strange But True

By P‘. Ii. MacArthur

In a quiet valley in Hertford- sh,,.,_ Eng., there stands. in a beautiful grove of oaks and elms, the little Norman Church of Aven- b.,,. I the haunted church.

on a number [of occasions music has been heard issuing [firm the empty church. and per- mns living near there also speak of seeing the phantom of a beauti- ful lady moving about in the guuidows of _the church.

' ‘The first recorded date for this mange sweet music is Septem- Mr, 8, 1896. when the vicar‘s wife, Mrs. Wilson and three oth- 9. persons, all heard it at the san‘IP time. A similar record I\(.lI'S the date of September 5, lillfl, when a man employed in buying horses for the first World lA'£ii heard music as he passed a- long the road.

The Rev. E. H. Shepherd, who vicar of this church from

lids‘? to I931. scoffed at members ..1 his flock when they brought

M. the subject of heavenly music and of ghosts.

Rut one day as the minister Wail-ll"t‘I in the vicarage garden he heard music coming from the di- l‘t"('il0f'I of the church and natur- ally concluded tha Mrs. Smith. the woman who clean d the church, has allowing her daughter to amuse herself at the organ while she performed her regular duties.

luiniediately the vicar investi- gated. He was amazed to find the church door locked and nobody could be seen through the window.

He pondered over the strange affair for some time blfore he '.\l'tIl[‘f "I have advanced many theories but not one of them will hold water. I just can't explain the music nohow."

Then Mrs. Smith who cleaned the building said that one eve- rung she saw a funeral attended lw a number of persons. The lhllrch wardens backed up Mu. :;mith‘s statement. claiming they'd seen a similar vision but recog- nized the congregation as a com- pany of monks.

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A happier event concerning the haunted» church is told by a wo. man who lived in the vicinity in these words: “My husband and l were coming home from a visit. The time was 11 p.m. It wigs .\llH\\‘Ing hard which made walk- in: rather difficult,

‘As we drew near the old rhurch I remembered the porch leading to the main entrance and asked my husband if we should go in‘and wait and see if the storm would let up. It was Christmas night. No sooner had uc stepped across the threshold of the porch than we heard many voices in conversation. The church seemed full of happy human sounds. though we could not make out a word they said. We tried the door but it was locked. The place was in darkness. but the sounds came distinctly from the inside of the church."

The bells nf the church were said to toll of their own accord uhrn n \'lL‘ar died or when trag- "LV affected the parish. Be that 3-‘ it may. the records show that strange things happened at the church of Avenbury.

0'19 day the vicar had a seizure ulile in'the church and had to be taken to his place of residence rm a stretcher. Ten days later he died. and strange as it may seem, the bells started tolling about nine

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No other vicar came to Aven- bury. The parish was later divid- ed between three neighboring ones; the church was dismantled and the bells sold to a London church with the odd name of St. Andrew's-by-the-Wardrobe.

A few years back one of the old sexton's sons passed through the picturesque valley. He found the haunted church had become a scene of squalor and desecra- tion. Vandals had smashed the windows. The exterior was a 50")’ Sllhl Instead of the for- mer exhortation; "Whoseevu thou art who cnterest this church, leave it not without one prayer to. God for thyselt for those who minister and those who worship here." there was now posted this warning: "Anyone entering this building does so at his own risk." You have just been readng the story of the haunted church of Avenbury. in Hertfordshlre Eng- land. which was built in medieval times. During tne London blitz the church was destroyed, and if you passed the secluded valley to- day you would not find one stone to indicate that a church had ever stood on the spot. Gone. too. are the bells whose tolling told of departing bodies on their last journey to the grave. Yet there are persons living in Avenbury today who are so deeply impres- sed with what they saw and heard that the memory of the haunted church has never grown dim.

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WINNIPEG, (CP)—DI'. K. L. Ker- win of _f.iaval University, Quebec. was elected president of the Cana- dian Association of Physicists ‘for 1051-55 a tthe annual meeting here. Dr. B. W. Sargent of Queen's University. Kingston .was named vice-president.

The association is meeting in conjunction with the Conference of Learned Societies.

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HALIFAX, (CPl— The first of 5.000 Halifax school children to receive new anti-polio injections were treated yesterday.

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About 600,000 children In the United States and Canada are re- ceiving the injections.

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HALIFAX; (CF) — Halifax city council Tuesday night approved capital spending of $1,458,500 for 1954. including a $100,000 grant for purchase of a new airport site.

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