A Californian Ghost.
There has been much excitement at Valetto about a noisy ghost which haunts a house there. A number of armed men have watched night after night for the supposed humbugger, but have failed to discover him, though the loudest kind of a knocking was kept up in the house, while they were in it.
One of the watchers is reported by a correspondent of The Alta to have given his experience thus: “Wall, I have been thar and its thar sure, and any man don’t believe it, can go and see for himself. I’ve been in Mexico and sat on the dead greasers and played ‘seven up,’ and don’t believe in nothing; I was wide awake and it came and knocked like a horse, right in front of where we stood. I don’t know what it is or can be, but it’s thar, and I don’t go there no more.”
That must be a “genuine, original” ghost, if he has succeeded in convincing and scaring a Mexican hero who “don’t believe in nothing,” and could play “all fours” while sitting on a dead “greaser.” – California paper.
Durham County Advertiser, 8th April 1859.