The ghostly stone-throwing at the haunted house of Upholland, which has been going on with such unabated spiritual vigour, reminds a correspondent of an even more mysterious case of a quarter of a century ago. In this case the weird scenes were enacted on a Westmorland farm. At a certain hour of the day, in broad sunlight, stones of considerable size began to issue from this farmhouse, and the missiles sent by the unseen agency always fell within a certain radius. The police took the matter in hand. Each day, as the moment for the display arrived, a crowd gathered round the farm. Sometimes the stones seemed to come from the house, sometimes over it. The more the police probed the mystery the greater it became. At last the stones whence, were examined, and it was stated that the composition of them differed from that of any of the strata in the district. The mystery was never solved, and it remains a mystery to this day.
Manchester Guardian, 23rd August 1904.