A Girl of Strange Powers.
Her mere presence causes a regular rumpus among furniture.
There have been several remarkable stories of girls in America being the mysterious means of commotion around them, and now we get a similar yarn from South Carolina. Her name is Daisy Robinson, and she is described as an ordinary-looking coloured girl, 12 years old.
The first demonstration was the falling over of a sideboard upon the floor, and a short while after a water-bucket was thrown from a shelf, striking the girl upon the shoulder. Her mother, thinking that the room was haunted, moved into another, when the same agency moved tables over the floor, and dishes, pitchers, smoothing-irons and other household articles could not be kept in their places.
Consequently an investigation of the strange power was made. In the girl’s room were a bed, a bureau, a cupboard, and a small chair. The household crockeryware – or rather all that was left of it, for it had nearly all been broken – was packed away in a bucket under the bed. For a few minutes the party was silent, awaiting developments, but gradually a genearl conversation was indulged in upon the subject, each member of the party keeping an eye on Daisy.
Suddenly a large, heavy teacup was thrown upon the floor. It spun round a few times and rolled into the fireplace. Cups, plates, saucers, vases, shoved tongs, candlesticks, kerosene lamps, and fire-dogs leaped into the centre of the room, sometimes being broken into atoms and at other times not being injured at all. The whole room was afterwards examined, and was found to be closely sealed above and all around. The floor is tight, and a careful examination from the outside failed to reveal a crack that even a 10-cent piece could have been thrown through.
Daisy was removed to another room, and the same singular occurrences manifested themselves in the new locality. While Daisy was eating, the bedstead in the room was actually wrenched to pieces by an unseen power. Doctors of medicine and divinity were present at this strange sight, and the crowds that gathered around the house were so large that a policeman had to be detailed to keep out the throng. As yet not the faintest hint at a solution of the matter has been given.
Evening News (London), 6th January 1890.