Spirit “Rapping.” A strange story is current that the houses occupied by Mr Hardy, brazier, Mr Palmer, draper, and Mr Sawyer, watchmaker, situate in Narrow-street, are nightly haunted by the spirit of the late departed
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Cork, County Cork (1853)
Extraordinary Circumstance. During the past week the residents in the neighbourhood of Quaker-road have been thrown into a state of much excitement by a very singular and almost unaccountable phenomenon, which has furnished the lovers
Continue ReadingArdonald, Cairnie, Aberdeenshire (1852)
Something Mysterious. Cairnie, Dec. 18th. The good people about Ardonald, a few weeks ago, were honoured with a visit from a being of another world. Whether it was his Satanic Majesty in person, or some
Continue ReadingMilnthorpe, Cumbria (1856)
The Mysterious. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the inhabitants of Milnthorpe were in a state of considerable excitement, we may say almost astonishment and terror, in consequence of it being known that the windows
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The Cambridge “Ghost.” Last Tuesday week, about six o’clock in the evening, the family of Mr Haggis were startled by three (three is the mystical number) violent and distinct raps at the back door; on
Continue ReadingDanville, County Kilkenny (1857)
A True Ghost Story. An evil spirit, which for some time past has been indulging in very strange antics and exciting no small terror and annoyance amongst her Majesty’s lieges in a locality closely neighbouring
Continue ReadingBordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (1850)
A Young Witch. For the last three weeks an entire quarter of the town of Bordeaux has been thrown into a state of excitement, in consequence of a series of occurrences which seemed traceable to
Continue ReadingSouthwark, London (1853)
A Haunted House in Lambeth. From a Correspondent. Since Saturday last the inhabitants of Park-street, Lock’s Fields, and its surrounding neighbourhood, have been kept in a state of excitement, produced by a circumstance of somewhat
Continue ReadingStratford, Connecticut, USA (1850)
Remarkable Spiritual Manifestations In The House of The Rev. E. Phelps, D.D. Two years after the earliest manifestations in connection with modern Spiritualism began at Hydesville, U.S., strange disturbances occurred in the house of the
Continue ReadingNashmills, Hertfordshire (1850s?)
I remember a curious circumstance which occurred some few years ago at the house of a Mr Tyers, Nash Mills, a village a few miles the other side of Watford, in Hertfordshire. All of a
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