Mounties can’t get their ghost.
Flat irons that ‘walked’ down stairs.
Windows smashed.
Such curious things have been happening in the little farmhouse of Mr John Quinn, at Burgess Township (Ontario) that the Canadian Mounted Police have been called in to “get their ghost” – so far without success.
Pieces of firewood have been leaping out of the kitchen wood-box; Three flat-irons ‘walked’ down a stair-case, one step at a time; A foot-long beef bone thrown from the house repeatedly flew back through a window; A tea kettle jumps off the stove; Every pane in every window of the house has been broken – by whom nobody knows.
Mr William Cordick, a neighbour, declares he saw the flat-irons “walking” down the stairs. The Rev. Father Whelan, the parish priest, was there when a window was shattered, and can think of no explanation for the happening, as nobody was seen outside at the time. Mr Andres Burke, another farmer, says he saw windows breaking and stones dropping as if there was no human force behind them.
The “Ghost of Burgess Township” is the greatest mystery the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ever been asked to solve.
Nottingham Evening Post, 26th January 1935.
“Haunted” Farm. But the “Mounties” got their ghost.
Canadians have immense faith in their “Mounties” – Royal Canadian Mounted Police – but even the most loyal followers wagged their heads gravely when the “Mounties” were asked to find the “ghost” of Burgess Township in Ontario last January, reports Reuter. But they need not have worried. The “Mounties” have “got their ghost” in their usual efficient manner.
The farmhouse of John Quinn was the scene of strange happenings. Flat-irons “walked” downstairs, windows were shattered, bones hurled themselves through open windows and the kettle hopped off the stove. Neighbours declared the place was haunted.
Now, after three months’ patient search, a 13-year-old boy has been arrested, and, according to the police, he has admitted he was responsible for all the “supernatural” happenings of last January.
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 1st April 1935.