What was it? Nobody knows but something or somebody haunted the house. The borders at Mrs Dimity’s boarding house didn’t believe in ghosts either but they were curious about them which is why they voted to move in to the old brown stone house on 49th Street and once they were in they were still convinced that ghosts don’t venture abroad in a New York tenement building. The only one that wasn’t quite convinced that ghosts exist only in storybooks was old Mrs Dimity herself…

Author: Fitzjames O'Brien.