Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — A STRANGE STORY. [ARTICLE]

A STRANGE STORY.

The New of the sth inst. condenses from the country papers of Louisiana some details thijft we should like to have seen published ini,full. The following mysterious affair, for instance, has the usual enchantment of ghosCtsstories and haunted houses for us, and we could wish to'see more of that “desolate house,” where a “monster” gets to be| affectionate, and of that grave-yard vvheref a big snake eats the mysterious victuals of^a:tomb-stone. The story comes from the Plaquemines Pilot. After speaking of produced by strange and supernatural phenomena at Mr. Landsman’s plq<?e, (Cheniere Ronquille,) the Pilot gives the following particulars, which certainly appear rather tough: “Imagine yourself in this desolate house, and when you are about to leave it you are caught in the arms of a monster, and held so tight thdt it is impossible to get away until it thinks proper to release you. It has not yet been ascertained whether this monster is mortal or spiritual, as it takes different forms; to-day it is one form, and to-morrow it is another. “And now comes the most remarkable of all. On the tomb of i gentleman lately deceased there is placed every day a clean plate with a dressed chicken on it, when from behind the tomb comes a large chicken in the form of a snake nine or ten feet long, with a monster head something ak n to an alligator, and commetpces leisurely to devour the delicately-prepared fowl. As soon as it finishes, it disappears. No one knows whither, and you s a e nothing but the plate and the bones, and eitpry day the same thing is renewed.” The Pilot thinks the sea serpent may have taken up his residence, there.