Spirit Communion Eighty Years Ago. Mr Charles Corliss, of Boston, Mass. I have a fact to relate which happened about eighty years ago. My grandfather, Mr Joshua Corliss, who lived in New Hampshire, not far
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Liverpool (1800s?)
Supernatural Window breaking. Our readers may recollect what a panic was excited a few years ago, by the mysterious breaking of windows in a house in John street, in this town. The house was an
Continue ReadingMyton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire (1804)
More food for superstition. A singular occurrence has recently taken place at Mytton Old Hall, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire. This house had for a considerable time been untenanted, owing to a rumour very generally circulated in
Continue ReadingPalacu w Sławięcicach, Poland (Slawensick Castle) (1808)
The account is taken from the German book “The Seeress of Prevorst” by Dr Justinus Kerner, translated by Mrs “Nightside of Nature” Crowe in 1845. https://archive.org/details/seeressofprevors00kern/page/274/mode/2up?q=kern Councillor Hahn of Ingelfingen, wrote down this account in
Continue ReadingBlackshaw Head, West Yorkshire (1804)
A singular, yet melancholy, accident lately happened at Blackshaw, near Stansfield. The following are the particulars, which plainly demonstrate that the age of superstition is not yet passed. An aged man, of the name of
Continue ReadingLlangynwyd, Bridgend (1800s)
The Ghost of Pentre. (Pentre farm is but a short distance to the north-west of the Parish Church). At the beginning of the present century there was quartered at Pentre Farm house, then occupied by
Continue ReadingWorcester (1802)
Worcester, Feb. 17. A circumstance of rather a singular nature has recently occurred in this city, which we are induced to make public, in order that similar impositions, should they be attempted, may the more
Continue ReadingSawston, Cambridgeshire (1804)
Remarkable occurrence. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Cambridge, Oct. 7. 1804. Sir, The threat of invasion, and the “dreadful” firing off Boulogne, have been so often repeated in the papers as to have
Continue ReadingPortsmouth, Hampshire (1800)
Original? account in Hampshire Telegraph 5th of May 1800 (broken link) The following most extraordinary circumstance is said to have happened at Portsmouth, on Sunday and Monday sennight; for the truth of it we
Continue ReadingLark Hall (Burradon), Alwinton, Northumberland (1800)
The Haunted House. The narrative of the haunted house near Cardross is curious. It recalls to recollection a similar story affecting a farm house named Larkhall, situated on the English side of the Border, in
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