The Neudorf Case of 1952. This case occurred in the house of the mayor of Neudorf in Baden. We entered the case at the request of the Department of Public Health. I reported on this
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Neusatz, Germany (1951)
Three years after the Vachendorf Case, the Freiburg Institute was asked by a Catholic priest from the village of Neusatz in Baden to investigate a poltergeist case. An old mother lived with her 30-year-old, weak-minded
Continue ReadingVachendorf, Germany (1948)
The Vachendorf Case of 1948. In Vachendorf, a small mountain village in Bavaria, an old German couple, refugees from Bohemia, were poorly lodged with their 14-year-old daughter [sic] in one room of an old mansion
Continue ReadingPursruck, Germany (1970)
The Pursruck Case 1970-71. The changed attitude towards poltergeist phenomena became symptomatically manifest in the behaviour of the catholic priest, Rev. Jakob Wolfsteiner, who is in charge of the pastoral duties in the small village
Continue ReadingWoodston, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (1908)
A Ghost Story. (From the Peterborough “Citizen.”) While the people in Woodstone district are still discussing the strange story of the “Lady in Black,” a most detailed and circumstantial account of a wraith which has
Continue ReadingPeacehaven, East Sussex (1993)
‘My poltergeist isn’t frightening, he’s just a nuisance sometimes.’ Ghost stories do not scare one Peacehaven resident who lives in a haunted house and is quite at home with her poltergeist. When the ornaments move
Continue ReadingGrape Bay, Bermuda (1944)
Mystery of Strange Noises in the Night was Never Solved. Was it a poltergeist? By Harry Rose. Sunday Royal Gazette reporter. “Poltergeist – spirit announcing its presence its presence by raps or other sound.” (Oxford
Continue ReadingBristol, Tennessee, USA (1921)
Bristol “Ghost” No Ghost At All; Just a Great Big Old Grey Rat. Five hundred rodents chased from beneath home of Marshall Godsey when police authorities use pick and shovel – experts say mother rats
Continue ReadingDanville, Virginia, USA (1921)
Visitors, Not Ghosts, Alarm Negro. Danville, Va., June 27. Jim Luck, negro, and owner of the “haunted house” on the Bradley road, near here, has appealed to the authorities for protection, preferring the harmless “spirits”
Continue ReadingKingston, nr. Layton, California (1893)
A Haunted House. The Hanford Journal says that a small house on the Whitaker and Ray ranch, one mile southeast of Kingston, is supposed to be haunted. At night unearthly noises are heard, and supernatural
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