A strange story about a child in a basket that disappeared from the tree before the crowd

In the Middle Ages, the villagers in Western Europe widely believed in the existence of changers – creatures left in beds for children by fairies who stole a human child. These variants resembled children, but they seemed diseased, with unusual and often disturbing behavior.

According to legend, to regain their real child, parents had to either overcome the variable until the fairies intervene or leave him in the forest, where he was hungry and thirst. Apparently, fairies, unable to bear the suffering of Changeling, would take him back and return the human child.

Historians largely perceive these beliefs as superstitions that arose when people encountered children with innate deformations. Many were easier to imagine that their vigorous child was taken by fairies, allowing them to justify the damage or abandon the child, which they considered “not human.”

Interesting report appeared In Lancaster Examiner (Pennsylvania, USA) On August 25, 1875, describing an unusual incident observed by a immense group of people.

Reading Eagle from Wednesday contains the following strange and peculiar details of a strange romance, to which, he says, Jacob S. Peters from Millersville, was an eyewitness, reports, reports Singularity.

Over the past eight or ten days, the child's cries have been heard in the evening after the night, near the road leading from Morgantown to Waynesburg. Since then, the event crossing the mountain saw a child near a immense tree in the basket.

They heard him cry, and then the basket in which the alleged child was disappeared. There is a great secret related to romance. Many people visited this place.

The correspondent of the Eagle from Morgantown sends the following strange relationships from romance, which sounds like a strange story of Legerdemain or like an affair romance or witches.

The letter is as follows: last evening I read in the eagle a report from a single noise in the bells, near Pottstown, but we have something at the top of the Welsh mountain, half Morgantown and Waynesburg and about a quarter of a mile from the main road connecting the above places.

Over the past two weeks, the child's screams have been heard by people passing through the road, and at the beginning nothing was thought of it, but on Sunday evening, when Robert Gorman, living north of Downingtown, in the company of another gentleman and two women passed, the call became recognized, and they thought that someone was treating a child of shame.

Mr. Gorman offered his friend to enter the forest and determine the case, ladies remain in the carriage. As he thought that Mr. G. thought that at a compact distance to the house, where there was a child, the ladies said that the gentlemen, and the horses were secured on a tree, and the party began, crying is still growing.

After a walk a compact distance, one of the women, Miss Ellie Parker, who lives near Paoli, fell suddenly and told the party to look up at the top of a immense tree just in front of them, and saw a child sitting in a tiny basket, swaying forward and back, but weakly crying.

The ladies scared at the sight and begged one of the gentlemen to try to get up on the tree and bring the child. The distance to the first limb was about twenty feet, and the gentlemen could not get up.

During the conversation about how the child could be lowered, the child shouted and as if magic, the basket fell by half the distance to the ground, causing women's screams, and the whole event was more or less scared.

In a shorter time than you have to write, the basket and its contents returned to their place, and the child cries all the time. This movement hit the party.

They watched the bin moves and saw the child clearly for five minutes later, and everything immediately disappeared. The party states that the whole thing is one of the greatest secrets they have ever met.

Mr. Gorman says it was a child's game, but she was still a reality. Ladies say that the child was alive because they saw him move when it fell towards them. On Monday evening, the event of about twenty repaired this place and everyone saw the same. This is a great secret, because too many reliable people have seen that this is a mystification.

Mr. Js Peters, living south of Lancaster City, was one of the events, on Monday evening, and says that he saw a child in a basket, saw him move and saw a fall and disappearance. As long as it lasts, I can't say.

Many of Churchtown are approaching Thursday evening to witness mystery. If an affair can be explained, I will write to you again.

Later, however, a note rejecting this incident appeared in the newspapers as a “joke” developed by the “Young Lady of the Neighborhood”, which allegedly had a talent for abdominality and can imitate the child's crying. However, how she created the illusion of a disappearing child in the basket was never explained.

For a up-to-date reader, this amazing event can resemble a “script error” in a video game in which the same action repeats in the same place at regular intervals. But because there are no more details about this story, it remains a historical mystery of what people actually saw.