A True Ghost Story or Three nights in a haunted house and a brief sketch of superstition by Lewis Scaife. History of Paranormal and Supernatural phenomena.

The belief in ghosts or in ultra-rational spiritual manifestations is almost as old as the human race itself and the legends and folklore of every people embody, more or less, some weird, strange stories which are handed down from generation to generation, and like the slowly moving water dropping from ledge to ledge along the lonely mountain side, it increases in volume as it descends.

Superstition pervaded the every-day life of all ancient people and among the great men of old who were given to superstitious speculations we find the names of Hippocrates, vEschylus, Virgil, Homer and Horace ; and even in more modern times, such men as Chaucer, Roger Bacon, Baron Napier, Tycho Brahe, Francis Bacon, Kepler, Flamstead and JohnJ Dryden were believers in a " night side of nature.