Colchester. A mystery solved. A mystery, which for some time threw the parish of St Leonard’s into a state of great excitement and alarm, has been satisfactorily solved, and the superstitious, by whom the phenomenon
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (1888)
Witchcraft in Wisconsin. Sworn testimony of a farmer against an old German woman. Milwaukee, July 26. A strange case has recenly occupied the attention of the Police Court in the village of Princeton, in this
Continue ReadingEmsworth, Hampshire (1874)
Fifty Years Ago, Nov. 17, 1874. Freaks of a Ghost. A correspondent writes: “Emsworth has for the past nine or ten days been in quite a state of excitement on account of the nocturnal visits
Continue ReadingCraig Island, Trinidad and Tobago (1911)
Stone throwing diablesse at Craig Island. Weird happenings at midnight. Extraordinary experiences of a party. Here is a queer story from Craig Island and it is rare that one is told such stories in Trinidad,
Continue ReadingLondon (1831)
Strange Doings. (From a Correspondent). On Tuesday evening last, as a policeman of the D division was going his rounds, between eight and nine o’clock, he was called to by some women residing at No.
Continue ReadingHinckley, Leicestershire (1990s)
Wallpaper shop is haunted claim staff. By our resident ghost writer Helen Knott. Strange things have been going on at the Wallpaper Warehouse on the Hollycroft Road in Hinckley, according to staff who work there.
Continue ReadingLoughborough, Leicestershire (1927)
Eerie noises startle four families. Mysterious sounds in new houses. Loughboro’ ‘ghost’. Ghostly sounds at night have alarmed four families at Loughborough; they have been scared so much that they have tried, without success, to
Continue ReadingIndia (1890s?)
Enmore Stone-throwing. To the Editor. Sir, – The Enmore stone-throwing mystery recalls an incident of a similar nature which happened in the house of a friend of mine in a Moffusil [rural] town in India,
Continue ReadingEnmore, Sydney, Australia (1894)
Another case of Stone-throwing. Sydney, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Another case of stone-throwing, similar to the one which recently occurred in the Maclean district, has occurred at Enmore, where the residents of two houses had their
Continue ReadingAdamstown, New South Wales, Australia (1894)
Stone throwing at Adamstown. An extraordinary case. Alderman Jennings and family, of Gosford-road, Adamstown, have been greatly annoyed, and the safety of their persons endangered during the past three weeks, by the conduct of some
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