# Philip Eckert — Can Such Things Be? character guide

> Philip Eckert in Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0062-at-old-man-eckert-s

## Who they are

An old man who experiences a strange and terrifying encounter.

## In the story

### [At Old Man Eckert’s](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/can_such_things_be_se/chapters/at-old-man-eckert-s)

The reclusive farmer who disappeared years earlier, setting the stage for the haunting and the subsequent investigation.

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