great falls tribune (great falls, mont.) 1921-current — haunted house
- Date of account
- Newspaper page published 1922-02-25
- Location
- great falls, montana, united states
- Source
- Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
- Reference
- great falls tribune (great falls, mont.) 1921-current · 1922-02-25 · page 03
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English OCR
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
A 1922-02-25 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.
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention only... Pierce is reserving decision. The "haunted house" is the old homestead of Alex ander MacDonald, 100 miles, as the crow flies, from Hali fax. In the dead of winter, Mr. MacDonald, his wife and their adopted daughter fled the house, terrorized by un seen "things" that had chased his horse to a lather, the farmer said, braided the tails of his cattle and started mysterious fires of ordinarily highly combustible materials in his house. So seriously was the tale taken by the countryside that the Halifax Herald and the provincial police sent representatives to stay three nights and days in the "haunted house." They returned a week ago with shaken nerves, indorsing the farmer's story ...
Historical context
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Modern context
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