Pebbles that rain down. According to a Western paper, a family at Akron, Ohio, are pestered by a mystery. Pebbles and stones are thrown at them by invisible hands during the day, and at night
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Surrency, Appling County, Georgia (1872)
A Georgia Sensation. From the Macon (Ga.) Enterprise, Oct. 21. On Saturday afternoon we published a brief paragraph, stating that strange and supernatural manifestations had taken place at house No. 6, Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
Continue ReadingPotters Hill, Birmingham (1876)
Stone-Throwing Extraordinary. About a month since, writes a correspondent, one of those unaccountable cases of stone-throwing occurred at a house situate at Potter’s Hill, Aston, and in the occupation of Mr Dolman, coal merchant, causing
Continue ReadingBaldock, Hertfordshire (1878)
Considerable alarm has been felt by the younger portion of the inhabitants of Baldock, by the rumour that a real live ghost was haunting a house at the top of the High-street. A large number
Continue ReadingHorspath, Oxfordshire (1873)
Seasonable and startling intelligence has just reached me from Horspath, a quiet but somewhat isolated village, well-known to many of your readers as situated within a couple of miles of the Wheatley railway station and
Continue ReadingCalais, Hauts-de-France (1875)
A French Ghost. There is a ghost in Calais, or rank sorcery, or wicked powers of some sort working. In that town dwells a certain Topham, who keeps a factory. In front of the factory
Continue ReadingCuneo, Piedmont, Italy (1879)
A Haunted House. The Roman correspondent of Saunders writes:- There is, it is said, a haunted house at Cuneo, at least so says the Gazette of Turin. Like in most Italian houses, there are many
Continue ReadingWolverhampton, West Midlands (1870)
For some days past the household of Mr Newey, pawnbroker, Stafford-street, Wolverhampton, has been affrighted by unaccountable knockings, and other noises in various parts of the house, and, from the inability of the family to
Continue ReadingStorrs, Stannington, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (1878)
A Modern Ghost. During the last few days the doings of a certain mysterious ghost have caused considerable alarm among the good people of Storrs, a hamlet on the borders of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire
Continue ReadingTrenant Girt, Egloshayle, Wadebridge, Cornwall (1873)
The Wadebridge Ghost. For some time past a tale has been current among the superstitious of Wadebridge and neighbourhood, that a house situated in Trenant Gurt, in the parish of Egloshayle, is haunted by night.
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