The strange case of bouncing' Bertha, the nine-year-old mountain girl who: complains that she cannot sleep because an evil spirit shakes her out of bed, has drawn scores of the curious to the Wallins Creek section.
Bertha Marie Sybert, who lives with her 71-year-old ' grandmother, Mrs. Rebecca Jane Sybert, said she was "sore all over" because the spin made her bed bounce. She wished the thing would leave me alone." tha said the spirit "has followed to. bed for 35 nights in a row." She convinced her credulous neigh-hours that either she or the bed has been bewitched. The "spirit" began known bed-shaker, and that by saying "shake-shake big" she could make the bed bounce: violently.
There are three beds in the room, two with springs and one "solid." Bertha said she tried them all, but the disturbance described by her "very phenomenal super-it" followed her from "Even when she tried a neigh-hour's suggestion and curled up on the floor with a pillow under her head," Mr. Sybert said, "the pillow began to vibrate and bounce just as it had on the bed. Her life is sure miserable."
Mr. Raymond Miner, a neighbour, said. "I and four others were over the other night. Bertha decided to sit up in a chair and not go to bed for a bouncing Bertha's bed on November while. When the time came for the
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