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Show 'GHOST' SLAPS MEN ON WRIST NEW YORK Fob .24 Poll and press havInK failed to soIvp the mystery mys-tery of the haunted house of Antlfion-ish. Antlfion-ish. Nova Scotia, whose now famous : Khost has aroused the entire Canadian province, science has been asked to BOlve tho mystery. The Halifax Herald, which recently sent a reporter to Antlonlxh valley only to have a report that he was lapped on the wrist by unseen hut quite substantial bands. Thursday wired wir-ed lr Walter Franklin Pierce, director direc-tor of the American Institute for Scl- I entlfle Research, requesting that body to undertake an Investigation. Dr Pierce is reserving decision. The "haunted house" Is the old homestead of Alexander toaoDorlald, 100 miles, as the crow flies from Hal- , ifax. In tho dead of winter Mr. Mac-Donald, Mac-Donald, his wife and their daughter; fled the house terrorized by unseen ! thlntrs" that had chased his horses to lather, the farmer said, braided the tallfl of his cattle and started mysterious myster-ious fires of ordinarily not highly combustible com-bustible materials in his home. So seriously was tho tale taken by the countryside that tho Halifax Herald Her-ald and the provincial police sent j representatives to stay three nights land days In the "haunted house. ' 1 hi 3 Ireutrned a week ago with shaken nerves, endorsing the farmer s story and adding to it, saying they had been 'awakened In the night by slaps from , unseen hands. Thus baffled, the Canadians have called upon American science to rout the Antlgonish ghost. |