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Mpling up and down stairs by day and by night to be heard, but no one to be seen, as well as knockings on the…

Date of account: Published 1857
Source: The Spirit Land
Reference: The Spirit Land · selected passage 152
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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mpling up and down stairs by day and by night to be heard, but no one to be seen, as well as knockings on the walls and in the cellars; but, however suddenly a person flew to the place to try to detect whence the noise proceeded, they could see nothing. If they went outside, the knocking was immediately heard inside, and vice versa._ The noises at length became so perplexing, that her father declared that he could live in the house no longer. They were not only audible to every body in the house, but to the passengers in the street, who stopped to listen to them as they passed. Whenever there was playing on the piano, and singing, sounds would commence on the walls."

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