Show AN AN AUTHENTIC GHOST STORY Official Report of a Specter That Killed All to Whom It Gave Warning I In Iii one only one only nh one work one work of or modern skeptical literature are arc spirit tTe- tTe scribed stated as tu facts and anel otherwise treated as ns though they wore were as actual and and real nal al as rocks trees or animals That work is Savage Africa written by Mn Mr Winwood Inwood and believers ln In I the supernatural may take all the themore themore more more comfort to UJ themselves when they come to reflect that Reade was of ot the tame name school of or skeptical and calculating calculating ing InS materialists as nil Darwin Huxley and Lyell Nor 1 is the matter In question concerning tho the belles beliefs of or c certain African tribes It Is la a n. thing affecting a number of or white men educated edu In the same school of thought as us Reade and amI Darwin and who were witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses of ot the phenomena which Reade not only relate but upon which he be comments In the thc greatest seriousness ne s. s The c-ae c to which occupies an an entire chapter In Mr fr Reades Reade's work Is as ai follows Sierra Leone I Is the thc name namo of oC one of oC the British po possessions on the most unhealthy unhealthy unhealthy un un- un- un healthy section of or tho the globe the west coast const of oC Africa On a. a certain very ma ma- part of or the thc coast of oC Sierra Leone one 1 Is IR situated Macarthy's Island IslandS which for fOt many years Cars up until about 1870 was th the seat Beat of or a ar r very Important English trading post About the beginning be- be ginning of the thc year O a n certain Dr Beale Denle th the post physician and Wand surgeon On stationed at this point fell feU ill of ot malarial ma mn- lanai fever that ho he could not recover he lie notified Mr SaYa Savage e. e the trad trader r at nt the post PORt of oC his Condition whereupon upon the latter wrote a 0 letter to tho the firm in Bristol England owning and operating operating- tho the on the Island stating the doctors doctor's condition and requesting that another physician b bo be sent out to relieve him The rhe firm hirm responded sending pending a certain Dr Campbell Camp- Camp boll bell who arrived on th the island on the I ship Dover er on tho the cia day clay Bealo died Dr Beale had an as assistant a n young ph physician named Trestrail who on the day dar of oC his superiors superior's death set flet about writing writing- an official report of the case This he be never finished lIe He was sud- sud denI overcome by a virulent attack of oC malaria and died declaring he had seen Beale before he could finish the official statement Reade saw w the account account ac nc- ac- ac I count of Scales Scale's death that Trestrail I tried to write and describes It aa ru running running running run run- ning alan along smoothly enough for Cor several pages until Unal finally serious omissions begin to occur and the writing grows fainter an and fainter until It finally stops altogether Moreover the handwriting of ot the last four Cour pages paces of the thc account were so Jagged ged and Irregular that It was easy to see that the writer had been seized b by a chill or sudden valsy while writing It This was the thc beginning Three days later r Dr Campbell came to Mr Sa a Savage e and amI asked that his quarters be changed chang he hc having until then occupied the house houe formerly tenanted by Beale Deale and Trestrail In which both had died I At the same fame time Sa a Savage C saw that t Campbell was as looking hooking unusually pale and and unwell far different In fact from the condition In which he appeared th the cia day clay he arrived and asked him If anything anything any nn- thing was as wron wrong Campbell Campbel replied I I ha have hava seen sc n Deale Beale and he told me meth th that t I would never ne see sec my wile wife and children again n ln Campbell Campbel was WS so pos pos- Hive Dive In all that he said raid that Sa Savage al who was very much puzzled O over hi his er strange a assertions could not talk him out of ot the notion noton that he too to was as soon to die Campbell Campbel sat Bat down clown thalda that thal rn da day to write the official report of oC the thc death of ot Trestrail and like Ikc the former died before he hind had finished it With Wih the passing of or Campbell Campbel tho the company