Hollingbourne Ghost. Unseen hand that flung coal and potatoes. Bangs at night. Following the sensation caused by the announcement that a Shoreham girl, Vera Obbard, was the object of attack of some ghost or spirit
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Puducherry, India (1888)
Pondicherry is in a state of great excitement about the mysterious falling of brickbats in a house near Government House. Most of the local officials have made investigations but so far have failed to account
Continue ReadingMarylebone, London (1820)
[It’s quite hard to spot to where this refers as the road names have changed] Mysterious Case. Marlborough-Street. On Saturday an investigation which excited the greatest interest, and lasted till a very late hour,
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1912)
Bolts from the blue. Mysterious window-smashing in Bolton. (From our own correspondent). Bolton, Monday night. Mysterious window-smashing occurred at Bolton late last night and early this morning, and as no other explanation has been forthcoming
Continue ReadingUpper Gornal, West Midlands (1985)
Dr Spook goes a-haunting. Nick Parker. Brickies on a Black Country building site are getting the shakes… from a ghostly doctor! Workmen restoring an 18th century house in Upper Gornal are being plagued by a
Continue ReadingNedimala, Sri Lanka (1891)
Supernatural Phenomena. Considerable excitement is now prevailing at a village called Nedimala, near Dehiwala, owing to some supernatural phenomena taking place at a house there. The subject is being warmly discussed among the natives, and
Continue ReadingPontypool, Monmouthshire (1848)
A haunted house. IN my boyhood I used to see spirits, I suppose by a different kind of vision, for they moved and looked solid. About the year 1848, when I was sixteen years of
Continue ReadingWalscheid, Grand Est, France (1740)
[Near to Dabo, there is a place called Walscheid, and also Plaine-de-Walsch close by] Chapter XXX. Some other examples of Elves. On the 25th of August, 1746, I received a letter from a very worthy
Continue ReadingSmithfield, Dublin (1678)
A Dublin Instance, attested by Mr Daniel Williams, now in London. About the year 1678, I knew a young woman, who was niece to Alderman Arundel, in Dublin. In her said uncle’s house she was
Continue ReadingBrightling, East Sussex (c. 1690?)
X. I will next insert a late fact, not far off, which when a pious, credible person related to me, I desired him to send me the true narrative in writing when he came home,
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