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Tonight's Cold Open is taken nearly verbatim from an article published on November 19, 1829,

in the Detroit Gazette titled, A Weird and Malicious Ghost.

A few days ago, the good people of a Scottish settlement on a little tributary of the River St. Clair called the Chanel-Eccart

were thrown into great consternation by the pranks of some invisible and mischievous visitor,

whose gambols were repeated during several nights and at the habitations of several farmers.

One house in particular appeared to be the single object of the vengeance of the ghost, who set it on fire in several places,

notwithstanding the strictest watch was kept, and all the exorcisms

which a people who cannot be supposed unlearned in such lore could think of, were constantly

repeated. Yet, so fast as the fire could be extinguished in one place, it broke out at another.

At length the house was abandoned by the inmates, and in the morning following was burnt to the ground.

In the neighboring house, to which the people had retired, they were again persecuted by the industrious demon,

and were assailed with noises more dreadfully superhuman and discordant than the catterwalling of a dozen couples of cats in a dark garret.

Having retired into a room with the

doors and windows closed, the noises continued, the candles burnt blue. There were strange

appearances in the embers, and everyone distinctly perceived a slight smell of burning grimstone.

What is still more extraordinary, the persons in the room were assailed with balls and slugs of lead,

which struck them from every direction, though no noise like the report of firearms was heard.

The devil, however, had some conscience left, for though he had committed arson,

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