G H O S T S From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!

A Figure in White Appears in Groshon's Brick Yard and Attends To Kilns--
Forty Shots Discharged at it Without Effect.

1884 A HAUNTED WOMAN
She Believes She Sees The Ghost of Her Sweetheart

1884 FLUSHING HAS A GHOST
Attention Drawn to a Mysterious Figure in White-- It Comes From the Quaker Meeting House and Fills the Beholders with Terror.

1884 THE GHOST OF A LIVING PERSON
A Specter Which Alarms The Residents of New Utrecht

1885 A FIERY TONGUE
The old Centreville Racetrack and Hotel Supposed th be the Phantom of a Murderer-- A Disturbed Spirit which Spits Fire Like a Foundry and Leaves a Wake of Sulphur Behind it.

A STORY OF A HAUNTED HOUSE IN AMITY STREET

1886 MANY GHOSTS
Some Curious Supernatural Visitors of the Past

1889 THE SCREAMS OF A MURDERER'S GHOST HEARD IN PORT JEFFERSON

1890 ALL IN WHITE
A Pretty Young Ghost Haunting in South Brooklyn

A GHOST IS HAUNTING THE OLD OCEANIC HOTEL
Brighton Beach, Gravesend

1893 WHO IS PLAYING GHOST AND SCARING FRANK PEARSALL
He Says a Six Foot Vision Confronted Him as He Wended His Way Homeward Sunday Night- Warning Him to "Go and See That Girl No More"- But He Will Go

1894 BROOKLYN GHOST ? PSHAW
Three Hundred of the Hunt a Hysterical Female Spook-

1894 THE MAPLETON GHOST

AN UNRECOGNIZED SUICIDE

The Woman Who Shot Herself at New Utrecht Yesterday.
SENT A BULLET STRAIGHT THROUGH HER HEART

There Was an Agitated Caller at the Morgue This Morning--
It was Evidently a Thoroughly Premeditated Case of Self Destruction.
Are the Remains Those of a Young Man's Sister Who Ran Away Last April?
The Tragedy Is Enveloped in Mystery.

RECONIZED AT THE MORGUE

The Woman Who Shot Herself on Sunday Last
MAGGIE BARNING,  A ROPE WALK WORKER

An Anomymous Letter Led to Her Identification This Morning--
It was evidently Written by a Man--
The Suicide Lived Somewhere in Hanson Place--

FUNERAL OF MARGARET BARNING

The Mapleton Suicide Buried This Afternoon.

MAPLETON SLIGHTS ITS GHOST

Its People Seem to Be Heartlessly Cold and Indifferent

THE GHOST BOBS UP AGAIN

This Time the Mapleton Apparition Scares Some Laborers
Its Fame Is Spreading and the Villagers Are Beginning to Take an Interest in the Specter--

1895 The Police Looking for an ITALIAN RAG PICKERS GHOST
THAT APPEARS IN BROWNSVILLE It Frightens Returning Picnickers Caused Sleeplessness and Excitement in That Neighborhood-

1895 THE GHOST OF MELROSE HALL
A Flatbush Legend Substantiated by Ancient Chronicles TRAGIC FATE OF THE FAIR ALVA Immured in a Secret Chamber She Died of Starvation Many Years Her Restless Spirit Haunted the Old Mansion. It Still Stands on Bedford Avenue, Between Clarkson and Winthrop Streets.

1896 ANOTHER GHOST SAID TO BE WALKING IN FLATBUSH
Looking For His Lost Hand

1899 SMITHVILLE'S GHOST HUNT
A Night Walking Spectre that Frightens Villiagers and Defies Capture

1901 GHOST AT THE NAVY YARD
STARTES THE MARINES WHOLE GUARD ON THE HUNT A Mysterious Figure With Its Head Bandaged Up Is Pursued and Disappears.

GHOST NOT YET FOUND

1902 FLUSHING HAS A GHOST THAT FRIGHTENS COPPERS
The Police Headquarters in That Section Said to be Haunted
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