Ghosts: Thanks to Phosphorescent Paint, We Can Now Glow in the Dark

A vintage newspaper clipping titled 'THRASHING A GHOST' features a black-and-white illustration of several men in early 20th-century attire confronting a ghost made of a sheet with eye holes. The text recounts how residents of Connington, near Perth, captured the ghost, who surrendered after being 'bailed up' with a revolver, and then beat him with a paling before releasing him. The humor lies in the absurdity of treating a harmless prank as a genuine supernatural threat.

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