The Fourth Relation. Giving an account of the Daemon of Spraiton in the county of Devon, Anno, 1682. That which was published in May 1683, concerning the Daemon, or Daemons of Spraiton, was the extract
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Bristol (1638)
The First Relation An account of the troubles that happened in the house of Peter Pain, a shoe-maker, living in Mary Poel Street, in the City of Bristol, extracted out of a letter sent me
Continue ReadingLevenshulme, Manchester (1933)
Home wrecked by “ghost” Society to hold inquiry. The story of a Manchester man who was almost ruined by a ghost, which wrecked his home, terrified the occupants, and caused material damage amounting to £200
Continue ReadingNorroy-le-Veneur, Grand Est, France (1929)
Ghosts milk cows. Terror-stricken villages. The village of Norroy-le-Veneur, between Nancy and Metz, is in a state of terror (says a Central News Paris telegram). Ghosts are abroad which milk cows during the night, lock
Continue ReadingLulworth, Dorset (1825)
The Lulworth Ghost; or, Cock Lane Revived. On vulgar superstition and its firm belief in speaking shadows and apparitions we think it useless at present to descant, as the following facts, which transpired some time
Continue ReadingParis, France (1902)
The curse of a family. Quite recently in France in one of the outskirts of Paris a rumour went quickly from mouth to mouth that a particular family was haunted, and it was said that
Continue ReadingPortsmouth, New Hampshire, USA (1682)
Another providence, no less remarkable than this last mentioned, happened at Portsmouth in New England, about the same time: concerning which I have received the following account from a worthy hand. “On June 11, 1682,
Continue ReadingHartford, Connecticut, United States (1683)
I proceed to give an account of some other things lately happening in New England, which were undoubtedly praeternatural, and not without diabolical operation. The last year did afford several instances, not unlike unto those
Continue ReadingNewburyport, Massachusetts, United States (1679)
Haunted Houses. Formerly every village in New England could boast of one or more of these favoured tenements. I have, nevertheless, seen several of a most unchristian reputation in this respect, old, black, and unseemly,
Continue ReadingPorthmadog, Gwynedd (1875)
Portmadoc Jottings. Not far from my place of observation, there is a farmhouse, where lately the inhabitants have been troubled by strange moanings and other noises, leading them to think that there is in their
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