A Mystery Baffles the Scientific Strange "manifestations" have occurred at a house in Ferreston Road, Hornsey, which has been reputed to be in the possession of some tricky sprite which levitates furniture, throws coal about, and generally plagues the inmates.
Mrs. Frost, the wife of the tenant, states that. a chair was. lifted from the floor in one of the bedrooms and propelled by an invisible agency on to a bed where one of the children was sleeping. There were also disturbances. in the kitchen. Psychical and scientific searchers visited the house to try to determine the cause of these queer phenomena. An investigator gave the following account of his personal experiences.
"On Monday," he said, "I had only just entered the hall when I was met by a great shower of coal coming down the stairs. I rushed upstairs, but though I examined every room and cupboard I could find no one there. Five or ten minutes later we were coming downstairs again when we were met by another shower of coal.
"On Tuesday as soon as I entered the hall again, a crumb brush came flying out of the dining-room. tan into the room, and a_ biscuit bowl tumbled off the sideboard. When I left the house and was entering my own gate I heard a tremendous crash. Going back I found that three glass dishes had fallen off the sideboard, and had been shivered to atoms.
"On Wednesday I had been sit. ting in the dining-room with several other inquirers. We were rising to go, when we heard the thud of something falling near the window. It was a heavy ash-tray, which the people of the house said usually stood on a smoker's tray at the
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