manifestations, the idea was abandoned.

One morning the door of the large stove in the kitchen adjoining the
saloon was opened and shut by the ghost, much to the annoyance of Mr.
White, who with an old axe handle so braced the door that it could not
be moved by any known mundane power, unless the axe handle was first
removed. A moment afterwards, however, the ghost, who seemed never to
leave Esther's presence while she was in the saloon, lifted the door off
its hinges, removed the axe handle from the position in which it had
been placed, and, after throwing them some distance into the air, let
both fall to the floor with a tremendous crash. Mr. White was speechless
with astonishment, and immediately called in Mr. W.H. Rogers, Inspector
of Fisheries for Nova Scotia. After bracing the door as before, the same
wonderful manifestation was repeated, in the presence of Mr. Rogers. On
another occasion, a clasp-knife belonging to little Fred, Mr. White's
son, was taken from his hand by the ghost, who instantly stabbed Esther
in the back with it, leaving the knife sticking in the wound, which bled
profusely. Fred, after drawing the knife from the wound, wiped it,
closed it and put it in his pocket. The ghost took it from his pocket,
and in a second stuck it in the same wound. Fred again obtained
possession of the knife, and this time hid it so that it could not be
found, even by a ghost.

There is something still more remarkable, however, about the following
manifestation: Some person tried the experiment of placing three or four
large iron spikes on Esther's lap while she was seated in the Dining
Saloon. To the astonishment of everybody, the spikes were not removed by
the ghost, but instead, became too hot to be handled with comfort, and a
second afterwards were thrown by the ghost to the far end of the saloon,
a distance of twenty feet.