Haunted House Story. Dancing chairs and flying pots. From our own correspondent. Foggia, Tuesday. At Castelnuovo d’Annia, near Foggia, have been happening strange events, which have arroused much curiosity, and which the inhabitants attribute to
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Bruck an der Mur, Austria (1949)
Poltergeist at work in Austrian town. Things are really jumping in the little Austrian town of Brucks, according to Vienna Press reports. The townspeople blame it all on 10-year-old Caroline Chalupka and her out-of-this-world powers.
Continue ReadingBlackburn, Lancashire (1887)
Singular Occurrence. A few nights ago, a man, his wife, and son, living in the neighbourhood of Lammack, Blackburn, were awakened from their slumbers about midnight by a tremendous noise downstairs, as if the table
Continue ReadingBoston, Massachusetts, USA (1847)
An American Ghost. About five weeks since, a family residing at the west end of Boston were very much annoyed by strange and disagreeable noises, which occurred at different hours of the night, but especially
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1922)
Meanwood tenant braves a “ghost.” Not fearful in these days of house scarcity. It has been gravely whispered that one of the new Corporation houses in Bentley Lane, Meanwood, is haunted, and the more timid
Continue ReadingSenghenydd, Caerphilly (1908)
Heard strange knockings. Some admissions of an extraordinary nature were made at the Pontypridd Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday by Charles Hardy, assistant timberman, Tyny-graig-road, Llanbradach. His liabilities included £43 due to eight grocers, and
Continue ReadingExeter, Devon (1674)
– About August, 1674, Mr Basil Wood Junior, Son of Basil aforesaid, living at Exeter, in Devonshire, heard the same kind of Knocking at which, being disturbed, he wrote word of it to his Father
Continue ReadingChatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada (1894)
On Jessep McDowell’s farm, concession 15, Raleigh, there have been supernatural happenings of late which have created a great scare among the farmers of the neighbourhood. A reporter yesterday drove out to investigate, and found
Continue ReadingTrillick, County Tyrone (1880)
The Trillick Ghost. On Sunday evening, as Mr Richie Wilson’s house-keeper was proceeding to the byre to milk, a stone was hurled at her heels. Being alarmed, she returned to the house, and, after relating
Continue ReadingMarkinch, Fife (1927)
The Ghost of Markinch Gasworks. From a Markinch reader. For some time past a strange thing has been going on at the gas works in the village of Markinch. There are two stokers employed at
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