[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 6) - by Walter Hubbell ] Esther is living with her friends the Van Amburgh’s, on their farm in the woods. The ghosts do not torment her now. With the Van Amburghs she has a quiet, peaceful home. One thing is certain, if she returned to Dan’s cottage manifestations would, in a short time, become as powerful as ever, and Heaven only knows where the matter would end. The author went to see her at the farm, On August 1st, 1879, and found her
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 5) - by Walter Hubbell ] I closed my engagement with the Dramatic Company of which I was a member, in Newfoundland, and went to Amherst, to expose, if possible, Esther Cox, the great Amherst Mystery. Where occasion requires allusion to myself, I shall simply say the author. At seven o’clock on the morning of June 21st, 1879, as the sun was shining brightly, and the cool breeze was blowing from the bay, the author entered the haunted house. After placing his umbrella in a corner of the dining room, and his satchel on the table, he
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 4) - by Walter Hubbell ] When John White took Esther to his house to reside, he performed a charitable deed, which no man in the village but himself had the heart to do. Both he and his good wife showed, by the kindness with which they treated the poor unhappy girl, that Heaven had at least inspired two hearts with that greatest of all virtues—Charity. It was now January, 1879,—just four months since the manifestations first commenced. Esther had been at White’s residence for two weeks, and had not seen anything of the ghost. She had
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