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OCR: EERIE GHOST FOUND TO BE SIMPLY AIRY

Graveyard Mystery Is Only Freak of Radio

Buffalo, N. Y.-Sounds of music and the quavering voice of a woman is suing from a mausoleum in Pine Hill cemetery at last has been exposed as those of -but it’s a bit too early 41 the story to tell everything.

It all started a few weeks ago when a couple parked in a car near the cemetery heard a voice of eerie [sweetness] singing in the darkness.

The couple tarried no longer. The word went around that the ghost of a woman sang nightly in the [cemetery].

Crowds collected along the roadside to listen to the voice that issued from the grave. Some, a trifle bolder than the rest, entered the graveyard to search for the source of the voice.

Coming upon the mausoleum, the bold ones heard a woman’s voice and the notes of a pipe organ. Fear stricken, they rushed back to tell the faint-hearted ones outside the fences of their discovery.

The crowds grew larger each night. Where no policemen were needed [before] to handle traffic on the roads near the cemetery, five were called upon to direct the great number of ears that drove by.

And then things reached a climax a small group of investigators, including a reporter, decided to get at the bottom of things–ghost or no ghost they went, leaving a gaping crowd at the front gate.

“Hear that,” one said, as they approached the mausoleum. Sure enough a woman’s voice came quavering: from the tomb.

And then out of the darkness strolled a police officer.

“That’s no ghost,” he said. “Listen more closely and you’ll find that’s an outdoor speaker on a radio shop over there on Harlem road.: The mausoleum catches the sound waves and when you stand close by you can hear the music and talking.”

Thus the voice that was thought by many to be supernatural was later revealed as that of WGR, one of Buffalo’s largest broadcasting stations.

Source: The Topeka Journal (Topeka, Indiana), Jun 6, 1929.