A profitable ghost.
During the past week Mr Lowe, landlord of the Tiger public house, at Wirksworth, has been greatly alarmed by a noise in one of the sleeping rooms, similar to the hopening and shutting of a box with great violence, and sometimes it appeared as if a table leaf was flapping backward and forward. The noise was so loud as to be heard by the neighbours, as well as by Lowe and his family.
The ghost is not visible, but many out of curiosity have been induced to visit the room in which its terrifying pranks were played. Crowds of people have also been collected outside the house, to listen to the intruder, which has caused a deal of money to be spent, and been the means of filling Boniface’s pockets and emptying his cellars.
Thursday evening, a party of respectable gentlemen met by appointment at the Tiger, with the intention of attempting to allay the ghost, but it did not choose to exhibit before so large an audience, although several staid till past the witching hour of night. The performance usually commenced between ten and eleven. – Chesterfield Courier.
Hampshire Advertiser, 28th June 1834.
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