Haunted house.
We give place to the following to amuse our readers, not to impose on their credulity: They will consider it as a story similar to the Cock-lane ghost, or the dancing plates and dishes at Stockwell.
A house in Peter-street, Saffron-hill, is said to have been lately haunted, and in such a manner, that a young girl, about eleven years of age, could not go about the house without having all kinds of things thrown at her by an invisible hand, such as dishes, plates, cups, saucers, flat irons, brick bats, &c. &c.
A long story is told of the cause of the girl’s being so troubled; it is that her father was a runner, and apprehended Lowe and Jobbins, the incendiaries at Portsmouth; that he possessed a trunk of Jobbins’s; that old Jobbins (the father) lately died raving mad, and his spirit haunts the house, on account of the trunk.The girl too has read the prayer-book backwards, and has seen the devil.
Crowds of people frequented the place for several days; the girl’s hands were tied, and she was followed upstairs, when a flat iron was directly thrown at her, and no person observed to do it.
However on Tuesday last, two ministers (Clergymen) attended to lay the spirit, which they effected, and no more noise has since been heard.
Stamford Mercury, 28th December 1792.