Spiritualism in France. The two extraordinary narratives we are now about to present to our readers are furnished by A.J. Riko, Esq., of the Hague, and although their substance is to be found in several
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Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (1839)
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Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1838)
Ghost Story. The following story appears in the Suffolk Chronicle, and upon inquiry of the last occupier of the house, the statements are confirmed, with the exception of those which we have printed in italics-
Continue ReadingDewsbury, West Yorkshire (1835)
Dewsbury. Novel Method of Ejectment. During the last week, the inhabitants of Dewsbury and its neighbourhood have been labouring under great excitement, terror, and alarm, on account of a house, situated at Kilncroft, Dewsbury, occupied
Continue ReadingWirksworth, Derbyshire (1834)
A profitable ghost. During the past week Mr Lowe, landlord of the Tiger public house, at Wirksworth, has been greatly alarmed by a noise in one of the sleeping rooms, similar to the hopening and
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 ReadingManchester (1835)
A Ghost Story. At the latter end of last and the commencement of the present week, the most strange stories were told of a ghost that had fixed its nightly abode in the office of
Continue ReadingShepshed, Leicestershire (1839)
A Grammatical Ghost. For some time past, the inhabitants of Sheepshead have been greatly alarmed – not at the armed Chartists, but at something more etherial, though, by the way, most persons are of opinion,
Continue ReadingLiverpool (1835)
A Real Destructive. In the middle of the day, on Wednesday last, the neighbourhood of Trueman-street was in a state of extraordinary excitement, in consequence of an occurrence rather mysterious. The alarm was first occasioned
Continue ReadingTrinity, Edinburgh (1835)
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World, by Robert Dale Owen. … ‘The Lawsuit’ is the title of a narrative of disturbances in a house near Edinburgh. We quote at length:- A certain Captain Molesworth,
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