Rockaway’s Ghost. It is addicted to smashing plate glass. A family terrified by threatening demonstrations in a lawyer’s country villa. The neighbours of the opinion that it is not a genuine spook. Most people consider
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (1879)
Trying to trap the ghost. Six days and nights of terror in a Brooklyn tenement. Listening to the profane and vulgar voice coming from the scuttle. Mrs Scott’s vain attempt at moral suasion – A
Continue ReadingGröben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (1718)
In the parsonage of Groben, says Hennings in Geister und Geisterschern, p. 802, the inhabitants were much disturbed in 1718 by the throwing of stones upon the roofs of the house and the outbuildings. The
Continue ReadingThames, New Zealand (1872)
A Haunted House at the Thames. For some days past (says the Thames Evening Star) rumours have reached us that certain very strange occurrences, or manifestations (as the Spiritists call them), have been going on
Continue ReadingHrabusice, Slovakia (1666)
[Upper Hungary is now mainly Slovakia. This page suggests Kabsdorff is what is now Hrabusice.] Persecution of the Pastor of Kabsdorff. The evangelical clergyman, Gunther, of Kabsdorff, in Upper Hungary, in 1666, was greatly persecuted
Continue ReadingKörösladány, Hungary (1911)
[I suggest that ‘Koeroesbanya’ could be the place in the title, as otherwise it doesn’t seem to exist. Korosladany is in the south of Hungary] The Vienna correspondent of ‘The Morning Leader’ reports that Hungarian
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Mr Podmore (Journal S.P.R., June, 1899) refers briefly to the stone-throwing case at Paris, reported in the Gazette des Tribunaux (February 2, 1854). The affair on February 2 had lasted for three weeks. There was
Continue ReadingSnow Hill, London (1905)
Weird incidents in Cock-Lane. Spook who picks locks. Some curious and unexplained events at Saracen House, Snow Hill, have caused people to inquire whether the famous Cock-lane ghost is at work again. Saracen House is
Continue ReadingChico, California, USA (1922)
Rock showers from sky mystify California town. Periodic downpour centres on warehouse, which is bombarded as investigators gaze. Chico, Calif., March 10. Showers of rock that fall “from the clouds” on a warehouse here have
Continue ReadingJonesville, Virginia, USA (1938)
Jonesville. Va., Dec. 23- ‘Bouncing Bed’ and Girl Who Continue to Quiver and Quake Despite Change in Quarters Baffle University Professors. A change in quarters for 9-year-old Bertha Marie Sybert, failed to interrupt or shed
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