GHOST ABOUT
Submitted by Martha J. Kounse

SOURCE: Ironton Register June 27, 1867

A month or so ago, a house in East Ironton was visited by most appalling denizen of ghost land. It appeared as a woman in a nude state, horribly cut, with blood trickling from the numerous gashes. At that time, it was seen by two young ladies, standing at the head of the stairs. A couple of days after it appeared again to the same young ladies, at the same place and time of day. They were badly frightened and fled, screaming loudly. Subsequently the family moved from the house, and another family went it.

Last Tuesday week a young lady belonging to the house was going up stairs, when upon nearing the platform, the image appeared to her in all its bloody terrors. As quick as she caught a glimpse of it, she ran, but her friends so ridiculed her that she assumed unconcerned about the matter. But on last Friday, as she was going up the stairs she saw it again on the landing, and was so shocked by fright that she fell the full length of the stairs. Her screams attracted the rest of the family and the neighbors, who found her lying on the floor almost in paroxysms of death.

After considerable time she was restored by assistance and taken to another house. Since then she has not been home, and declares that she will not enter the house again.

The most singular feature connected with this strange spectral illusion, is its appearance every time at exactly three o'clock in the afternoon. It has been unexceptionably the case heretofore, that characters like the one above mentioned, and ghosts generally made their appearance in the night. The ghost of Hamlet's father left, we believe, when the 'glow worm showed the matin the be near." There is talk sometimes of ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon, but of the sun-never.