Saturday night he was convinced that there was something wrong, for approaching the house after dark he saw a figure dancing in front of him, which vanished when he hurried toward it and raising, about midnight he was struck across the face with a hand so hard that the prints of four fingers were left there.
This settled the question. The Reisners left the house incontinently, carrying their clothes with them, and dressing in the open air. They refused to re-enter the house and moved Monday. The house is now vacant, except as to balls of fire and mysterious figures which the neighbors declare can be seen there nightly. No one has been brave enough to solve the mystery.
From—
The Wahpeton Times. (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]), 16 May 1889.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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