The Simmons family experience stone throwing and the movement of various items in their house, and are seemingly attacked by something unseen.
A coin appears in response to a policeman’s request.
Category: 1850s
Great Wheal Alfred, Cornwall (1856)
Thimble Rigging Extraordinary. A Ghost Story and its Denouement. Not very long ago the locality of Great Wheal Alfred was a very fitting one for a Ghost Story. Its untenanted, ruinous engine houses, through which
Continue ReadingRye, East Sussex (1853)
Extraordinary Affair – Rye. (From the Sussex Express) About a month since Mr Kingsland, cabinet-maker, of this town, and his wife, were greatly annoyed day after day, by having panes of glass broken in their
Continue ReadingWootton Wawen, Warwickshire (1854)
Henley-in-Arden. Spirit Rapping. The quiet village of Wootton Wawen, near this place, was the theatre of considerable excitement during the last week, owing to a reported visitation from the land of spirits. A Mrs Aldington,
Continue ReadingGalena, Illinois, USA (1856)
Mysterious “rockings.” For some ten or twelve succeeding nights past, says the Galena ‘Advertiser’, the dwelling house of a respectable gentleman in this city has been assaulted with rocks and other missiles in a most
Continue ReadingBad Bergzabern, Germany (1850s)
[Another account is of] Phillipine Senger, the magnetic girl of Bergzabern, in the Pfalz, whom Hornung visited in the hospital at Frankenthal. Her story was published by Baron Du Potet in the Journal of Magnetism,
Continue ReadingParis, France (1854)
Mr Podmore (Journal S.P.R., June, 1899) refers briefly to the stone-throwing case at Paris, reported in the Gazette des Tribunaux (February 2, 1854). The affair on February 2 had lasted for three weeks. There was
Continue ReadingIceland (1857)
There is still a lingering belief that the spirits of unbaptised children haunt the neighbourhood of their unconsecrated graves, and “to shriek like an out-buried child” has passed into a saying. We stayed in a
Continue ReadingMurree, Pakistan (1858)
Legends of the Murree Hills. The last number of the Calcutta Review contains an interesting article, by Lieutenant R.C. Temple, from which we make the following extracts: – The Sadr Bazar was built under the
Continue ReadingBarkston, Lincolnshire (1856)
Barkston. Spirit Rapping. This hitherto quiet village has for the last three weeks been in a most tremendous state of excitement, owing to a report, somewhat extensively circulated, that a supernatural manifestation occurs in one
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