The Paris Ghost.
It may be remembered that about two years ago the French Papers gave an account of a great number of stones thrown by invisible hands, for several successive days, to the great endamagement of the windows, jars, and crockery of an honest grocer in the rue d’Enfer. The author of this pretty piece of mischief was never, as far as we heard, discovered; and the supposed supernatural visitation put all Paris for a time into a ferment.
Another mystification of the same kind has been carrying on in the course of the last week, much to the annoyance of M. Maurice, a printer, in the rue Galande – with this difference, however, that instead of stones, pieces of wood, that come nobody knows whence, are the missiles employed by the invisible goblin.
Not a window in the house has escaped. The colours, saucers, &c. of Madame Maurice, who is an artist, have suffered no less. Her husband, fully persuaded that the whole may be resolved into natural causes, has called in the assistance of M. Comte, physician to the King, who has examined every place with great minuteness, but his discoveries have been so little satisfactory, that M. Maurice has not ventured to repair the damage.
Bucks Gazette, 10th October 1829.