A Ghost.
After noticing that for some time the Chalet or Swiss cottage of M. Guttinguor, at St. Gatien, on the skirts of the Forest of Pennedepie, had been disturbed by strange and unaccountable noises, which the country people attributed to a ghost, goes on to say [sic] – “On Tuesday last, knockings were heard at the doors of all the apartments of the house: and, though they had been locked by the man in charge, were all found open in the morning.
On Wednesday, a decorator employed at the Chalet and intending to sleep there, having no faith in ghosts locked all the doors himself, and took the keys into his own room. During the night, the watchman called him up to show him the ghost, and in fact, he saw in an outer gallery a figure all in white resembling a camel, making motions with its head. The watchman fired upon the apparition, which immediately leaped down from the gallery upon a clump of rose trees, uttering cries which were not those which a camel or any other animal, brute or human, was likely to make.
The decorator would have pursued the discomfitted spectre, but was prevented by the necessity of attending to two women in the house, who had fainted from affright, and before he was at liberty the nocturnal visitor had disappeared. On examining the rooms, all the doors were found wide open; the carpets had been rolled up, with the covers thrown out on the staircase. The watchman also became ill, complaining that he had received a violent blow on the chest while levelling his gun at the ghost; but we imagine it was from the recoil of his own piece.
But since that night no supernatural object has been seen about the place.
Kentish Independent, 6th April 1844.