“When watching I always experienced a peculiar sensation a few minutes before hearing any noise.  I can only describe it as like suddenly entering an ice-house, and a feeling that some one was present and about to speak to me.  On three different nights I was awakened by my bedclothes being pulled off my feet.  But the worst night I had at B——­ was one night about the second week in September, and I shall never forget it as long as I live.  I had been keeping watch with two gentlemen—­one a visitor, the other one of the house.  We were sitting in room No. 2, and heard the noises that I have described about half-past two.  Both gentlemen were very much alarmed; but we searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of the ghost or cause of the noises, although they came this time from an unoccupied room. (I may mention that the noises were never heard in the daytime, as stated by ‘A Correspondent,’ but always between twelve, midnight, and four in the morning, generally between two and four o’clock.) After a thorough search the two gentlemen went to bed sadder, but not wiser men, for we had discovered nothing.  I then went to my room, but not to bed, for I was not satisfied, and decided to continue the watch alone.  So I seated myself on the service stairs, close to where the water-pipes passed up the wall, so as to decide once and for all if the sounds came in any way from the water-pipes.

“I had not long to wait (about twenty minutes) when the knocking recommenced from the same direction as before, but much louder than before, followed, after a very short interval, by two distinct groans, which certainly made me feel very uncomfortable, for it sounded like some one being stabbed and then falling to the floor.  That was enough for me.  I went and asked the two gentlemen who had just gone to bed if they had heard anything.  One said he had heard five knocks and two groans, the same as I had; while the other (whose room was much nearer to where the sounds came from) said he had heard nothing.  I then retired to my bed, but not to sleep, for I had not been in bed three minutes before I experienced the sensation as before, but instead of being followed by knocking, my bedclothes were lifted up and let fall again—­first at the foot of my bed, but gradually coming towards my head.  I held the clothes around my neck with my hands, but they were gently lifted in spite of my efforts to hold them.  I then reached around me with my hand, but could feel nothing.  This was immediately followed by my being fanned as though some bird was flying around my head, and I could distinctly hear and feel something breathing on me.  I then tried to reach some matches that were on a chair by my bedside, but my hand was held back as if by some invisible power.  Then the thing seemed to retire to the foot of my bed.  Then I suddenly found the foot of my bed lifted up and carried around towards the window for about three or four feet, then replaced to its former position.  All this did not take, I should think, more than two or three minutes, although at the time it seemed hours to me.  Just then the clock struck four, and, being tired out with my long night’s watching, I fell asleep.  This, Mr. Editor, is some of my experiences while at B——.