Plice Hunt Ghost
Stone-throwing at night
From our own correspondent, Avignon, Sunday.
Thirty men armed with rifles are helping the police to scour the countryside round the village of St. Victor for a stone-throwing ghost.
M. Vincent, hitherto St. Victor’s baker, recently became a postman in another part of the country, and since his departure his wife, left alone in their house, has been disturbed by nightly volleys of stones. The stones crash down a staircase in the house.
All the able-bodied villagers congregated one night to investigate. The presence of so many strangers made the ghost shy, but when the mayor shouted, “If you are there, Mr Ghost, throw a stone,” the ghost readily obliged with a stone as big as a man’s fist.
The roof was found intact, every skylight was walled up and the house was closely watched. The only result has been that the ghost has added marbles, sugar lumps and cakes of soap to the list of missiles.
Daily News (London), 22nd February 1937.