Despite the declaration of Police Desk Sergeant Charles Fleck that he buried a box in the cellar of the house at 650 Verbeke street in 1881 and used it as a refrigerator, B.F. Corby, who now occupies the house, says that doesn’t explain how bones resembling those of human beings came to be in the box, nor does it explain the headless specter frequently seen in the house. Corby is laughed at by the police, and the police are derided by Corby.
“For weeks the house has been haunted,†says Corby. There has been the plaintive whine of an infant, for one thing; a headless man appeared to Corby and Mrs. R.H. Peters, a neighbor; a strange blue light shone in the cellar, and a stove, every night, at the same time, cracked loudly three times. When Corby found the box in the cellar he says the rappings grew so continuous and loud that not a roomer in the boarding house slept a wink.
In the mysterious box which Corby found in the cellar, in which the blue light always appeared, were several bushels of slacked lime and large bones which fell into dust when exposed to the air.
The police have accepted Sergeant Fleck’s explanation of the box, but Corby says they have not explained the child’s cry, the rappings or the headless man who comes and goes.
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