A mysterious haunted house is agitating superstitious souls near Simla. Down in a grove of deodar, sacred to the local deity, there stands a European house built many years ago. Some ten days since one of the deodar trees fell to the ground, and the wrath of the god has been displayed in an unpleasantly human manner. The occupants of the house have been constantly disturbed by showers of stones and missiles, and, in spite of police cordons and other precautions, the god’s agent has not been discovered. The disturbed tenant of the house has patrolled the grove with a double barrelled shot-gun, but the stones till pattered on his roof, and occasionally on his person.
Some ten years ago a superstitious native of Wales, unable to bear the displeasure of the god manifested ina similar manner, left the premises, but it may be hoped that the present occupant will continue to hold his own against this small-minded, stone-throwing divinity.
Graphic, 20th February 1886.