Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1902 — GHOST POINTED OUT GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GHOST POINTED OUT GOLD.

Directed by Spirit of His Wife, Farmer Found a Nugget. John Starms, a farmer and well-to-do citizen of this county, was here recently exhibiting a nugget of virgin gold weighing four ounces. He said: “Last Monday night I could not sleep, and while I ivas awake my wife, who has been dead twenty-seven years, came and stood by my bed and talked to me. 1 saw her as plainly as I ever did when she was alive, and heard her natural voice. She asked me many questions about different events, and then told me that it l would go to a certain spot on my farm 1 would find gold—plenty of gold. She clearly indicated the place and then she vanished. “Before it was light 1 was on my way to the spot and found it without any difficulty. I took my son with me, and we began to search for the gold, and 1 found this lump. My son found several smaller lumps and also fragments of gold-bearing quartz. I lieve there is a valuanle gold nAiieat this place, and I Intend to have an investigation made.”—Concord, N. C.. correspondence Chicago Inter-Ocean.