Article Text: “GHOST” IS ONLY BLACK CAT Society Formed to Investigate Visits Place and Pussy Gives Them Big Fright New York, A party of men of Asbury Park N.J. and Lakewood, N.J. who believe in spirits and ghosts, have formed a society among themselves for the purpose of proving that ghosts and spirits of those departed return to visit us mortals on earth.

The other night a few members of the society, consisting of John Hansford, John Ryno, Harold Woolly, William Hason, Amos Allen and Frank Cook, visited a suburb of Asbury Park, where there was a haunted and deserted house, reported to contain ghosts.

They arrived at the house about 9:30 o’clock and waited there for the hour of midnight About 11:45 o’clock, according to Ryno, there was an awful noise in the house, and Mason, who is a detective in Lakewood, rushed forward with drawn revolver and encountered a very large black cat. Mason mistook the cat for a ghost and demanded the cat to throw up Its hands, but instead it landed on Mason’s shoulder, and at the last report Mason was making for Lakewood at thirty miles an hour.

Source: The Prattville Progress, Prattville, Alabama, 29 Sept 1910 (pg. 2)