Family flees a musical ghost. A family has fled their home in terror – because they say a ghost keeps playing “No Place Like home,” on their door chimes. Last night a vicar was giving
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Carisbrook, Jamaica (1917)
In 1917, at Carisbrook, in Jamaica, a young woman named Agnes Brooke was the victim. Large stones fell on her from the kitchen ceiling, just as oil fell at the rectory, and sudden fires borke
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… Again, at Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, in 1916, the victim was another girl. Her food is reported to have caught fire when she attempted to eat it, and the blankets on her bed
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In these days of modern incredulity accounts of haunted houses are usuallly treated with laughter and contempt, but the inhabitants living in the district round the Castle of Coudraie in France are still inclined to
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True Intelligence Extraordinary. The inhabitants of the town of Greenwich have for some time past been alarmed with the account of a Ghost, or rather a supernatural noise, which makes great disturbance in the house
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Mystery rappings in flat still unsolved. A Newcastle police officer who has sat in a downstairs flat in Clydesddale Road, Byker, specially to listen to rappings and knockings from its walls, is as mystified what
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A Girl of Strange Powers. Her mere presence causes a regular rumpus among furniture. There have been several remarkable stories of girls in America being the mysterious means of commotion around them, and now we
Continue ReadingBleddfa, Powys (1666)
… The transporting of things out of one room into another, and striking and the like by invisible agents, minds one of Mr Lloyd’s story, as ’tis called in Mr Glanvill’s papers, whom in a
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Witchcraft at Framsden. The greatest excitement has been caused in the usually quiet village of Framsden by a report that has got about among the labouring classes that a young girl of about 15, living
Continue ReadingSeremban, Malaysia (1951)
Stones thrown nightly at Seremban house. Poltergeist at it again. Standard Malay Correspondent. Seremban, Tues. – It appears the poltergeist which was busy throwing stones at a house in Malacca has made Seremban its new
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