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the evening missourian (columbia, mo.) 1917-1920 — haunted house

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1920-05-01
Location: columbia, missouri, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the evening missourian (columbia, mo.) 1917-1920 · 1920-05-01 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1920-05-01 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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CHILDHOOD'S HAUNTED HOUSES Is there not one of us who does not remember the haunted house of his childhood? Peculiar, unbllevable, were the sounds which issued there from. Light flashed in the night, shrieks split the morning air, they said. Children were always so in tensely curious to know, the mystery of the big, unpainted house. Deep and all-speculative were the child hood discourses in fence corners or ham lofts of the new specters seen by someone who knew someone else who heard of another who told a new story for the truth and crossed his heart to prove he was not fooling. Now the b!g house with its broken panes, ...

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