Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

«*** P.ssmjira. I A respectable farmer named Petersen, who owns a place a few mules from town, says a Fernandina special to the Philadelphia Times, brings a curious story of a ghost that haunts his cornfield and plows bv moonlight. He says that he first noticed the apparition about a month, ago when, sitting up with n sick - child. He to look out on tbe field about, midnight, and to his amazement he saw the .figure of a man guiding an on team over tbeground. The animals, - man, andplow were all as plain to be seen as if it bad been daylight, though the rest of the field was in comparative gloom. Not knowing wbat to make of this singular sight he called-his eldest son to go and see who the stranger was. The boy went at once, and bis father, watching him. was further amazed to see the lad walk right through the plow and man as if there was nothing there. ’-.When the boy returned he declared that he had. found nothing and nobody in the field. Mr. Petersen himself now resolved to go, and did so, but could see no trace of the man and team, though on returning to the room from which he had seen the sight he found them as plain as before. The laborer and woro a large, broad" brimmed hat, which completely concealed his features. He seemed intent on bis work and never raised his head, but would crack the whip he carried over the backs of the oxen, but without noise. Since this time Mr. Petersen says he has repeatedly seen the phantom plowman and has called in neighbors to see it with him, though always on going into the field nothing could be found. The people about declare that the figure is that of the farmer who owned the place before Petersen bought it, and who early one morning was found dead in this Sold, and it was thought by his own hand.