Town Council Meets in “Haunted House.”
Members flee from a ghost.
Prague, Friday.
When the Commissioner of Police in the town of Dvur Kralove was awakened one night recently by ghostly knocking on his beddroom walls, he thought it was a matter for the town council to investigate. So the town council appointed a committee of 12, to keep watch in the “haunted house.” The committee stayed through the night, but were too frightened to solve the mystery.
So a committee of 15 was appointed to carry on the investigation. They arrived at the house at eleven o’clock at night and stayed long enough for the rappings and moaning of the ghost. Then they fled, falling into the arms of a crowd that was waiting outside for the verdict.
Now the policeman has moved, and the investigation of the town council has been “postponed.” The mystery has been entrusted to the building committee to solve – some time. It is reported that a woman was at one time murdered in the house by her husband. It is said that the husband’s spirit is bound to the scene of his crime.
Halifax Evening Courier, 17th March 1933.