Ghosts in Bainbridge (??) 1895

Ghosts in Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY

Morning Sun, Norwich, NY, April 17, 1895

There is a mysterious object which sends cold chills up the backs of pedestrians who happen to be journeying in the vicinity of Pearl and Main streets, evenings, after dark.  It requires many conjectures to understand the mystery of the appearance of this person whose actions are strange and spooky.  A distant and frightened opinion imagines the object to be a woman in male attire, either demented or one desirous to annoy the people.

 

Wednesday evening as "Billy" Eccleston and Nathan Hinman, were walking along Pearl street about 8 o'clock, this person attired in a long overcoat, wearing a slouch hat, drawn partly over the face and with features of a woman, stood motionless in the ditch and then upon the approach of the parties ran out in the road and stood in the deepest mud, staring with huge eyeballs, retreating at an approach of the parties and then followed them when they continued their way.  A number of others, among whom were W. B. Matterson, Joe Spohn, and "The" Hutchinson, saw the person or spook on West Main street and deemed her--as there was no doubt she was a woman--very incomprehensible.

 

Perhaps the mystery would have been solved had the boys more chivalry, and bravery, to have shaken hands with the female spook.  Before a crowd could collect this being vanished.  The mystery of the performance has attracted much talk and speculation. This object has been around before, late at night.  If there are ghosts in Bainbridge it will be known for parties are "watching out" for a capture--Bainbridge Republican.