Newspaper Clipping of the Day

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Here’s a topic I don’t think has been covered much on this blog:  Mystery Mist!  The “Louisville Courier Journal,” October 22, 1907:

Glasgow, Ky., Oct. 21--Several hundred parties arriving here today from Glasgow Junction, ten miles from here, report a strange phenomenon at that place which is mystifying the people of that unusually quiet little town and is simply inexplainable.

On the exact spot where Van Smith killed his half-brother, Bill Bartley, last May, a fine mist, amounting to almost rain, has been falling for the past four weeks; at least it has been noticed that long, but may have been falling longer.  The fact has startled the residents of that section and surrounding country, and as the report spreads interest increases.  The place on which the mist is falling is some twenty feet across and includes the exact spot on which Bartley fell when shot by his half-brother.

Among those who were at the place yesterday were J.A. Conyers, Senator J.C. Gillenwaters and Oscar Seay, who while waiting for a train heard of the strange mist and went to view the spot.  Mr. Conyers, who is well known as a recent appointee in United States Marshal George Long’s office at Louisville, and a prominent politician, was seen and when asked about the matter said that he visited the place and found something like a hundred persons gathered there, discussing the puzzling phenomenon.  He walked slowly across the place where the mist was falling and said in that time his hat was wet and the rain showed perceptibly on his clothes.  When asked how the people explained the presence of the mist, he replied that they did not explain it at all, as they knew of no explanation.  Senator Gillenwaters and Oscar Seay, a well-known Louisville travelling man, tell substantially the same story.

I wasn’t able to learn anything more about the phenomenon.