Four years after the story of the ‘Trotting Cob’ was recounted in The Independent, the paper once again reported a ghost story only this time the story was fresh, the incident also happened in town.
In January 1937, a white apparition was last seen floating into the Waring Gardens after being spotted standing in the street around the vicinity of the ‘Economic Store’.
The two eyewitnesses who saw this apparition called other locals for help and a search of the gardens provided no clue to what was seen.
It was reported that the two eyewitnesses were sober and so it was not the use of their imagination of the drunken state kind.
Unfortunately, the article does not tell us more about what was seen in terms of what the ghost looked like, a week later The Independent reported that further inquiries revealed no new clues, but many residents believed it was a joke.
Amusingly on the day of the follow up report, there was an ad by Lyceum Pictures advertising the movie ‘The Ghost Goes West‘.
For those into the paranormal, it must be remembered that Old Jack, the people hanged in the now long gone jail grounds, the half dozen or so deaths that occurred in nearby hotels and others that died in nearby locations and the ghost could have been any of them or it was simply just a 2:30am joke.
For those who like their ghost stories, the economic store mentioned in the January 1937 report may be referring to the store Rose’s that was situated next to the Primrose Café.
A woman was fatally stabbed outside the Globe decades earlier and another woman died in the Globe in 1935, could it be either one of those ladies?
Deni History 