Word: ghosted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ghost Notes...
...with considerable interest that I read your Feb. 18 article "Ghost Stories." You refer to the "lens-shy ghost" who smashed the photographer's camera as a "poltergeist." That term is usually used to describe ghosts who throw things about. I had some experience with these "unquiet spirits" when I lived in a certain house in Glen Cove, L.I. several years...
...finds it necessary to declare solemnly that he has never fallen for phony horror stories-or for Red-baiting. To buttress the point, he cites his distaste for Wood-row Wilson's witch-hunting Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who comes into the book as a stray ghost from a poignantly innocent past. The U.S. has lost its innocence about Communism, but still, Michener asks himself whether his story will be believed in all its details by a prosperous and relatively carefree nation. He cites Mrs. Maria Marothy, who now Jives in Ohio. Michener wonders: If some...
...Shane's own original contribution to his collection is what he calls "the last word" on the Coonian Ghost-a Thing that troubled the peace of a house in Coonian, Ireland with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what...
...required to enact again and again. Missionaries told the Urubu Indians about the Christ child long ago; but then the missionaries sailed away, leaving Maïr in full possession. Today, only dogs, chickens and ducks are deemed the creations of the Christ child. Everything else is ghosts and spirits-and an impressive ghost gallery it is. Anyang, "the spirit of the dead," walks about moaning "Meh, meh, meh," and will "eat your soul" unless you hum back at him in a gentle singsong. Tall Timakanā, "the leg-bone ghost," has big, swollen knees that beat together when...