A Salisbury Ghost Story of 1669. The following succinct and circumstantial narration of an occurrence at Salisbury, nearly 200 years since, is recorded in a contemporaneous M.S. of the period: – Some particular circumstances concerning
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Blantyre, South Lanarkshire (1663)
The haunting of Blantyre Craig. There is a remarkable and well-authenticated tale of ghostly perambulations attached to the old buildings. The story dates from the time of the 4th Lord Blantyre and his good
Continue ReadingHrabusice, Slovakia (1666)
[Upper Hungary is now mainly Slovakia. This page suggests Kabsdorff is what is now Hrabusice.] Persecution of the Pastor of Kabsdorff. The evangelical clergyman, Gunther, of Kabsdorff, in Upper Hungary, in 1666, was greatly persecuted
Continue ReadingBleddfa, Powys (1666)
A Bleddfa Ghost. An old story recalled. A correspondent in the “Hereford Times,” recalls an old story of strange doings at Bleddfa, as follows:- “In a certain house there, occupied then (in or about the
Continue ReadingBurton, Weobley, Herefordshire (1669)
The Daemon of Burton or A true relation of strange witchcrafts or incantations lately practised at Barton in the Parish of Weobley in Herefordshire. Certified in a letter from a person of credit in Hereford.
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The Daemon of Tidworth. A house at Tidworth (the same, I believe, that was lived in by the Poore family,) had been, before their time, the property of a previous family, of the name of
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