Singular Occurrence.
A few nights ago, a man, his wife, and son, living in the neighbourhood of Lammack, Blackburn, were awakened from their slumbers about midnight by a tremendous noise downstairs, as if the table and chairs were being rapidly moved across the floor. The sound had in it something very weird. The son got up and went downstairs, under the idea that his father and mother were having a disturbance, but finding that they were not there, and that the furniture was exactly in the same position in which it stood when he went to bed, he went upstairs again in great alarm, and with a face as white as a sheet.
Ignorant of the fact that their son had been downstairs, the man and his wife also went down, and were in like manner mystified and frightened. They came to the conclusion ultimately that some one had been trying to steal some of their poultry, which occupied an empty house adjoining, and that in their attempt they had knocked something down, and created the disturbance.
Nothing, however, could be found next morning, and the man, who does not seem an individual who would be easily frightened, or particularly credulous, alleges that the table and chairs were moved about by some supernatural meas. The affair, which has been up to the present involved in mystery, created considerable excitement in the district.
Lancashire Evening Post, 28th September 1887.