Case file · Haunting
The Wizard Clip, Middleway
In the 1790s Adam Livingston's farm at Middleway was said to suffer poltergeist attacks: unseen shears clipped crescents into clothes and linen, giving the village the nickname 'Wizard Clip'.
1794 CE · 39.29, -77.99 · status: legend
The account
In the story, the troubles began after Livingston refused to fetch a Catholic priest for a dying stranger. Livingston, a Lutheran, became a Catholic after a priest (often named as Fr. Dennis Cahill) blessed the house. A Catholic editor later called it 'the truest ghost story ever told'.
The sceptical view
The accounts were written down decades later by Catholic writers, and no contemporary record of the events is known.