Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1890 — AN INDIAN GHOST STORY. [ARTICLE]

AN INDIAN GHOST STORY.

A Kansas College Professor Tells a Weird Tale. A college profeasor who was stopping at a house near Harrington, Kan., was awakened by a light in his room, and, white with terror, he looked out from his bed to see an Indian in full war paint, but as ethereal as a wraith, standing before him, beokoning. He followed, and was lead to the grand parlor on the floor beneath, where in a circle, with the beautiful paintings, the upright piano, the book oases and the portiers for the background, stood a group of ghastly warriors, each with stern and solemn countenance. Silently they excavated a shallow grave in the parlor floor and brought one of their number—a ghostly corpse —and led him therein. Then while the professor stood with hair erect and starting eyes, they circled about the grave (or what appeared to be such), and finally filed out through the door. There was a slamming of window blinds a rattling of casements and a whirl of damp air, and the professor stood alone in the great parlor with the piano and books about him. He returned to his room, and the next day, taking a hint from his night’s experience, examined oarefully the debris thrown out by the workmen excavating the cellar. He found unmistakable evidences that the height had been used as a burial ground by the Indian tribes in the past. The spectral funeral which he witnessed was the repetition of one of their old burials.