The Blantyre Ghost of December 1900

The poem is humorous and it is not clear whether it was based on a real scare, a hoax, or pure invention by the poet. The named people may have been real Blantyre residents, which is why the Blantyre Project prints it as local history. It is included as evidence of a ghost story circulating or being joked about in the village in 1900 and not as a witnessed event.