France appears to be the favorite country for spirits who like to throw stones, though such phenomena as stone-throwing have occasionally appeared in other lands. Perhaps it pleasingly recalls to the perpetrators of the mischief
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Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia (1871)
Spiritual Manifestations. Upon a marvellous story, heard with variations wherever one has gone during the last ten days, and which now constitutes the theme of discussion at many a fire-side, we may perhaps be expected
Continue ReadingNanjing, China (1877)
Nanking. The correspondent of the Shanghai Courier writes: – The surviving victims of the powder explosion last month have received from the Viceroy Tls. 4 each; while Tls. 12 have been given to the friends
Continue ReadingUlm, Germany (1870s)
Mysterious knocking and ringing continued for three years – the police baffled. The correspondent of the Revue Spirite relates, that at Ulm, in Bavaria, spirits have persistently disturbed the town by loud rapping on one
Continue ReadingKomal, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium. By T. Vijiaraghava Charlu, Esq., F.T.S. I am able to add, from personal experience, some additional facts respecting the phenomena of possession – or, as the Western people call it –
Continue ReadingThe Hague, Netherlands (1871)
I will close by giving some particulars about a case which came under my own observation (M.A.J. Riko, of the Hague, a well-known gentleman of great education, whose name is familiar to many people in
Continue ReadingCumminsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (1870)
Stones thrown by spirits. Andrew Streit, says the Cincinnati Gazette, is the name of a moderately well-to-do farmer who resides near Cumminsville, on the western side of that limpid stream, Mill Creek, and who is
Continue ReadingBrooklyn, New York, USA (1879)
Trying to trap the ghost. Six days and nights of terror in a Brooklyn tenement. Listening to the profane and vulgar voice coming from the scuttle. Mrs Scott’s vain attempt at moral suasion – A
Continue ReadingThames, New Zealand (1872)
A Haunted House at the Thames. For some days past (says the Thames Evening Star) rumours have reached us that certain very strange occurrences, or manifestations (as the Spiritists call them), have been going on
Continue ReadingDallas, Texas, USA (1878)
An Inconsiderate Ghost. The trouble caused by the unpardonable interference of a ghost is thus described in a recent issue of the Dallas (Texas) Herald: “A strange domestic disturbance exists in a family whose place
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