A Perth Mystery. Alleged Spirit-Rapping Investigation by the Police For some time back a rather mysterious affair has been troubling the minds of the inhabitants of Market Street, Perth, and is exciting considerable interest, not
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Baldarroch, Aberdeenshire (1838)
The latest instance of the popular panic occasioned by a house supposed to be haunted, occurred in Scotland, in the winter of the year 1838. On the 5th of December, the inmates of the farm-house
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The Puzzling of Baltimore’s Police. From the “Baltimore American.” There is reported to be a mysterious visitor hanging about the corner of Frederick and Fayette Streets, who for the past week has been throwing stones
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Have those nuns moved into a flat? Ghostly noises, mystery lights alarm couple. Have the ghosts of Coventry Hall nipped smartly through the Streatham High Road traffic to find new haunting grounds? For there have
Continue ReadingOrleans, France (1530)
L’esprit Des Cordeliers D’Orleans, 1534. Memoire inedit de Calvin. (D’apres la minute originale de la main de Charles de Jonvillers, son secretaire). La tres instructive et amusante notice que nous avons publiee ‘sur l’histoire du
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Holbeach, Lincolnshire (1927)
Aged Couple’s Night Horror. Is it a Ghost, or a Heartless Hoax? Wild bellringing from bedroom window. Stones moved, doors slashed and blazing paraffin. An up-to-date ghost equipped with knife, safety razor, paraffin rags, and
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Tbilisi, Georgia (1880)
There is a certain house here, at Tiflis, near the Mooshtaid [Mushthaid/ Mushtaidi] garden, long since deserted on account of its reputation of being haunted. This winter, a strong rumour was suddenly spread about the
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An Uxbridge “Ghost” and its antics. The alleged presence of a “ghost” in a house and its vicinity in the Cowley-road has aroused a good deal of interest and controversy in the town during the
Continue ReadingBishopwearmouth, Sunderland (1839)
A Yorkshire Poltergeist. As a pendant to my notes of Saturday on the Keighley Spiritualists, a correspondent sends the following account of a Yorkshire “poltergeist,” whose doings surpassed even those of the famous Cock Lane
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Ghost terrifies young family. Two local clergymen, who fought a race against time to rid a ghost from a block of new flats in Burwell, have at last succeeded in their mysterious tasks. For more
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