compan sent ent to the island two physicians clans cans In instead tad of ot or one 00 so that If IC one fell fel iii I the other could take his place Th These fo were vre rc Drs Drad haw and Hinds who on moving Into the house formerly oc occupied occupied oc- oc b by Beale Denie Trestrail and arul Campbell Campbell Camp Camp- bell bel were not troubled with wih anything supernatural for tor lev several rl months after aCer their arrival Sudden Suddenly one night while the they were wee sitting talking with wih Sa a Savage c on one o of the soldiers doln doing picket duty along that part of or the house In which Bealo hal had died ran to them fainting with wih fright hl hen When he ho camo came to his Ils a he stat stated r that a stranger tran er hal had approached him from the Iho woods wools near r the tho house that ho lie challenged challenged chal chal- tho the Intruder r four t time the tho hatter lat hat ter gave 6 back no answer When he ran rn It through with wih hl his bayonet the weapon passed through thin air and ant that the tho turning at UI the same sam time he ho rc- rc th the i livid Ihli features of ol Dr Peale who went vent Into tto bl his former bedchamber r An n examination of ul the tho room failed to verify ver ver- its its' the soldiers soldier's rl o statement and the two physicians were for tor locking him up for or drunkenness until SaI Savue o related f the tho circumstances of ol the Illness s and death of ot and Trestrail and nd how the thc for former ormer or- or mer had firmly maintained that he had hal seen fren Peale HeRJe nit all ni of which the they had never nc er hoard heard before and which caused them to treat trent th soldier far ar differently from tro ruin what thc they had nt at first Intended sentry lied died ried the da day following of or tho the effects of ot right fright rl h such being the diagnosis of ot both v and nl l Minds hinds Follow Following Inc this tho the two physicians began benn be- be pan gan nn to be annoyed b fay by strange noises nolES and curious phenomena CLI all ol during luring the night and Dr Dra Bradshaws Bradshaw's hawe little son on re refused rt- rt re- re fused to sleep In tho the room where he hail had har been assigned because the tho description of or orB B alo came to him In the and pulled his ears cars saying Wake wake The lad hail J 1 tiled died the next da day Finally Bradshaw w wAW saw AW Peale and In a few days ds died and anci limits Hinds becoming thoroughly frightened land resigned his hla place and returned to En Eng Eng- In place of these two cams cam Drs Macarthy Macar- Macar th thy and Fox Tox the thi former a relative of ol the h head t of ot the Irm firm and b both beth th acquaintances or of or Mr Reade The They remained on the Island until owing to tho the unhealthy climate climate cli cli- el- el mate the tho po post t wn was moved mo ed elsewhere and to a more moro salubrious locality For tho the short time tuno therefore that Dr Drs Macarthy anti and Fox remained on the Isla Island nIl and sleeping In the quarters Quarter where so fO man many had died lied they too were annoyed h by phenomena phenomena phenomena phe phe- which neither of or them theta was able ablo to fathom or explain try ns the they would woul Macarthy and nd Fox were friends and schoolmates of ot R and all ni three materialists ma ma- of ot the first water and aM nc In closing cosIng cos- cos cbs clos ing his hla account of the Island phenomena enters at nt length on a n discussion of or tho the unknown and amI unseen r realm hn stating his belief that all nn of or the tho occurrences above described were actual and Ind real related real related to him In good god faith b by Savage age Sa Fox and Macarthy men who were not In tho the least INUit superstitious This Is 19 probably the best authenticated ghost host storY story In tho the English language Meeting It I In fn a work on travel trel exploration lion tion ton and Investigation one cannot help experiencing surprise Yet Yot the whole affair af at- fair from the thc death ath of ot Beale Peale down to the tho abandonment of ot the tho 1 Island land Is stated In such cool and fact of mater terms nn treated so much In tho same manner In which In previous chapters ho hi describes cannibals monkeys and 11 hyenas that ono one on rends reads the tho story of ot tho the Incident through h before the tho anomaly of ot the subject dawns dawnson on him |