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the topeka state journal (topeka, kansas) 1892-1980 — haunted house

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1919-04-19
Location: topeka, kansas, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the topeka state journal (topeka, kansas) 1892-1980 · 1919-04-19 · page 11
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1919-04-19 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “haunted house”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... the very shadow of the haunted house. v And In the haunted house with the woman who built it lived syco phants and- toadies and cowardly schemers, who flattered the owner of the bouse and made a silly dupe of her. And the woman who built the haunted house died in a sanatorium, driven there by her own bitter hatred of her own kith arid kin. Haunted! Why, of course it is haunted. It was bound to be haunted from the very first day the first foundation stone was lata in hatred till the hour that the poor creature who tyiilt it died in delirious bitterness of heart, I have a friend who lives in ...

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