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Show A A A A A ; AAA SCIENTIST ill RADIO WAVES CAUSE GHOST SPOOK HOUSE ! LIES IN PATH ! i OF WIRELESS i That Is Why Mysterious' ' Fires Break Out in Home of Fanner SLAP IS EXPLAINED Author Thinks Mischievous Girl Braided Tails of Farm Animals BOSTON. Mass.. March 13. Ed-I Ed-I ward J. O'Brien, scientist and author. 1 declared today that the ghost of An-tigonlsh An-tigonlsh was in reality the product of j electrical energy. i After a month's investigation in the I Nova Scotia country where he was lecturing at St Francis Xnvler nnl I verslty when the ghost stories first ! came from Antlgonlsh. O'Brien said he found that strong wireless curr nn between the two great radio station at Wellfellet. Mass.. and Gial Bay, N 8, ran through the valley of Caledonia Mills, where stands the home of Alexander Alex-ander MacDonald. scene of the eerie events. not x m w BURN The MacDonald's" said O'Brien "will have to move their house out of ' ranee of these powerful radio currents 1 If the-, wish to avoid the ghostlike Incidents. If not the house may be burned down when the atmospheric conditions are Juat rlsrht. as they ap-! ap-! parently were when the fires were set ! around the barn." The braiding of the talis of the MacDonald cows, which has been con-i con-i sldered another of the manifestations : of the unseen Influence; was done by i Mary Ellen, the Antlgonlsh farmer's foster daughter because It was good fun In the opinion of O'Brien. Harold Wbldden. tne reporter, who had experiences of nis -own whsn he went to Investigate those of the Mac-Donald Mac-Donald family, continued o Brlen, was "completely carried away by his en-I en-I thuslasm and really believed that a I ghost slapped him." vt LPPKD o N PACE "Whldden slappee his own face when he suddenly waked In a tem-I tem-I peralure of 25 below zero and hie. numbed arm became suddenly suf-i suf-i fused with a good warm blood," j i' Brlen said 'Take a map. trace the line, apply your scientific knowledge of wireless : .,peratlon. study the curious effects of t electrical currents In fires on ships and on land and you haveihe solution I of the fires charged against the ghost pt ntlgonlsh." I'Hrl. n i IVt-d that Dr W alter Franklin Trlncc. New York, director of the American S?ocloty for Scientific Research, who has spent the last week Jn the "haunted house" would fall lo find anv other causes of the phenomena pheno-mena on |