The same M. Roger, whose intentional errors M. Charpignon has pointed out in one of our previous numbers, wrote in the Constitutionnel. It seems that the population of the commune of Guillonville, canton of Orgeres,
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Swanland, East Riding of Yorkshire (1849)
… The two following letters are from Mr Bristow, now a master joiner, to Professor Sidgwick: – Stordale, Withington Road, Whalley Range, Manchester. June 27th, 1891. Dear Sir, I have pleasure in complying with your
Continue ReadingPontypool, Monmouthshire (1848)
A haunted house. IN my boyhood I used to see spirits, I suppose by a different kind of vision, for they moved and looked solid. About the year 1848, when I was sixteen years of
Continue ReadingWorcester (1848)
A ghost in the nineteenth century! Serious gossip and old-womanish alarm appears to have existed for some time past in the regions of Carden-street, in this city, and at length to have established in the
Continue ReadingKirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire (1840)
A ghost! Between the villages of Kirkby Malzeard and Galphay, and about equi-distant from each, is a lonely cottage, which, till within a week or two, has been the quiet retreat of an aged man
Continue ReadingKuressaare, Saaremaa, Estonia (1844)
Ahrensburg is the German name for Kuressaare, and Ösel another name for the Estonian island of Saaremaa. The world of mystery. A series of papers on uncanny subjects. By the Editor. Series 1 – Apparitions
Continue ReadingBicester, Oxfordshire (1848)
Bicester. A Ghost Story. For some nights mysterious noises were heard in the bed-rooms of the Bell Inn, at Bicester. At times it resembled the scratchings and gnawings of a rat, and at other times
Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1844)
A ghost story. A considerable number of elderly females which, in ungallant phraseology are styled “old women,” and a very considerable number of very young gentlemen, commonly called “little boys,” have been refreshing themselves in
Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1842)
A knocking ghost! To the Editor. Sir, – That the peasantry of Suffolk were famed of old in the use of superstitious observances, and a belief in supernatural appearances, is not so much to be
Continue ReadingGlenflesk, County Kerry (1842)
Ghostly Stratagem. Sacerdotal mummery of laying his ghostship. Discovery of the imposture. We have been for some time cognisant of the following facts which have taken place in the lands of Islandmore, near Killarney, but
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