[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 3) - by Walter Hubbell ] Supper is just over. Dan and Olive are in the parlor. Jane is up stairs in her room, talking to Esther who has retired early; it being only seven o’clock, she asks Esther: “How long she is going to continue to worry herself about Bob?” Not receiving a reply, she puts on her heavy sack and remarks: “I am going over to see Miss Porter, and will soon return; it is so damp and foggy to-night that, I declare, it makes me feel sleepy too. I think I will follow your example, and retire early. Good night, I suppose you will be
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 2) - by Walter Hubbell ] Esther and Jane arose on the morning of August 28th, 1878, as was their usual custom, at half-past six, and ate breakfast with the rest of the family. After breakfast Jane went to Mrs. Dunlap’s, Dan to his shoe factory with his brother-in-law, William Cox, John Teed also went to his work, and none of the family remained in the house but Olive and Esther, who commenced to wash up the breakfast dishes and put the dining room in order, so that part of their work at least should be finished before the two little boys came down stairs to have their
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 1) - by Walter Hubbell ] A note to the reader: Being an account of the Mysterious Manifestations that have taken place in the presence of Esther Cox. The young Girl who is possessed of Devils, and has become known throughout the entire Dominion as ‘The Great Amherst Mystery’. During this account the author, Walter Hubbell lived in the house and wittnessed the manifestations.
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