday, 'October 19, arriving at 8 p/m., and’- all •• slept soundly. The house had yery'big.’rooms, with a verandah running nil round. Th© nex"! day a neighbor called and told-us that we would not stay, but Would leave as others had done. He would give flo explanation, and 1 thought him a bit silly. ..V-'.G?;; .c..; : . “At night we were playing cards, when a knock .sounded on the door. My brother , and I went- out aud'Ayalked, ail round Hie verandah.. but could fiijd nothing. We Went track to our) game, but an hour afterwards a drumming tap-tap-tapping sounded on tile floor. “TRAIN UNDERFLOOR” .- “Aly brother and I went under the house, but thero was^.nothing there, except the skeleton of a cow. The ne!xt bight the same tiling happened and this went on for a week. .

“Another neighbor told my wife 'that the place had once been owned by - a German Count, who disappeared mysteriously. I laughed at 'such rot, but that verv night my wife and I were awakened by a noise like a train under > the floor. ' ' »• . - “We had been in the place about three weeks, and the tapping still continued. One night I was walking in (the back yard when something like a fqj'lp passed in front of me. Have you-ever seen a stream of steam shoot out of the ground, such ns you would see. at Rotorua? Well, this.filmy thing passed -in front of me, went away and returned again. I am not a coward. bub'-iC gave me a creepy feeling... Then it faded away.” - . ,\ ' ' L" \

. . LURKER BEHIND DOOR ‘"T Similar events, followed, .aind footsteps were heard in the hall at night, .but no intruder could evferbe surprised. '; One clay the two brothers-,./investi-gated thoroughly under -the howi-hrid thereby found'an iron doofT’Seveh 'by'. feet, and too heavyj.to- move. . They think that someone-lurks behind this door, and that a-lOirt key which hangs in one of the rooms fits 'its lock, but neither of the brothers ever entered this room. “I can’t toll you why,” says * the informant. ■> ' •G ■ -

He and his family moved out after nearly a month of ' these ghostly knockings, and since then another family, has moved in—and deserted again.