Show SCARE I r I H BURN BURNt 4 OLD W HOME t Johnson Place U is of t ear ar S Stratford rd Conn Tell o of f Experiences Ia fa ill T Conn for thirty t 1 have a U t clanked their who ho eta of ct cannon bans balls nd threw And I John John- old Samuel muel fine h thO Stratford hl have ve caused t a at t that the they will to structure and Colonial down the building lots n the estate up inte Into nto ot of Dr Samuel a president nt of Kings King's h first Columbia university one oneZ Z le It A no ox Samuel Samue-l Johnson t bC m Is mado made arran arrange arrange- e- e k have haye sins a firm to raze t tk the local with a 1 estate tnt tJ and a a. real nal t k a el elof of old d mansion on tho I w place lace the property ket for for these stories ot of not been It felt d others have hr and heirs an ana the have made a 0 ant at would yI t lb a house weal weal- place for a nt country countr nee tales t generation But for a told ha have 0 been ot of Stratford and vl- vl all Mrs Mr Susan E E. John John- Since tr tf of the tho the last member Hadon n died whon occupied the place 4 w who thero there have been sov- sov ago Jean but none of ot them reI rea re- re When hen than a few tew weeks I snore they repeated the ghost e rr k Hudson Not Afraid Hudson Hudon always alwa's said she Rho he heth I t th the ame clanking chains the theMa I Ma of ot crinoline skirts Ikirt the the- rolling balls baH and the opening and andt t of doors but she he said she felt with those sounds Bound lr at t home made b by t. t t believed they were r s. s tenants la however did not look tIt m ruck h fri friendliness upon the tho sleep I lag incidents The Tho house built I L by Dr Johnson and rebuilt In filled It'd with curios and relics Co days ps one floor was WAll a pile of ot cannon wed used in the tho revolutionary war when ben these then balls started to run runa a the stairs new tenants did not lit it It was wu difficult also to keep mil nl In In the gr great at house In the tho n th there re was vou a 0 trap door and cook who vho ho tried to mako make apple ran from the room vine that a ghost had pushed that thit trapdoor trap door and was coming to t tho pie the tb olden days there was much In the tho mansion and women Romen were cre to be ho found i in n plenty Later tenants said were awakened at night by many manyi ii i the strains of ot music for tor coUl- coUl reels and minuets and the wishing swishing of ot silken and crino- crino as the thc ghosts of ot happy ing women ran up and down ere re was vou also abo a gloomy old ghost host ding InS InS' to these stories who on ony ony Jjr y nights ranted through the 4 i drawing dragging his hie chains after r him burling cannon balls down tho the thoI I He lie also liked to open bedroom i r and slam them Then he ho would At t e gleefully as the startled sleep sleep- Once Lived There v Arthur Powell poet now Jn Bridgeport lived for tor many years ears earsa a boy across the road from tho the thoon Lion uon on place and ono one summer thirty naso ago alO Mrs Mra Hudson asked him and mother to remain in the house fie JIe she went to Europe Already at that time there were des r w of ot ghosts Mr r. r Powell said kill y b but t. t we didn't believe them wever er Bever soon eoon after we moved In the and the maids left lett saying the its ts wouldn't let them sleep j I ember particularly the ghost of ot a pretty woman who wore slippers clippers French nh heels heels hecl She would havo have email enal right only once in a while hIlt bile coming down stairs her French cla would auld catch 1 in a n step and sho eho d tan tall the rest of ot the Wa way with a s scream cream Then all the other t would gather cather about her and andi i ere ee would QuId be an aji aw awful ful hubbub But recovered She would fall tall wn It maybe maybo the pin very next ht I never saw her but I know wu pretty prett because ice she had a nice ww WM ce and wore ore stilt dUe skirts lr Ir and French hat trap door In the kitchen was waa One day m my mother was wasand fer ant johnnie cake and it U certainly e le-d le good Suddenly that trap ti raised and she said she Bho was cor- cor ce she saw the dark Ka garments perman per- per pa a do cloak or of a man c coming up of Ot ne she ahe didn't walt wait to tho the see lee rest him And when he went back the ate cake cako Was gone LIke Us ns In most old houses this one had various rooms connected with rt the running to the thc butlers butler's pantry wires wire were CM cut fore for many manX years cars However those bolls contin- contin oats otta night after nl night ht These Theo Waked me with tho the bells and |